Hi guys!
Thanks again for all the advice you gave which were really helpful! Finally we ended up hunting the Northwoods in Bayfield county. We stayed in a small camp with some nice cabins with lake view.
Due to different reasons we couldn't get up there before monday evening so we missed opening weekend. We got some good map material from the WDNR and also de National Forest administration. Everybody was very helpful and friendly.
The first few days we spent more scouting and looking for interesting spots. From the hunting point of view this wasn't very effective due to the dry leafs and branches. Everyone -especially deer- must have heard us from miles away. Although we saw a couple of hunters in the area, we didn't run into other hunters too often. Surely we picked the places to scout carefully considering car and human tracks (which was easy due to the snow that had fallen during opening weekend).
From wednesday on we had the impression that the greater part of hunters had left to spend Thanksgiving with their families.
After having found an interesting area of approximately 5 square miles which included a couple of lakes partially connected by creeks, a couple of swampy areas some old oak stands and some younger stands with pines and beech as well as few maple trees we concentrated on this particular area.
As anticipated by a couple of forum users we didn't see much at first, but according to the numerous deer tracks and the droppings we knew that deer were around. As posted in this thread before: hunting up there was physically but also psychologically demanding and sometimes after being out there for hours without even seeing a deer you start wondering what you're doing wrong...
Finally I managed to shoot a buck fawn on saturday morning.
So, overall it was a great week and we did fall in love with the Northwoods! We'll try to be back for next years gun season - this time hopefully a couple of days before opening weekend in order to do some proper scouting as well as be there for kick off.
Thanks again for your advice and many greetings!
Last edited by Tati; 11-29-2011 at 08:03 PM.