RE: Tennessee turkeys. . . opening day
(savannah, TN) We woke up in camp saturday morning to a bad down pour, went and checked the fields that the birds were using friday, and they were there, 5 good birds, a few jakes and 16 or 17 hens, all traveling in a group. We set up on 'em anyway and they didn't respond to anything. Went in yesterday afternoon and set up a ground blind just off thier normal path to go roost, and we had 2 good gobblers looking at the decoy and started to come in, then all those hens circled around to where they were and brought 'em both back into the group, then watched em go roost on the opposite side of the creek from where we thought they were going. all this during a down pour, we had five inches of water collect at our feet.
Left out sat. night, and looking out the window now i'm glad we did. The radar is showin' one heck of a storm over our spot too.
Hopefully they'll break up soon and the weather will get right.