ORIGINAL: nothinspecial
(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.
see to me it completely looks like hens aren't even starting to nest yet. when they turkeys flock up like that its nearly impossible to call one in. . . and when you try an ambush or try to figure ut their pattern then you have that many more eyes lookin for you. I'm sure this year is going to get much better and i'm gonna blame this poor opening weekend on the weather because this past week we were in the twenties once and the thirties a few times ans that is awful tough right before turkey season ya know. BB