Anybody working any feeders?

[NWTFhunter]

Yeah I know, I was on three of those plants that I remember, maybe more. I know I was on some of the Tampico, Rattlesnake, and Teanaway plants. My dad was the chp. president of the Yakima chp, which is who did those plants. I was just wondering if anybody was doing that anymore?

Not sure what the current status of trapping is, but if you call Dave he could answer your ?'s

[PA BEN]

Yeah I know, I was on three of those plants that I remember, maybe more. I know I was on some of the Tampico, Rattlesnake, and Teanaway plants. My dad was the chp. president of the Yakima chp, which is who did those plants. I was just wondering if anybody was doing that anymore?

I heard 4 years ago before I left Chewelah, that the Game Dept. didn't want to deal with the damage complants that turkey's cause, and quit funding the program. It's totally up to privet funding to trap and transport. If they plant them and they cause damage people blame the game Dept. No one pays my Dad (THE FAMER) for the wheat that the turkey's eat and destroy. They became a big problem in some area's. BTW, the game Dept. found a way to make more money off of tags and local business's make a lot of money off of the turkey's

[fishunt247]

Alright thanks. Too bad they don't want to fund it anymore, some of those plants worked extremely well. Others, fair at best. It would be nice to put fresh blood into some of these flocks though.

[Turkeyman]

To bad we all cant work togethere so we can have birds like Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, all these states have allot of farmers and a ton of turkeys.

[NWTFhunter]

Ben, actually the chapters of the NWTF got the WDFW to start the current turkey tag sales.  We agreed to split the $ with them with the agreement that that money be used strickly for conservation work, not to go to the general fund.
Ca regional biologist is trying to implement the same thing there with tons of opposistion.

[fishunt247]

Seems this thread has gone into a general discussion of turkey...and I love it. I've been talking about it to my roommate all day. To add to the randomness, I think getting rid of the free turkey tag was the greatest thing our game dept has done, ever. Obviously for the reasons you stated, for sure, turkeys need our money/efforts too. And it got rid of some of the craziness of those free tag years. We saw some guys in jeans and flannels hunting them like they were pheasants... pushers working down a canyon, blockers at the bottom or top. It was nuts. The number of guys in the field since we went back to buying them seems fewer to me.

[NWTFhunter]

That was one of the top issues in discussion.  It seemed that some people thought just because they held a tag that they would give it a try with no knowlege of what the hell they were doing. 

[Turkeyman]

Best thing that has happend I'm surprised no body got killed.

[fishunt247]

No joke. Like what modern elk is (or so I hear). And though I am a somewhat selfish man, its great that a few more people got into the sport, because it is great. Hopefully a few that got in it for the right reasons stuck with it and the "other" guys quit.