The wind was light out of the east, and I am positioned 100 yards south and 300 yards east (upwind) of the deer's location...there just happened to be a scrubby bush on the ditchbank very close to where the buck entered the ditch, so i used that bush as a landmark to gauge my ambush. The water in the ditch was 10 feet across and probably 3 feet deep, too much for me to jump, I i didn't feel like getting wet either, I i hiked 300 yards back south to the bridge to get to the other side of the creek.