ORIGINAL: usahoe18
However, I did see 2 gobblers roost on the creek while deer hunting in November. Will this be there usual roosting site in the spring?
It depends on exactly where you are located in North America, but most likely not. You may well see turkeys in that same area, but turkeys usually have spring patterns and winter patterns that are different from each other. The farther north and the farther west you are in the US, the more extreme those patterns can be. You'll see huge flocks of birds in the winter, sometimes of more than 100 birds. They will occasionally "migrate" (sort of... though not terribly far) to an area they know historically has enough food to sustain them for the winter.... in the spring, they bust back up again. Gobblers almost always bust up the spring... just like deer will.
As to are you doing anything wrong?
That sort of depends. What exactly are you doing? You expressed that you have never had any luck roosting a gobbler the night before. Historically, I hunt about an hours drive from where I live... so I haven't had any luck either... just because I'm not there to do it. With few exceptions, when I have gone to roost a bird in the evening, I have been successful at having that bird gobble again in the morning. I'm about 50% (optimistically) at killing those birds. Roosted is not roasted as the saying goes. How are you going about it? What have you tried?
What I can't figure out is why you aren't hearing any birds gobble at first light? I have had some birds like that before, but typically that is a weather related issue. It can occasionally mean that they are roosting with the hens, espeically in the early spring before the season opens. In most parts of the country, when the season opens, the gobblers have already split up, and often established dominence. With easterns in my part of the world, that can mean you won't hear a ton of gobbling... perhaps only one bird... but thats the king of the hill himself. You have to challenge the dominent bird in the early season. Taking him out will blow things open... sort of like a turf war with gangs. Its amazing really. Thats not always the case. If you have a lot of turkeys, then you will usually hear lots of gobbling, because there are lots of hens to go around. Property layout has much to do with it as well.
Give us a bit more info, and hopefully we'll see some updated pictures of you this spring with a limbhanger! Just don't get discouraged!