Standing around listening to a couple friends talk about working ridge tops, scouting the valleys below, circling grass field looking for ditches and drains.

Alright! What lake we fishing I ask?

Deer hunting comes back the reply!

Y'all ever notice the similarities between bass fishing & hunting?

All the time.

Have you ever listened to members of a lake association complain how the fishing went down hill, and they didn't think that spraying all the weeds had anything to do with it?

My response is always to point out how many deer live in the woods as compared to live in the middle of a field.  Most never get it.

Yep, it's all about corners, bends, cover, drains, bottoms, ridges, humps, food. Reguardless of the prey, it all goes back to the basics.

I've been a serious deer hunter longer than I've been a serious fisherman and it's amazing how they travel/migrate using the same type of structure. It's all about survival and all wild critters have it figured out.

very similar, hunting is like fishing while being underwater with the fish. Oh and catch and release becomes very hard to do lol, unless pictures and video count for that

Here is my thought. Do the bass use the structure and cover like a deer? Don't Deer use cover and structure in a defensive manor for concealment to avoid preditors?

Or, are bass more like the Mountain Lion that stalks and intercepts the deer at vulnerable ambush points? Both use the structure and cover to their advantage. But for slightly different reasons. So is it better to think like the hunter or the hunted? Or maybe both?

As a quail hunter, I look for edges. Edge is generally considered the boundary between two habitat types, such as nesting cover and a cropfield, pasture, or woodland. It's very similar to the transition areas between deep and shallow water.

Here is my thought. Do the bass use the structure and cover like a deer? Don't Deer use cover and structure in a defensive manor for concealment to avoid preditors?

Or, are bass more like the Mountain Lion that stalks and intercepts the deer at vulnerable ambush points? Both use the structure and cover to their advantage. But for slightly different reasons. So is it better to think like the hunter or the hunted? Or maybe both?

According to some In-Fisherman books bass use the cover for both predation and protection depending on the size of the other fish in the lake.  In lakes with large Pike and Muskies there aren't as many pelagic bass.  They tend to not venture as far from the outside weedline or from cover due to these larger predators. 

Yes Catt, but fishing is so much more fun.

I just can't sit in a deer stand and listen to the leaves fall, the squirrels play, see the turkeys fly around me and just wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for a good shot.

At least with fishing you are moving, using your brain, being challenged every minute, and it is you against a very crafty prey.

I'll take fishing over hunting any day. 

When I deer hunt it's seldom in a permanent stand or blind, I prefer the true form of hunting known as stalking. Like bass fishing one must figure out where the deer feeding areas, bedding areas, migration routes & then figure out when they will be where.

One definite difference is with bass fishing one must also know their spawning areas

Not so much with deer

What do deer and Less Miles have in common?

They both eat grass!!!!

OK, so it is clover but close enough. 

Humans do the same thing follow valleys etc to find food, shelter other humans

haha.  Yes.  That's why a lot of fisherman default to hunting when the season's off.  Funny stuff there Catt!!

Fishing is way more fun I agree with Sam.

Juicy Joyce over and out.

Yea I am more of a fisherman but I do enjoy my hunting. Also another predator a bass has against it anywhere is predatory birds. I see birds with bass in their talons all the time when fishing. But yea I think animals kind of think the same. For instance When my dog is really active in the morning like running around and playing in a cheerful mood then I usually see deer moving.

Yup.

Procreation, the rut or the spawn is a major factor in both hunting and fishing. Hunters seem to understand the importance of protecting females, some anglers don't.

To know the location and feeding habits of a predator, you must study the prey/food source.

Shade lines are a key factor with deer and bass movement.

Good topic.

WRB

that ditch is where were setting up this season. we found many big rubs and deer trails that looked like 6 lane highways.

lastly, the only way there is by boat or a 7 mile walk.

I think the real deer hunting is out in California, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, etc. I cant stand the white tail hunting crap where they freaking drive out onto a ranch get out of their truck walk 500 yards to a blind and pick from one of 10 6 by 6s nail it drive their truck over to it throw it in the back and they're done. Like out here, lets say zone X12 for instance, you go out and camp for a few days,and during that time you are hiking uphill mostly through sage brush for 8 plus miles at 9000 feet elevation in the high sierra desert.carrying your extra 20 or 30 pounds of gear to get a chance at a muley and if you do get one you drag the 200 plus pounds all the way back to your camp through the distance you just traveled or you clean it where you shot it and backpack it back to camp and hang it in a tree to air out. Thats the manly, serious way if you ask me

But aside from my little opinion right there lol Yes hunting and fishing are very alike in a lot of ways.You can use hunting habitat and areas for models to relate to bass fishing

very well

If I could hunt deer year round and if we had the population to support it, I wouldn't fish very much.

You think fishing in general and hunting is similar? Try comparing trophy hunting for big bass and and trophy hunting for deer. They are even more similar and to be succesful at either one you have to compensate for the human element, preasure! Or at least where I am hunting/fishing

I thought trophy deer hung out by the houses. ;D