Upcoming season projections

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Greenlantern,
Welcome to IDO.
Hope there are some members from your area,
there is also a forum section for Kansas.
Fall fishing should be getting good down there by now.
Good Luck.
Jack.

Welcome aboard

Glad to have you with us.
Ron

Welcome Mr. Greenlantern!

Man I could have used you about a year ago. I spent about 3 weeks in Witchta looking for someone that I could go fishing with.

Finally found a guide…and he didn’t show up.

Most feel I haven’t fully recovered yet!

So..what’s your favorite fish down that way?

WElcome aboard greenlantern. I’ve been to your area many times, my sister and family live in Haysville – pretty flat (the landscape) but nice area – even had a chance to fish there on one Christmas trip – caught some nice bass.

Welcome to In-Depth Outdoors Joe!!!

Welcom aboard.

Welcome greenlantern. Another Kansan, there are not many of us in here.

Where do you primarily fish?

Will B nice 2 see reports from your area

I would assume you have plenty of “TOOLS” in stock , I need some of those bigger Dragin Jigs tools.

Got to get down to the tool store

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Jami

Welcome!!

I drew for season “B” in MN this year, but with the current weather conditions, im a little apprehensive about this time period I can’t get out to set cameras because of the deep snow, and this time last year i believe i already had them set
I’m wondering if the cold weather and snow is going to push back the breeding activity until later time periods. If i can’t get out to set up cameras within the next 2 weeks, i might wait and hunt the archery season in mid May…
Anyone else in the same boat??

I’m starting to worry a bit

Was just thinking how it will be in 4 weeks. I’ve got a season A tag.

I got B season but the little dude goes A the last couple years I hope it warms up soon

Snow is not going to effect the Gobblers. IMO they seem to go more by the length of daylight over actual weather. Hens won’t be receptive if it’s not nice out. So it may be easier to call in a bird that might otherwise be spending the day breeding hens. I wouldn’t worry too much about it yet, in three weeks it could be 80 and sunny.

CW

I’m anticipating cooler than average weather, but hopefully no snow. Toms will be more than willing, that’s for sure, it’s just a matter of comfort when hunting them during the early seasons. I’ve bagged a gobbler or two in the snow, but most of those events have been storms that brought snow in after the ground was clear.

When snow persists like this late into the spring, it puts an even bigger premium on food. Our birds aren’t in the best of shape right now. I’ve got reports from coyote hunters finding some birds in WI and MN dead under trees. That’s usually a sign of a tough winter getting to them.

While it’s been great up until this point, all the rain and snow literally cements their food under and impenetrable layer of ice, making food difficult for them these past few weeks. For the population, spring can’t come soon enough.

One thing’s for certain though, it can happen in a hurry, and we might be seeing larger flocks and groups of hard strutting toms following hens around later into the season.

Go where the birds are and you’ll be fine, but if there was ever a year to scout heavily just before your season, this would be it. You can count on them to be in some of the same areas that they typically frequent, but anytime they’re in greater number and in bigger groups, they’re harder to find in the onesie’s-two’sie’s across the woods. It might put some more pressure on you to hunt a well-scouted area right out of the roost because catching up with them throughout the rest of the day could be a challenge.

Weather will tell the story!

Joel

with the rapid weather changes, any new predictions?

PS if the weather for season B turns out to be good, i am honestly thinking about trying this….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHq4HAlBgTY

Some of you may find this distasteful or unethical, but i think this would be absolutely awesome!!! If i tried it, it would be my first time shotgun hunting rather than bow hunting

I can’t see myself dressed up in costumes, but otherwise, I don’t see a problem with trying to get up close and personal. To each his own as long as they stay within the laws.

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with the rapid weather changes, any new predictions?

PS if the weather for season B turns out to be good, i am honestly thinking about trying this….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHq4HAlBgTY

Some of you may find this distasteful or unethical, but i think this would be absolutely awesome!!! If i tried it, it would be my first time shotgun hunting rather than bow hunting

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Love the idea of the technique, not sure what to think about the rest.

Brought to you by the fine folks who produced –

-Amish vs. Turkeys – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCtG7qdxBIk
-Bigfoot vs. Turkeys – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-SEUCXPrE
-Skeletor vs. Turkeys – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCtC-9FyMcg

I was pleased to see this on their website:

“Caution – There is risk when pretending to be a wild turkey during hunting season. Please be smart when Turkey Reaping. We don’t promote doing this on public land or in thick wooded areas. It’s best to do in open fields.”

Aside from that, I think if you talk to most serious turkey hunters, the act of being out there and hunting gobblers is only a portion actual hunting….the rest is religion. Something about this smacks of disrespect to the game animal itself, and more than anything to me personally, is a wild gimic to sell DVD’s. Which I don’t have a problem with, until this is passed-off by those who are less-than-informed as what turkey hunting or what turkey hunters are like.

I could only hope that the DVD would contain some great information about the technique; blow-by-blow accounts of the best times of the breeding season to use this method, specific setups, time of day, how to use with traditional techniques like calling, etc. After seeing the trailers I’m pretty sure I could expect a steady parade of comic book characters set to techno-music and strobe/forward/reverse editing effects. I’d hope to be incorrect, but that’s how it’s being marketed.

So what I’m left with is how effective is this? I can say that I’ve only ever done it on accident while setting a tom decoy on a fenceline. I killed that bird at 30 yards, but was it because I was trying to stake in the decoy and add movement to it? Would I have killed that bird if I’d had time to crawl back to the tree I had picked out? I’ve heard of other people doing it, esp. in thicker alfalfa, but I can’t say I’ve ever tried to go out and get it done in that fashion.

You can get birds to do some crazy things over the course of a season with enough people and enough cameras. I’m wondering exactly how effective a technique this is, or if it’s a one-in-50 birds kind of thing.

If anyone gives it a go, report back!

Joel

The explanation behind the skeleton costume is simply because of the color. Since he is proning behind the turkey, he looks more like the shadow of the “bird”