Originally posted by lpcjon2:
Get hip waders and find a funnel of dry narrow land between two areas of water and get ready to shoot.
Down here where there is a lot of swamp, that is kind of counter intuitive. You have to treat water like dry land, because the deer won't go out of the way to avoid it unless it is an open area, such as crossing a river. Deer go through water pretty readily.
So, if you find a strip of land that is thick and the water is open, then your advice holds, but if you find that the water is thick with willows and the woods are more open, then the water might be the best place to set up.