Recent content by megalomaniac

Normally, she would be back in an hour or so. However the timing of when you bumped her off is not ideal... basically right at fly up time in the evening. I suspect she ended up roosting in a tree overnight, in which case the eggs would have completely cooled down to ambient temps overnight...

52y/o, had my first basal cell cancer on my nose 3 years ago. No sun shall touch my skin on fishing trips any longer :) but seriously, I dont even put sunscreen on except for my face and fingertips. The rest of my body is completely covered. And the new cooling fabrics are crazy comfortable.

Haven't gotten to fish since January due to turkey season, but I figured I'd give it a whirl this past weekend... terrible dirty freshwater from the Pearl River flooding past month, so hopes weren't high for specks, but I figured I'd find reds. Managed a couple slot reds, a 16in flounder, and...

Birds are really spotty with vast areas that should be perfect completely devoid of birds. You can get lucky and stumble into them scouting from roads, but better to hit local sporting good stores or gas stations and ask folks where the birds are for some local Intel. For whatever reason...

Whew, those are NICE!

you get some pics? I love to see hooks that size!

Those toms aren't spending the middle of the day in the full sun of pastures.... esp in May on hot days... guaranteed. Do you have any hardwood bottoms/ streamside management zones? That's where the toms are going mid day I'd suspect.

For those of you with a tag in your pocket, we are just about to the point in the season where the 1.5in spurs birds will be falling. Most hunters tagged out already on the 2 yos... but the old toms are about to get lonely and make mistakes. May is the month to kill the limbhangers.

This exactly... once turkeys got wiped out 10 years ago, they just don't recover in thise areas. Turkeys don't distribute themselves across the landscape to repopulate void areas like deer. A flock of turkeys may venture out a mile or so from their spring home range to as late nesting hens to...

I was out there 2 years ago turkey hunting, then again a year and a half ago scouting for turkeys and sightseeing.

If it's been a couple months, I start out with dry cat food. After catching a couple, I switch to marshmellows and fish (sardines/ tuna). They work amazingly well!

Same on my places... best hatch last year since early 2000s. Group of 13 jakes on one farm, 5 and 3 on another, 2 on another. Plus another couple dozen seen from the roads in between my properties. Really exciting to see this many jakes again!

That's what I do... mid July is when we put out cams on salt licks