I'm hunting SW Ohio in the second half of the season, we don't have a ton of birds, but there's a good enough population that I should have at least seen/heard one given the amount of walking I did today. I spent 8 hours in the woods today and didn't hear a peep from a turkey (after reading some of these threads, I can see I'm not the only one). I walked through fields, mature forest and new growth forest and didn't even bust up a single bird. I spent 2 hours set up in one spot and 90 minutes in another spot, calling about every 15 minutes.

My question is, are there any tips anyone can offer as far as where to look for the birds? The first property I hunted today was a public hunting area that's about 1200 acres. There is a creek about halfway through the woods on the area that is impossible to cross and has been the entire season due to heavy rains. The worst part is, the public hunting area is only accessable from the east side of the property. My theory is that, because of hunting pressure from the first 3 weeks of the season, the birds have migrated to the western side of the creek. Is this a plausable theory? I'm also afraid that the majority of the hens have already bred, so there's little incentive for a gobbler to investigate right now.

Also, does anyone have any ideas as to which calls I should use to get the birds to gobble/approach my setup? I've tried crow caws, gobble calls, clucks, yelps, kee kees, cackles and cutts to no avail. A little over a week ago, I had had birds gobbling at me for the first half of the first day, and never heard another peep from them since. I was hunting in SE KY and I did manage to bag a Jake on the second day, but that was because I saw him crossing a field 150 yards out and was able to cluck at him and get him to approach my hen decoy (very cautiously). Just at a loss how I can walk for 8 hours and not even bust up a single turkey.