Awesome! This is exactly what we did and have had no problems! We don't have this implemented in our new garden yet though. When I was looking at deer fencing solutions 3 years ago, the guy at TSC is the one that told me not to spend a lot of money yet...try 30lbs fishing line. So we did and were happy! Our posts were even very far a part! - Mike

I know this video is 4 years ago and you probably already have better fencing, but for those who want to do this and want a door for the garden, use a cucumber trellis as the door. We had one that we no longer used, that was rectangle shape and we just zip tied one side like 'hinges' to one side of a post and attached a chain to the other side so we can 'lock' the fence. This type of fence worked for us for 3 years until we upgraded and got a roll of fence fabric off of Amazon to wrap around the parameter of the posts. Very affordable option for those who don't have the money or need a quick solution!!

I tried this at 4' and 2' approximately. Kept the deer out for a couple of days until they figured out how to climb through. Your spacings probably would have worked longer, but I feel like they still would have figured it out. I live in a suburban neighborhood and my deer are not spooked by anything, really. I've walked out to shout at one for eating my trees and it squared off with me and stamped its foot. Also had them walk by within feet of me when I was weeding in the garden. They just don't care 😂😣.

This makes so much sense. I've been sweating over the cost of other fencing but this I can afford !

This is a good idea - those pesky deer love rooming and gazing . Have a blessed day

I use bamboo and tie bells to the top of the bamboo. They’re very flexible every time they touch the ring works perfect.

Awesome! Simple yet effective. Great tip!

Thanks for posting this great system. Happy Gardening 2021!

Thank you for sharing this.We're going to try it. The price is right!

What a great solution for the price...WELL DONE.. Look at that Garden..NICE.

That's a good idea. Kind of got me to thinking if it might work for our chickens that free range. Never at all did I think about fishing line. 1" apart would take some time but man, that's be cheap! Thanks for this! Much appreciated!

Thanks for the awesome tip. I WILL be doing this around my corn field!

we also use monofilament fishing line over the open area of our fenced area for our chickens and ducks. String it back and forth in an irregular pattern to prevent hawks from diving into the area. It doesn't even have to be closely strung, just irregular. The gaps on ours are about 6 feet apart. It is essentially invisible to people, but ariel predators can see it. The monofilment fishing line also keeps deer out of our garden area.

Thank you for taking the time to explain. It is working great for the 20 fruit trees I just planted. The deer ate two branches before I had a chance to put the fishing ring up. working great!! Thank you!! Take care!!

Great solution and nice video. Thanks for putting this up. The degradation of Monofilament Fishing Line over time under sun would be an issue as it is not UV resistant. If the fence is going to stay for long term, consider using Fluorocarbon Fishing Line which is UV resistant.

I appreciate your honesty, talking about how it works for you but can't guarantee it will work for everyone. So many idiots making videos promising things that just aren't true.

Thank you for this video! We have feral deer in Australia, introduced in the 1800s just add to the many wild animals we already have to contend with :) haha. I have been trying to figure out a cheap way to protect my veggie patch from our marauding deer. Thank you for explaining your system and allaying all my fears! :)

Cool stuff! Thanks for the idea.

Excellent idea.

I put up a fence very similar…we have a second post on a 45 degree angle with fishing line tied to it as well. We’ve enjoyed great success thus far. I’m certain there are some deer walking about with wire cutters but they haven’t shown up yet. Great video…this fishing line fence works and its cheap.

Dude thank god. It’s not even Mother’s Day yet and the deer ravished my grape vines. It never occurred to me to use fishing line. Thank you thank you

I did this to keep hawks out of my chicken run. I strung it along top of run from post to post. Works wonderfully as long as you make sure there’s no gap 3-4 ft wide.

Did the same thing, but with electric fence instead, 8 runs a foot apart. The deer went right through it, barely slowed then down. Tenax black plastic fencing is easy and actually works.

Thank you, brother. Can't beat the price, or the simplicity, of that deer fence. Garden looks great. And, we farm under St. Isidore Homestead LLC, how cool! Blessings.

When I built my garden fence, I installed 42" rabbit fence on 8' wood posts specifically so that I'd have room later on for a taller fence (money was tight at the time). I ran 3 strands of fishing line above the rabbit fence (spaced abt 8" apart) and it has worked perfectly for 3 seasons so far. I DO have to replace the line every other year as the sun does break it down eventually, though.

