I'm on board with the pockets concept. I hunt Marion county some, which was supposedly hit pretty hard. My lease is split by a creek that was pretty much just stagnant puddles most of the summer. It had a little flow most of the time, but not much at all. I never found a single dead deer along about 1/4 to 3/8 of a mile of that creek. I found it kind of odd but I guess my ground wasn't affected much.