sassafraspete
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Ok, my neighbor who has an even bigger deer in the garden problem than I , is trying out some monfiliment fishing line this year...to suppliment his usual fence.
I happened to be gone a couple days last week and the deer paid my beans a visit. In lieu of constructing an electric fence, I hastily strung up some fishing line around one of my gardens.
Having some success with that, I visited wally world and picked up some cheap fishing line for my garden that is in my back field. I put in my electric fence posts, and strung some a couple of lines. In a couple of days, I found a breach in the top line. To my surprise, looks like the deer was spooked and just ran thru ( by distance of prints )...and didn't browse.
On my garden close to the house, I saw where a deer visited, but just at the edge. Looks like it started browing on the beans at the edge, but pushed against the fishing line, and went no further.
So will fishing line work? My neighbor says the theory is they can't see it, and it spooks them when they feel it .
So then the question .... is what lb test do I use to catch a deer? I think my first garden has 14 lb test....a good bass line. I went with catfish line on my second garden... 50 lb test. Is smaller better or bigger better?
Just fishing for deer in Brown County, Indiana.
I have attached a picture of my fence.
sassafraspete
I happened to be gone a couple days last week and the deer paid my beans a visit. In lieu of constructing an electric fence, I hastily strung up some fishing line around one of my gardens.
Having some success with that, I visited wally world and picked up some cheap fishing line for my garden that is in my back field. I put in my electric fence posts, and strung some a couple of lines. In a couple of days, I found a breach in the top line. To my surprise, looks like the deer was spooked and just ran thru ( by distance of prints )...and didn't browse.
On my garden close to the house, I saw where a deer visited, but just at the edge. Looks like it started browing on the beans at the edge, but pushed against the fishing line, and went no further.
So will fishing line work? My neighbor says the theory is they can't see it, and it spooks them when they feel it .
So then the question .... is what lb test do I use to catch a deer? I think my first garden has 14 lb test....a good bass line. I went with catfish line on my second garden... 50 lb test. Is smaller better or bigger better?
Just fishing for deer in Brown County, Indiana.
I have attached a picture of my fence.
sassafraspete