Late Season Hunting
01-26-2010, 05:20 PM
#2
Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 7,437
I love late season - weather is nicer, hens may be on nest, wow!
If you can go scout your area as much as you can. Find out where the birds want to be and that is where you will be.
They can gobble good from the roost but once on the ground go silent as they are stuck in Strutt mode follwoing any hen they may find.
Or they make the circuit checking all places a hen has left them - hoping that hen will come and get bred one more time. Then they move.
Find the hens - you wil find the Tom.......I love late season.....
JW
If you can go scout your area as much as you can. Find out where the birds want to be and that is where you will be.
They can gobble good from the roost but once on the ground go silent as they are stuck in Strutt mode follwoing any hen they may find.
Or they make the circuit checking all places a hen has left them - hoping that hen will come and get bred one more time. Then they move.
Find the hens - you wil find the Tom.......I love late season.....
JW
01-27-2010, 02:14 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: west central wi USA
Posts: 2,242
Leave your decoys at home and don't call much. By that time time they've been decoyed and called at a lot. Be patient, they'll be cautious and come in slow. Some of the best hunting is after 10:00 am. The hens will have wondered off to lay their eggs and the toms will be looking for company. You will have a pretty good chance at any toms that are left.
