OT - fishline to keep deer out?

relaurain · Jun 30, 2009

Saw a posting stating that if you put fishing line about three feet off the ground, it would keep deer out. Has anyone done this with any success? I have planted sweet corn and don't want the deer having a buffet!!

hay · Jun 30, 2009

save yer fishing line fer fishing. dust the corn with sevin-5 dust and the deer won't touch it. neither will raccons or squrirrels. of course a shotgun works good also.

Kruse · Jun 30, 2009

Borrow your neighbor's dog and tie him up around your corn at a different spot each night.

Bob · Jun 30, 2009

I'd put more faith in an electric fence wire strung around the corn patch.

A second wire 5 to 8 inches off of the ground will keep the coons out, as well.

MarkB_MI · Jun 30, 2009

I don't know about a single strand three feet off the ground, but it definitely helps to add a couple strands on top of a fence. When I fenced in my wife's garden, I'd heard that it worked so I left the corner posts extra-tall but didn't add the fishing line. The fence is about five feet tall, and for the first year the deer stayed out. But by fall the second year the deer were jumping right over it and even laying down in the garden. So I added two strands of 50 pound test monofilament about 6 feet and 7-1/2 feet off the ground. No more deer problems.

37 chief · Jun 30, 2009

Maybe if the line was hooked to some tin cans so it made some noise. I had trouble with crows in my watermellons. I put some T posts around my patch and strung fish line back and forth between the posts. After they hit the line a few times they stayed out of the mellons. stan

MNLonnie · Jun 30, 2009

I know a few people who use it and say it works. When they touch it they feel it but can't see it and they get spooked.

jCarroll · Jun 30, 2009

We put fishline about 5' high after we saw deer in the garden.
Did not have any damage after the fishline - or see any deer. I don't know if it worked, or if the deer found better eating elsewhere.

Hugh MacKay · Jun 30, 2009

relaurain: Human urine, stops them every time. Fill large coffee cans with human urine, set them at various places around perimeter of the corn patch. Stops most wild life.

There must be 30 deer hang out within a 1/2 mile radius of my garden, about a month ago they sampled my peas and spinach. I was ready with coffee cans full. Out went the coffee cans, haven't seen a deer track since, no more nibbling either, not even a rabbit.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 30, 2009

If you need help filling all those 2 pound coffee cans,post here for volenteers and have cold drinks ready,I like anything with a picture of an eagle on the container.

Fergienewbee · Jul 1, 2009

I ran a single strand of 10# monofilament around my food plots. Before the line, the deer went right down a row of cow peas; since the line no more damage. I have a fire break planted to cow peas and they may have found those easier picking. I"m thinking of enclosing the heaviest damage with fishing line just as a test. But the fishing line does seem to work.

Larry in Michigan

LA in WI · Jul 1, 2009

Sevin? Wow.
1. Sevin kills every honey bee within flying range...and maybe further. You really want that?
2. Sevin is NOT labeled for food for humans.

I use 3 strands of electric fence; one line at 6", another at 18" and another at 36" and narry a coon, rabbit or deer has been a problem since. Deer "nose" the top line and run.

cjk · Jul 3, 2009

We have trouble with deer running thru our electric fence at night. I dont think fish line would last long.

Im planning on trying the white rope with conductors in it hoping they will see it better.

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