RE: any CA turkey hunters out there?
well sorry to hear about the number of people you had mess up your set up.......really hit the star bend or go to the other side of the river by the boat ramp......from there walk south... a long ways if you can...get way down the river and then cut into the woods and hunt in there (if possible go down about 1-2 miles)....you will see many fewer hunters and this is where the turks are....we used bikes on the levee and road them down to hunt....
in my experience the best way to hunt turkeys is to first find them...then set up....if possible...keep moving and calling (no gobble calls) but loud crow calls, duck, owl, or even cuts from a hen call to get a gobbler to gobble...then work him and get set up....
good luck and i hope you run into fewer hunters this time.