In our local area there is a gardener who put orange flagging tape on their fence to be sure it could be seen in low light. The same kind tree companies use to mark trees. It's very light and blows in the wind.

Good video. Good exp explanation of project including approximate cost.

I did this around my blueberry bushes and so far so good. No more nibbled foliage.

We did this about 6 ft level, above black plastic mesh fencing on the top of a wood fence with rebar pounded in the post to take it to about 6-7 ft tall. The deer only came in during the rutting season when there were 6 of them together. They jumped back out pretty quickly. We made repairs and they didn't come back. Our regular deer population (they come by our back lot 2 times a day) stay out. Fishing line, who would have thought! Also, neighbors can't see the black plastic mesh netting so HOA doesn't get after us.

I like JE's vids and yours too. I did this and it kept the deer out for sure, but not the woodchucks, rabbits, etc.

so far so good for me too!

Thank you for the information

I'm wrapping apple trees with five foot fencing and then I'm going to go around the whole area with the fish line fence I'm glad it works for you hopefully it will for me

Probably the difference between the white tail you have and the pacific black tail we have, but we got to watch our local deer go through the v style gate without issue at our neighbors house. They tried using the lines after there was a mishap (big buck inside garden got spooked and crashed through their 7 ft high welded steel fencing that it failed to jump snapping the 3 inch posts off at the ground across one entire side of the garden) we watched them carefully step through the lines. I think they used jute string though rather than monofilament.

This clever idea FAILED miserably to protect my one apple sapling. I enclosed an apple sapling with 6.5-foot tall fencing, close enough that deer cannot jump over (they'd bee in effect jumping into a "well" of fencing) but far enough away that they could not reach in without stepping inside the enclosure. Turned out, my one lone deer (left behind the migration to higher forests and meadows), being very desperate (eating all kinds of natural but very undesirable vegetation elsewhere), managed to step partially through my enclosure so it could place forefeet on the ground and ease it's head through and then reach up 5+ feet to get at every last leaf! In the morning, the fencing was in tact, undamaged and a mystery. The apple, utterly stripped. I got the culprit on video (2AM). My problem was I had a plastic chicken wire type fencing around the tree from 2 feet up to 5 feet (works great but did not have enough) and the fishing lines, at 6-8 inch intervals, below and above the impenetrable fencing. The deer first drank up all the water I'd left for birds and my 2 rabbits and then wormed its way into the enclosure (barely) and then eased up to the top of the tree, and stripped it and then eased out, leaving a mystery had I not seen the video. Took it all of 2 minutes to destroy my tree. The fishing line kept the animal from totally entering the enclosure but still allowed partial entry and devastation. This is the third attempt at enclosing this plant! I think it may not recover again this year if ever. I may now be about killed. Anybody need venison? I'm ready to kill this damned creature. Alas, hunting season is still 2 months away.

I've done this around my kitchen garden for the last three years, and it works great. My T posts are only 4 feet tall and I run just two strands, 20 and 40 inches high. It doesn't work for bunnies, but the deer steer clear of it.

Plant some strawberries and you will find that deer can jump 8 ft or more from a standing start. Our deer, at least, really like those strawberries!

They will figure out for sure

It seems like a good idea...so I tried it according to your recommendations and measurements. So for about 2 months it worked the deer left my garden alone. Well I must have the smartest deer in Georgia because they figured it out. I watched them approach the fence and and simply step right thru. Guess I will have to revert to solar powered electric fence.

Update on your review after a full season? Great idea, thinking about this in my garden. Thanks!

I've got a 6 foot high fence. They still jumped it. Adding 2 feet to it this year. Lol

So far this has worked for me. Although I tried using 10' conduit. As posts, that has not worked well.

I will try to get a read through on all the comments...but possibly for a faster answer...what about rabbits? Anyone have a cheap way to keep rabbits and smaller thieves out of the garden? This was a good, simple, short and to the point video. Thanks for taking the time to share and your results. Jesus bless.

I loved this idea as well and so did it at my garden. I couldn't find a large quantity of 30# but did find 50# mono. I did it every 6-inches up to 6-feet. It worked well for awhile. The white tail deer then figured out they could push on it and actually duck through it and even some found they could chew on it enough to break it. So this fall they've totally overtaken our garden....

