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Post by nuthinfancy on May 2, 2024 14:50:59 GMT -5
Just read that there are 27,000 acres in palm beach county alone producing sweet corn. Obviously corn is one of the most beloved crops of whitetails, so why don’t you hear of anyone hunting, or even deer existing down in cane country? Do they control them like pests, just not want the word to get out for fear of poachers, combo of both? I do hear of folks running dogs for hogs down that way once in a while.
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Post by meateater on May 2, 2024 15:23:38 GMT -5
this is south florida, just go on a spring or summer hog hunt on one of our wmas, take a look at the number of non english or barely english speaking guys running around with AR,S with 30 round magazines and trucks with flo grown and yeti stickers on back window. would you open your property to the general public. i got access to a couple places for coyotes and hogs but deer are always handled by the owners,close friends or employees.
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Post by nuthinfancy on May 2, 2024 15:58:56 GMT -5
Lmao yeah I get not wanting general access. You would think if the deer hunting was half decent there would at least be a field or two for lease. You know the Cubanos would pay top dollar to drive up and have something to shoot at. I haven’t been down that way in years so like I said I don’t even know if there are deer around. That article brought it up to mind though. When people think whitetails they often think of the Midwest and corn or soybeans and apparently with there being similar agricultural south of the lake would have some fat FL deer
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Post by swampdog on May 2, 2024 16:45:50 GMT -5
I do believe they’re harvesting that sweet corn now and it will be replaced with another crop time deer season rolls around. I’m betting the Midwest is still weeks away from planting. A lot of seed corn is planted later in the year in the SE that attracts deer into the standing and harvested corn.
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Post by One Man Gang on May 3, 2024 7:04:54 GMT -5
Well, if any of you remember Browns Farm WMA, you'll know what good public deer hunting is. That little 3000 acre paradise used to give up 100 bucks each season and some were really nice.
The SFWMD killed them all and we lost a wonderful place with excellent access; all in the name of "restoration" and "clean" water. Area 3A north, Holey Land, and Rotenberg are next up on the deer eradication check list for South Florida. It should be a mecca for the python population until they're out of food and forced to migrate North and east.
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Post by pinman on May 3, 2024 10:53:41 GMT -5
My son worked the sweet corn down there for a while. Very very few Deer in the thick of the corn around Belle Glade, South Bay and south of there. Some but still not many around Clewiston and Moore Haven. I think they need a bit of woods close by even if its just sawgrass willows and myrtles. Ive seen Deer in cut cane fields but there were woods close by. And there arent too many large animals that consist of meat surviving very long around Belle Glade....
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Post by TRTerror on May 4, 2024 17:07:49 GMT -5
I hunted it all...
35 years worth. I well remember my Pards saying to me when we first started hunting the Big Bend..Dry Ground , This is Cool.
I'd never seen a real Scrape till then. Hard to make a Scrape in a foot or more of water.
You can have it...I'll be hunting the Bend till I die. Deer in my front yard nightly.
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Post by One Man Gang on May 4, 2024 17:49:32 GMT -5
I'm not far behind you TRT. I have been lucky enough to hunt deer from Miami to Honolulu and frankly, the hunting is harder from lake O south than anywhere I've been. However, there will always be a special place inside that holds the cypress dear to me, and I'm sure to you.
I gave up on it pretty much in the late 80s in favor of bull creek and 3L. Now it's all a colossal mess out there to me.
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Post by floridahunt on May 5, 2024 21:07:14 GMT -5
Just talk but I heard deer were seen behind glades day not long ago
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Post by gator4ever on May 9, 2024 14:52:41 GMT -5
Ok guys this is going to take yall back
I grew up in Belle Glade 60s 70s and 80s left for college and a better future after that.
Why arent there deer in the sweet corn fields?
Simple geography the corn is grown close to town where labor and the mule trains can get to the fields easier.
The first deer you will run into south of South Bay are where the western STAs start there is a levee on the North side that is full of deer. If I was 20 years younger this is where i would hunt. Is it legal to hunt there? Hell if I know its not posted so shoot and ask for forgiveness if the man sees you.
There has never been ANY deer north of there not in 60 years. There used to be a few on the east side of 27 but ag decimated the wild lands.
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