Got soaked yesterday hunting a few previously hot pockets around Hope. Some of these spots never seem to dry up but I give them a try a few times a season and been lucky in them in the past years but nothing yet there this year. Walk into a spot - nothing - walk back to the truck wet - drive to the next spot - walk in a couple hundred yards - nothing - move onto next. Took my buddy and he's thinking I'm nuts doing this but it's what I do in this area. It's not an easy drag so I only walk in off the road as far as I'm willing to drag a deer out.

Cold and wet, we decide to pull into town to get a hot coffee and heck, the dang urban deer are standing around eating grass at the gas station.

Another hunter pulls up and we start laughing as this was awesome. Deer took a coffee break before we did.