We are using a pallet on two heavy duty hinges, connected to the corner post for a gate!

I would like to try this. Could you explain the Y shape gate idea in more detail?

That's what I had in mind to do I don't see why it wouldn't work and what deer would try jumping over something they can can't see

Great info... Use barbless wire instead of fishing line? so on reading the comments below it seems that in some locations or times of year the deer get through fishing line... I just called tractor supply: they have barbless wire, 12.5 guage @1320 feet for $72.99, and 10' T posts for $10.99 each. If you have a 20 x 40' garden, that is 120 lineal feet. If you use 10' Tposts 1' in ground, you have 9' or 108" above ground. If you wrap every 4" with wire, that is 27 rows (108'/4'= 27 rows of wire); 27rows x 120' lineal ft = 3240', so you would need 3 bundles of wire at $219 total, and about 7 or 8 T Posts at around $100: overall cost would be about $350 with post hammer. I may give that a try as we have lots of deer... thank you commenters for your feedback, as that gave me this idea.

Great idea. Guess what? Your alwsys going to get the critics. I like the idea we in in the ccountry , deer country.

This totally works! We like our little deer family, and we were looking for a solution that was environmentally-friendly, inexpensive and safe for small animals. We have a couple of cats, squirrels, possums, birds & lots of other wild animals on the property. I watched both vids yesterday (the original by JEofWV and yours), purchased the t-posts & 30-lb fishing line, and rigged up a quick temporary fence to keep them out last night. We sunk two 7-ft Tposts 24 feet apart (between our house and a 6-foot redwood fence). The ground is sloped, so we ran the bottom line about 12-inches off the ground (10 inches from the ground at the lowest point, 15 inches at the highest). Then, we strung the bottom 3 rows approx. 6 inches apart (as recommended in your video), with the top 3 rows about 12 inches apart. The finished height was 53 inches from the ground. This is a temporary fix, and today we will hang a new fence further out to include our citrus trees. The posts will be about 9 feet apart. Great solution! Thank you so much.

I was just about to consider this for my garden, then it dawned on me. We also have Bear, and they would have a field day with this just to be spiteful.

Food for thought. I need to keep deer out of a 3/4 acre area which is surrounded by large pines on one side, black willows on another. I don't want to fence directly up against these dense tree lines, but thinking that running fishing line through the trees might deter the deer from cutting through them into my orchard. Thanks:)

Ever have any issues with birds getting caught in the line? We always were bummed with how much the black fences caught dragonflies and small birds

Thank you. I'm going to try it. Do you think lower lines will keep the neighborhood ground hog out?

The Dooley Homestead channel video show this but with three feet outside this fence, a three foot step on post with one filament around - it has a 3D effect and confuses the deer. Look it up - it makes perfect sense and no one says it does not work.

Excellent. Saves a lot of hassle and money. If it works, why go more elaborate and expensive?

This kept deer out of our garden for a few months but now they manage to get it without even messing up the fishing line so they must be jumping right over it and jumping back out.

Thank you for the video. How do you keep rabbits out?

30 lb. mono worked for a while. But the blackeye peas were too tempting. By October, they were simply "busting" through the mono line twice a week. I put up a camera and unfortunately watched them regularly.

My neighbor is feeding the deer and they are eating my plants. However, I have the largest yard in the neighborhood which has become a deer highway over the decades. I'm thinking of stringing a fence across the middle of my hard to shutdown their path. My thought was stretched alum clothes line and invisible deer/bird netting (usually $40 for 14x75') strung over the line like shower curtains. When I want to cut my grass, I'll just slide the netting off to the side, With 14' wide netting, I can make that aluminum line over 12' high at the lowest sag point. NOTE: I am thinking of just letting it hang off the line with the bottom just laying on the ground. It might be better if 2-3' of the netting lays on the ground rather than just reaching the ground. I cannot imagine what is going to go through their little squirrel brains when they realize they can't browse through my yard!

That’s really great!! What about smaller animals like rabbits, etc?

I am going to try something like, but instead I am using bailing wire about a foot apart. It is a lot stronger and even cheaper than expensive fishing line. I am just trying to keep out deer, because we don't have many coons or possums around here and no ground hounds I know of.

Awesome!

Excellent. I wonder if you still think this is a good fence and if there are any countermeasures or updates???

