interesting read...reminds me of salmon and their crazy intuition.

I know nothing about deer (or female intuition for that matter) but... could other female deer have excreted some kind of stress pheremone over a period of time along the deer trails and electric fence? that in turn has triggered other female deer to do the same over the years?

I don't think most give enough credit to bass and they're ability to learn and evolve. As most know Florida strain by nature are not supposed to school up however you take away their cover,add some water clarity,and drop the water 20'- 200' and you force them into evolving.

And then there's the bass spawn...females know instinctively to return to the same area they did the year before but will pull off with the dropping water level,boat pressure,climate etc... I witnessed the same thing at Clear lake as Rob and at Pardee this year. Pardee had way fewer beds up shallow which could be attributed to either the pressure or extended spawn.

All I know is I tell myself the fish are harder to catch because most of you have already caught them!