Don't forget to scout for roosting areas ... keep a look out for poop. Turkey poop is distinctive and easy to recognize. In that wet land, soft woods roads or edges of wet flats should be holding tracks. If you have a few acorn flats, they should be ideal if there are birds in that area at all. Turkey will hold in about every type of habitat except very thick, young trees such as thickly planted pine plantations, overgrown thickets of saplings and briars. They like to be able to see. They like meadows where they can get seeds and bugs. They love acorns. Big woods with clean understory is good habitat too. If where you hunt, there happen to be a few open areas, acorn flats, or woods roads where a gobbler can strut .... even better.

They were not gobbling where I hunt in SE Alabama last weekend, but should be soon. Head out just before daybreak and listen. If there are birds anywhere on that 100 acres, you should be able to he the gobbler(s).