Hey Burly,
I'm N and S of US 10 around the Walhalla/Branch area. Owned a cottage on Long Lake from 2000 to June 2017 when we sold it. I now stay across the street from my old cottage in my former neighbors cottage during Oct/Nov Archery season as they are from Chicago and I watch their place during archery season as they don't come up often in the Fall. Being retired I hunt mostly Monday - Thursday and leave the weekends to the locals and the weekend hunters. I'm out of the woods by Nov. 15 when the Orange Army takes over the forest.
Have a brother on Lake Mitchell, but he's not a hunter or fisherman. Quads, jet skis and pontoon boats are his thing in the summer and then he's off to winter in Sun City West, AZ. How are the deer numbers in the Cadillac area?