Updated Deer Condo Pics!

We finished the shooting windows, carpet, and painted the deer hunting condo today. This baby is ready to hunt!

Also here is an updated pic of the food plot looking out the front window of the hunting blind. Green Patch Plus:

We also put in some deer utilization cages to monitor deer browsing on many of the food plots. If the plants grow better in the cages it means the deer are browsing the plots pretty heavy. If the plots grow poorly in the cages and poorly out of the cages it means something is not quite right either with the soil, seeds, weather, etc.

Also we are turning this 30 acre lake into a 55 acre lake. Very cool project, we are putting in a dam that is 160 yards long and 6 feet high. Raising the lake this level will connect another 8 acre lake with a dug trench and flood quite a bit of other area as well! Raising water absolutely makes fish populations grow HUGE! Everytime we flood a pond or lake, the fish grow like weeds. Here are some construction pics:

Was a good day! Been jampacked since 6 am this morning, I just wish there was more time in the day. I also met with Brad Belser of Bradley Blinds to go over a few goose pit locations. Tomorrow I head out to Southern Illinois to electrofish a handful of lakes on a mini road trip. Next week I will be starting to move some fish into their new homes, electrofishing a few lakes locally, holding a flyfishing day at the fishing park on Saturday, and heading up north Salmon fishing with In-Fisherman guy Steve Ryan on Sunday. I will stay up north sunday night and do a full lake audit with electrofishing survey up near Chicago on monday morning for a big lake association before heading home.