Covert names: let's hear 'em

[Dollar]

We have only a couple named trails
Training Ground
River Road
Both produced this season multiple times

[Brett Farley]

Woodcock Hill
Lady’s Covert
Oil Can Popple Stand
Triangle Covert
612 Covert
EWBucks Covert
Twin Creek Covert

[Don Mills]

Martha’s Place
The stump
The big woods
Cullier’s run
Ida’s
The swamp
The ditch

[James Whittington]

Autumn Olives 1
Autumn Olives 2
The Long Walk
Coon Den
The Buck Thicket
The Turkey Thicket
Game Warden
Sparky's Spot

[Stan Hillis]

The Smokehouse, because you can always go there and get meat. It's roughly 400 yards by 20 yards and is surrounded by old oaks that drop acorns onto the food plot.

[chris dawe]

From way up here...
Wood slide
McCarthys
Flats
The snares
Quarry
Skibbereen
Up the river
Jabes garden
Ken's cutover
Flume
Birch village
The island
The farm
Greenwoods

[Andy]

Smokehouse, I love that one

[Chris Pope]

I could sit by a fire with tired dogs in front of it after hunting some cold day and just listen to someone read off these names...there must be some amazing stories that could be told about each one.

[Kevin McCormack]

Two more waterfowl spots:

Seneca Breaks, the first significant set of rapids beginning the fall line on the Potomac River above the Great Falls. All types of flotsam and jetsam get caught in the rocks and pile up. We would paddle out across the face of the slack water to the middle of the river and put about a dozen duck decoys upriver in the slack water and hide in the blowdowns, which made perfect cover for pass shooting. The year I made an impossible shot on a beautiful Blackduck highballing over the rig, only to lose it in the rapids below, was the year I bought my first Labrador retriever.

Rowser's Ford, the shallow water across the face of the lower Seneca Breaks, where Jeb Stuart brought 5,000 confederate cavalry and troops across the river by moonlight on the way to Gettysburg. He made a fatal detour to attack Rockville, MD, which deprived Lee of his intelligence reports which cost Lee dearly in the epic battle that followed. You could wade out across the ford, but ice creepers or golf spikes were an absolute must, and cover was scant compared to the Breaks above. Scrambling to retrieve a kill could result in a quick ice bath, and a lively cripple no dog could run down in the shallow but swift rapids.

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Kevin McCormack

Two more waterfowl spots:

Seneca Breaks, the first significant set of rapids beginning the fall line on the Potomac River above the Great Falls. All types of flotsam and jetsam get caught in the rocks and pile up. We would paddle out across the face of the slack water to the middle of the river and put about a dozen duck decoys upriver in the slack water and hide in the blowdowns, which made perfect cover for pass shooting. The year I made an impossible shot on a beautiful Blackduck highballing over the rig, only to lose it in the rapids below, was the year I bought my first Labrador retriever.

Rowser's Ford, the shallow water across the face of the lower Seneca Breaks, where Jeb Stuart brought 5,000 confederate cavalry and troops across the river by moonlight on the way to Gettysburg. He made a fatal detour to attack Rockville, MD, which deprived Lee of his intelligence reports which cost Lee dearly in the epic battle that followed. You could wade out across the ford, but ice creepers or golf spikes were an absolute must, and cover was scant compared to the Breaks above. Scrambling to retrieve a kill could result in a quick ice bath, and a lively cripple no dog could run down in the shallow but swift rapids.

I love the names and stories for your coverts. If the rest of the world understood what these places meant, they’d be crawling over the landscape. Best to be a hunter who knows their value and holds the faith.