RE: lets see your plots!
bigwhitetailbuck -
If you fall plant clover - you cannot expect a whole lot to hunt over that year. Some guys mix in oats or winter oats - so there is some fall attraction..................but a fall planted clover plot will flourish the following spring if all its conditions are satisfied.
Fall planted clover plots are generally more weed free - because the dormant weedseeds germinate - and many many of them are annuals, and die back before they can ever drop more seeds. All this adds up to a more weed free field in the spring when the clover takes off.
Us hunters are an impatient lot......... and fall planted clover plots are tough to do because we like to hunt around them that first season. If you can be patient (don't mix in a lot of other stuff that will haunt your clover plot the next years) - then its a good plan.
Lastly - In some areas - you can plant clover in the summer and do well. Granted - you probably cannot get away with it in south Texas or Georgia - but in the Northeast for example, where we get 4" of rain in July many years - clover can do just fine. Sometimes I July Plant with Brassicas.
FH