If you haven’t spotted drinking animals by the time you’re in a position to see the entire shore, move a few yards right or left and look again to see if they’re behind trees.
Start crouch walking once you’re within 125-150m of the shore line. Approach the lake from the downwind side during drink time. The lakes themselves are small enough you can usually scout the entire shoreline in under a minute. Most of the WT on the little lakes drink within 25m of the water. The WT on the smaller lakes are usually easiest to find, so you probably want to start there. ALL lakes to the south of that (except maybe the crater lake on Mt Leviathan) potentially have at least one small band of WT. Where/how to actually look for WT drink zones?ĭraw an imaginary horizontal line across the map about 4/5ths of the way to the top. An abandoned or deleted zone means you’ll have to spend additional time figuring out where they went. The zone might still show up on the map, but sometimes the animals will either start using a different spot in that zone or move to another area altogether. Even if you don’t actually generate enough pressure to delete the zone, having constant daily hunting pressure in an area can cause animals to abandon a zone and relocate. Shooting all animals that use a zone will also delete it. 4 rifle kills in the same place will delete any zones in the immediate area unless you’re shooting from a hunting structure. It can take 3-7 game days for animals to respawn into a zone, so make sure to rotate zones frequently and rest them long enough to repopulate. Sometimes a doe will respawn into a zone that had only a single buck before, turning it into a doe-only zone so you’re back to square one. If you’ve moved a doe out of that zone to make room for a buck, the doe will pop up somewhere else, and often somewhere you don’t want one. The overall male/female ratio seems to stay balanced though. Sometimes one of them will shuffle locations when they respawn. In that case, you can shoot a couple does out of a doe-only zone and shoot a couple bucks out of a zone with too many. I’d only start shooting them if your herds get segregated to the point where you start getting herds with 4 or more bucks. They’re usually just replaced by other does. Opinions vary a bit, but most people who’ve put in the hours to have an informed opinion consider shooting does to be mostly pointless if you’re just after trophy bucks. A new drink zone will usually populate close to the one you just deleted, and you’ll have to devote more scouting time to find it. I personally don’t think that works very well. Some people will deliberately delete zones that are too far off their regular route. They are very spread out, so you need tents and some planning to bag more than a handful or two during one drink period.
There are usually whitetails literally everywhere else that has water. I’ve heard of people finding them at the crater lake on Mt Leviathan, but I haven’t seen any there. I haven’t seen many on the lakes in the northern 1/5th of the map, although I’m a little less than 100% certain that none exist there at least for some people. Not saying there can’t be any there, but I haven’t seen any. I haven’t seen a single whitetail on the coastline or river bank on the far right side of the map. It’s easier to start with where you won’t find them. There are whitetail drink zones all over the place. People who’ve located a few zones, but want to find more in may also find it useful.
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This guide is intended to help newer players who don’t know where or how to start looking for whitetail drink zones at Layton Lakes.
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