RE: Developing an opening day gameplan
My opening day gameplan is usually decided by going out scouting at daylight for several weeks before season. This decides where the most likely site to start out is. But if the first set up doesn't pay off, everything pretty well goes out the window. I just get up, move around, calling here and there, throw in a shock call once in a while, sneak up and glass likely places where I have seen birds strutting, etc. Persistence will pay off, sooner or later I will strike up a bird or see one, then it's start all over again. Just hang in there, most birds don't just come waltzing in like they do on TV.