Have to say this doesn't appear to be a good year to bring that up. Spent last weekend at my home in lower half of unit 121 and bird population in that area seems to be way down this year. Kinda thought that during the winter when I was over there, but two days of looking around and I didn't see anywhere near the birds I saw last year. Granted the weather was kind of crappy, especially Sunday, but I know the area pretty well and several of the normal hot spots had no birds. Problem seems to me that once WDFW changes those types of bag limits they have a tendency to stick with them even when the populations don't justify it. Turkeys just seem to be an afterthought to them anyway. If this turns out to be another cold, wet spring I really think they need to look hard at that fall hen hunt - could be the birds were just hunkered down this past weekend, but I kind of doubt that totally justifies the lack of birds I saw. Looks to be a tough opening weekend between the few birds and the crappy weather forecast-don't anticipate anyone will be getting far off the main roads-side roads were really sloppy Sunday and it was snowing when you got very high up.
