I’m breaking down how I approach a thermal hub and how I differentiate between the type of thermal hubs. How I use my cameras to get the most accurate intel to build a plan to ambush a mature buck in these hubs.
I drop milkweed all the time while scouting for the right spot to set up but as a whole I don’t really understand how far my scent may go before it loops around or lifts or falls. I don’t understand the big picture of wind moving thru the hills. I understand it flows like water but from my experience that’s not entirely true because of air temperatures.
Awesome video! I think this will work great for Blacktails and even Muleys/Elk species here in Oregon! I have a lot of these little hubs I've been into and have been able to figure out how the deer will move through them, but have been stumped on where to put a stand!! Tons of similarities, especially when you break it down to the blank slate of winds/beds/rubs/stand !!!
Thank you for these teachings I’ve had a tuff time understanding this topic but listening to you is helping me to beginning to get an understanding of hubs and thermal I’ve listened to many explain this and I always end up scratching my head in confusion the way you explain things I feel that with time I can understand to the fullest on how to hunt thermal hubs thank you so much for your content.
Forgive me, but I’m kinda confused. Is the head of the beginning of the thermal hub at the top (highest elevation)? I know I should be able to tell this by the contour lines but I’m have a bit of trouble. I’m assuming that it is at the top?
The part about waiting till the thermals start dropping makes sense but I have heard that the dominant wind direction can dump into those thermal hubs and create a bowl effect and make the wind swirl. Have you encountered this? Do you only hunt these set ups on calm days or wind speed under a certain mph?
So are bucks more focused on thermals over wind direction when in hubs like this? Also how important are feed trees like white oaks during the early season in a system like this. Would you still focus on this hub if there was no oaks dropping?
Yes most definitely. In these hubs, thermals are the key. You got to imagine being able to get the scent information from an entire hub area rather than just the information coming from a within a wind cone direction. It’s a no brained for a mature buck. As for feed trees I don’t use feed trees as a component of these hubs. I rarely see dedicated feed trees anywhere in my area. There’s just so many huge areas of oaks dropping that it’s hard to nail down a specific spot. Now if you’re in an area where you have limited oaks dropping and feed trees are part of the equation. I’m sure they would have a role. The really top level hubs that I see have a very strong presence of high stem count areas around them.
