It is all up to you. If your looking for my opinion, I would gladly take a jake if the season is dwindling down. I would rather fill my take with a tasty Jake vs not eating anything at all. Jakes are more gullable than longbeards, but they are still great birds to harvest. To me, turkeys are different than deer. It is harder for me to take a yearling buck vs taking a Jake.....maybe because a turkey can be a longbeard in two years vs a deer taking 3+ years to be a monster. I don't know, just my opinion.