I’m not much help on any specific spot. My son also started hunting when he was nine, he’s now 13 and has harvested a deer three out of the four years. His first year he struck out also. The last three years I have ran several different bait pile‘s with cameras on them that he has shot a deer off of twice, and one on the way. Not really my style of hunting and I hope as he gets older he would like to get out and go find them a little bit more but for when they’re young it does the trick to get them into it.