Well, the season finally opened here in Louisiana and since I'm bored at work I figured I would let everyone know how my weekend went.

Friday afternoon I was trying to decide whether or not I should hunt the public land surrounding my parents house which I have heard several birds or hunt a favorite spot of mine in a WMA in north LA. Well I decided to make the trip back home and hunt around my parents house and let a friend hunt the WMA spot.

So I woke Saturday to a hot, humid, cloudy, foggy morning. Needless to say, I didn't hear or see anything after hunting all day and covering several miles of woods. My friend, who I let hunt the WMA, had 4 birds come in on him and he was able to take a nice bird with an 11 in beard. Happy for him, but still somewhatfrustrated at the same time...

Without being able to hunt Sunday, I took off work Monday so I could get another day of hunting in. I went back to the same spot I had went Saturdaymorning and quickly got a response from a Tom. I set up on him about 100 yards away. He was answering every call, even cutting me off and double gobbling. He was in an area that I was somewhat unfamiliar, but I was still confident that he was going to head my way when he flew down. I finally set my calls down after and began waiting for that white head to pop up over the ridge. It never came. I called, no more answers. I sat and called now and then for about an hour and nothing. So, I get impatient and snuck over the ridge to find a large creek between me and him that I did not know about. When I finally heard him gobble again he was several hundred yards farther down the creek. I tried to get in front of him, but he went into some private property...

So then I loaded up the boat and went fishing

Even though my opening weekend didn't go as I had planned, I still enjoyed myself out in the woods and I atleast got to talk to a bird. Maybe next weekend I will be able to post some pics of a dead bird.

My LA. hunt didn't go as planned. Quite frankly, I'm pissed off at my damn turkeys. I've been watching and filming two longbeards on my property for a month. I had one on film last Wed. strutting at 50 yards. That's only three days before the opener. My worst nightmare came true. Both longbeards disappeared on opening day. I heard one of them gobble on a hunting lease that borders my land about half a mile away. He went the other way. Sunday morning I heard both gobblers, about a half mile away. They both went the opposite direction after flydown. What upsets me the most is that these two longbeards have been roosting on my property since Jan. in the same place. They were still roosting in the same place up until Friday before the opener. I just knew I was going to get one of them this past weekend. That's turkey hunting for you. If someone else doesn't kill them, they will probably cruise back through my place sooner or later. I'm going to keep after them until I get one or find out they have been shot. I'm going to hunt them a couple of days this week and this weekend, then I'm going to Tenn. for four or five days next week.