Doe season and the rain in FL

[freedomhunter]

Well yesterday my jeep flooded, my block floated out from my back yard to the street, and the roads where shin to knee deep in water.  I think my doe season this week is pretty much over before it even started.  Before this rain it was 86 degrees for the high.  I have a feeling my hunting grounds, which is a cedar swamp and very low, is now full of water.  This rain should stop mid-day and I am thinking on going out.  Who knows the deer may have been bedded down all night and this a.m. due to the rain and wind.  

Anyone have experience with swamp hunting.  Is the fact it was dry and now probably ankle shin deep going to change everything.

[KenH]

Hunted swampy areas for years.  In the conditions like we're having (I'm in Fort Myers and the rains hit at 2 this morning) the deer will sit tight until things start to clear up a bit.  Once the sun comes out, so will they.

[ChuckC]

See if you can find high areas, like inches higher.  Up here (Wisconsin marshes) you can tell because trees will grow on the high spots, again, only inches higher than the marsh.  These tend to be funnel areas and the deer travel thru them frequently.
ChuckC

[freedomhunter]

LOL, I didn't mean cedar swamp....Cypress is the word I was looking for.  This is what happens before coffee.  Thanks for your replies.

[The Ole' Bowhunter]

If you hunt in Green Swamp then I am positive you'll be knee-deep or more in water. I've never hunted deer there but I do bowhunt Osceola's there in the spring but have yet to shoot one.
Anyway, I hope you get a chance to bowhunt somewhere...good luck.

[swampdrummer]

Ken nailed it I believe, They will pretty much stay hunkered down while this front passed through but I got in my stand at 2:30 this afternoon and had deer and pigs moving around me almost immediately. The standing water, as long as its not chest deep shouldn't have much effect on deer movement.

[Medic85]

Sure has been nasty here.  The water shouldn't hold too very long but I doubt the mud will dry up for a while.  Doubt the deer will mind either I've seen several walking through the water.

[Sam McMichael]

Even if high water drove them out, they will return.