Wanting to be prepared and give ourselves the best chance of success, we scouted the site. Two weeks before the hunt began, we made the 45 minute trip north on Interstate 75 to the exit for Cecil Webb. As you exit the superhighway and head west it is only a matter of a quarter mile or so until the paved road ends management area begins. Our mission was to find our spot, the spot, where the deer would be when we returned. Finding signs of deer activity is easy.
Tracks are the most obvious sign.
Fresh scat or deer droppings, two of the more polite terms for deer poop are another sign that deer are active in an area. We did a quick survey of the land and decided that a couple of fingers of land around the beautiful five mile long Webb Lake were likely to be holding some deer. What attracted us to these fingers of land was the patches of burned and unburned land adjacent to each other. The unburned land, a pine-palmetto flatwoods, is prefect daytime cover for the deer. As a part of the overall management of Cecil Webb, the Commission does a considerable amount of prescribed burning.