the White tail Crappie...

My uncle and I were fishing for Crappie on Sayer's Lake when I was in my early 20's and we were both still single and kidless...so we fished alot. So here we are, fishing in our little John Boat, warm evening about an hour before dark...caught a few here and there, but things were pretty calm...and we were about 300 yds from the shore line....when all of a sudden, out of no where, about 12 yds from the boat, up pops the head of a White tail Deer! A doe, who apparently swam from the other side of the lake underwater! She pops up, swims about 8 feet from the boat, right thru where we were fishing, over to the water's edge, pops up on the bank, shakes off the water, looks at us and then mosey's on into the woods.

My uncle and I just stared at each other...and then he says "glad we didn't catch her, she's not in season anyhow".

My son and his girlfriend had a similar experience. They were in a jonboat on Lake Dardenelle and going trough an inlet. They saw 3 deer on the bank as they went by. They went on for a little ways and decided to turn around. As they were coming back they saw something in the water. As they got closer, they realized they were the deer they had seen earlier. They slowed the boat down and stayed far enough away from them to not spook them and watched them as they got out of the water on the other side. Unfortunately, they did not have a camera. Have never seen anything like that.

Here's one that swam by me last spring...acted like he was out for his regular morning swim......I bet he had a real nice rack by fall time.

I chased them once with my boat~~ Had to guide them into the right direction as they got spooked by me and swan in all directions.... ^^

Back when we were in our teens, two friends and I saw a four point buck swimming across a lake. We were in a jon boat. Got up beside so we could grab the antlers. MISTAKE. The deer put his feet agains the boat and shoved off, hard. Almost turned us over. We did take in water. Another leason learned while young and dumb.

nice pictures but they could not do that down here to long

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I knew that deer did stuff like that but had never seen any doing it. Nice pic. Thanks