I have good luck getting to my spot early opening morning. I get in pretty deep so the guys that walk the ridges push the deer back to me where it's thick and swampy. Last year on opening day I killed a nice buck that was pushed off the ridges, he was just sneaking through the knee high grass in the old dried up beaver pond that I have hunted over the last five years. Three bucks in the last five years to me is pretty good on public land.
If you can find some public land that borders some nearby agriculture fields that usually makes for some good hunting.