Birds Calling Good

[bearpaw]

Been hunting the last week and can report that the birds are calling good right now. There is also lots of coyotes out right now. We saw 5 coyotes yesterday and called in 3 birds.
Good Luck.......

[Machias]

Thanks for the update, appreciate it!

[bearpaw]

If you go hunting take a coyote gun in your vehicle. Those yotes are really hard on the turkey chicks and deer fawns, there are way too many due to no fur markket for years.

[MuleyontheWall]

Thanks for the update...thats good to hear!

[bearpaw]

Cover lots of ground to find the right bird, the poulation has been hammered by wet hatches, hard winters, and too liberal of hunting seasons the last two years. Most of the wintering flocks this last winter were at about 25% to 35% of normal numbers and so you need to cover lots of ground to find your birds. Find the right bird and they are easy right now in the late morning or early afternoon.

[Machias]

"too liberal of hunting seasons the last two years."  AMEN!!

[Wacenturion]

There is an agenda to those liberal seasons.  WDFW would care less if you killed every bird up there. They use a few nuisance complaint to justify county wide either sex harvest and keep increasing it.  Next time they are discussing seasons, people better be calling the Game Commission and complaining.  Or better yet....just start complaining now.

[strutnrut1984]

yes this is the longest spring season i know of

[Phantom Gobbler]

Cover lots of ground to find the right bird, the poulation has been hammered by wet hatches, hard winters, and too liberal of hunting seasons the last two years. Most of the wintering flocks this last winter were at about 25% to 35% of normal numbers and so you need to cover lots of ground to find your birds. Find the right bird and they are easy right now in the late morning or early afternoon.

Bearpaw:  I agree 100%!! The NE bird numbers are really down in some areas and the WDFW better get a clue.  Too many new turkey hunters are hitting the spring woods every year and we need to manage our precious resource.  The same goes for Whitetail populations in the NE!

[Tom Tamer]

There is an agenda to those liberal seasons.  WDFW would care less if you killed every bird up there. They use a few nuisance complaint to justify county wide either sex harvest and keep increasing it.  Next time they are discussing seasons, people better be calling the Game Commission and complaining.  Or better yet....just start complaining now.

AMEN...everyone needs to get their voice heard we all got to stand up and fight this, your WDFW rep that heads the turkey dept. Wants nothing to do with turkeys anymore and is sick of the calls of complaint birds. they're trying to wash their hands of these birds and it makes me sick. as an active member of the NWTF whether you agree with that Org. or not, I'm going to do all I can to help habitat enhancements and other things we can do to either show the WDFW or usurp them in helping thes birds flourish. One way to tell the state how you feel DON'T try for those extra tags, the late permits and what not. Kind of a boycott thing?

[Pathfinder101]

hmmm...were kind of quiet down here last weekend.  Maybe I need to make a trip to Kettle Falls and visit mom...

[NWTFhunter]

Thanks  for the info Dale, and its good to see you on here !
Not sure if I am going to be able to get that far over again before the close, but will deff be out in the woods this long weekend.

Cameron

[bearpaw]

NE TURKEY UPDATE:

Birds are still calling but the worked birds are getting tougher, birds that will gobble are getting harder to find, seek out birds that have been overlooked, hot weather in mid-day shutting many birds down by noon.....Good Luck