We have an electric fence that stand 6'3" and the deer jump it ALL THE TIME.

Maybe I'll give this a shot to protect my young fruit trees. Tfs

The manufacturers know how to formulate steel so it will last a long time. But choose to make cheap steel so it will fail. Good to here. The T Post manufacturers still make their post out of Good Steel.

Thank you for the video! I want to try this on my garden. We live in the woods in the UP and have tons of deer. Have you tried this as a long term solution? Do the deer eventually figure out how to get through?

should have put a camera to watch their reactions, I bet it was funny

I live on a pond and try this technique around my tomato garden and a pesky little chipmunk keep chewing the bottom line out I guess he didn't see the video

Thanks. How did you tie the fishing line?

Deer can jump over an 8 foot fence it's just a matter of how bad they want what's on the other side. They will also dig under a fence if at all possible.

I’m hoping to tackle the bunnies and the deer by putting a very short (visible) fence (I’ll probably buy something from Home Depot), for the bunnies plus do what you did for the deer. What do you think about that? Might look silly, but I’m hoping it’ll keep bunnies and deer out 😅

Great idea! Any information on the longevity of that kind of monofilament line?.. approximate..?

What if some persistent deer takes a jump anyway and gets all tangled up in the fishing line.

why is having the deer see the line first a bad thing? wouldn't that prevent them from trying to get through?

How many feet apart are t-post

Thank you we planted some fruit trees and we have had deer eating there new branches so we are going to go around. Each tree 🌳 7 trees in total give it a try. I noticed you have a Missions shirt on very cool I have a ministry too on you tube been seeing miracles out on the streets where I’m from Port Angeles Wa anyway check us out and thanks for the Video

How far apart did you space the fishing line?

Any suggestions for rabbits and groundhogs?

how many animals have gotten hung up on this? that is my concern.

Will it keep out moose? Probably not strong enough or high enough.

what knot do you use to tie off the fish line?

Since this is 6 years ago, do you still recommend this style of deer fence?

better to use 15lb line... less chance of deer seeing line.... what they push against and can not see, they will not jump. I have been using this for several years and it works great. Had three bucks bedding next to my garden and they never ate my vegs

Does this do anything at all to deter smaller animals like rabbits, etc, even if you have really close lines along the bottom? We live the woods with a large and active population of deer, but also rabbits, moles, turkey, fox, raccoon, etc.

I think I’ll extend my t posts with cheap pvc pipe and use my 60 lb mono fishing line I’m not gonna spend a fortune on fencing

I have tried this system repeatedly for the last few years. It simply has not worked. The deer maneuver through it, even at 12” or less apart. I have seen them on more than one occasion wiggle their bodies in between the lines. Also, the lines do break. I have used 30 lb and heavier line. I have since switched to deer netting. It is almost like a screen door - barely noticeable. It seems to be working well.

I'm sure Bambi is asking his dad... "when did they figure out force fields???" LOL wonder how that will work against wild hogs

Do you think 5/8" rebar of 6' with 1' in the ground would be as strong as T-bar ?

New to your channel, I need to put up a fence just so my dog is not in my garden when I put it out

I apologize if someone's already asked, but I just did this yesterday and tied a string of cans for calamity in the middle of mine. Should I take that down? Also, how close together does the line have to be?

Do you think this would still deter deers if I put a 2 ft bunny fence in bottom, but still followed up with fishing line every 6 inches up to 6-7ft?

YES this could help me thank you

1:10 spool of 30# monofilament fishing line.... Not about deer.. How long do you think that like will last in the Florida Sun and Rain? Think it will last longer better than 18ga tarred nylon mason string? I see you looped, did you also tie?

great video, your video are good sometimes they are hard to hear

I've seen deer jump 16' fence like it wasn't there

This may work in the summer but doesn't work in the winter when deer turn into eating machine zombies. They go right through multi strands of fishline and piled up brush. My trees were stripped this winter by deer even with fishline barriers.

what was your post spacing? Here at Bushels And More Farm in Maine we have a serious deer issue. We are figuring fence for about 3 acres.

Why is it important that the deer not be able to see the line?? Do you think this is a better solution than using chicken wire? I know the chicken wire will be somewhat more expensive, but I'm wondering if it will work better so the trade-off will be worth it. Oh, also.... I can't imagine this successfully keeps rabbits out??