Author Topic: Saw a turkey strutting today (Read 3845 times)

elmerross · « **on:** Mar 02, 2006, 07:13 PM »

Driving home from work this evening i saw about 40 turkeys in this field.And i stopped to glass them and a huge longbeard started strutting,i could not believe it.Being this early in the spring-winter.

crappie78 · « **Reply #1 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 07:18 PM »

Don't tell me that i have already got the itch for turkey season.

Mentiply · « **Reply #2 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 07:43 PM »

My parents have Turkey's in their back yard every day and they strutt all year longn No matter how many times I stop over and see them it never gets old.

NJ PIKER · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 07:44 PM »

You & me both
gobble-gobble

AirManCam · « **Reply #4 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 08:00 PM »

ilikepike and I have observed many turkeys strutting already..

AugustWest · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 08:22 PM »

Don't forget "Boys", the best fish are upon us any day

fish boy · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 08:44 PM »

Yeah enjoy it while you can, sounds like the weather's fixin to get warm. 70's in Pennsy next week. Might be time to take a day off or two next week.

hali-man · « **Reply #7 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 11:02 PM »

I love to fish, BUT the sight of turkeys will always get me going!

AugustWest · « **Reply #8 on:** Mar 02, 2006, 11:03 PM »

Quote from: fish boy on Mar 02, 2006, 08:44 PM

Yeah enjoy it while you can, sounds like the weather's fixin to get warm. 70's in Pennsy next week. Might be time to take a day off or two next week.

That's PA...Tom....not NY

How's your 'Gill catching been?
It would be nice to hook up

steelhead5 · « **Reply #9 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 04:34 AM »

the squirrels are what gets the fish on the ice not the struttin' turkeys. days you see squirrels on the way to the lake are better fishin' days.

vipercat64 · « **Reply #10 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 05:51 AM »

Quote from: crappie78 on Mar 02, 2006, 07:18 PM

Don't tell me that i have already got the itch for turkey season.

I've had that itch for awhile now...started when the ice got thin. Only two months left.

Rangerclay · « **Reply #11 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 06:34 AM »

I heard some clucking and one gobble when I was at the 3 Mile Bay derby last weekend.

I am starting to get the turkey hunting itch

Ranger

CNY Lee · « **Reply #12 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 07:51 AM »

Between working, spring fishing and turkey hunting (which I love the most) my lady only see's me in the bed sleeping. The strutting is only a dominate thing going on right now but I still love to see them strutting and gobble no matter what.

fish boy · « **Reply #13 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 08:51 AM »

Quote from: CNY Lee on Mar 03, 2006, 07:51 AM

Between working, spring fishing and turkey hunting (which I love the most) my lady only see's me in the bed sleeping. The strutting is only a dominate thing going on right now but I still love to see them strutting and gobble no matter what.

Well of course its only a dominance thing if they were nesting now they be penquins

fish boy · « **Reply #14 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 08:59 AM »

Quote from: AugustWest on Mar 02, 2006, 11:03 PM

That's PA...Tom....not NY
How's your 'Gill catching been?
It would be nice to hook up

It can't stay cold forever. I've got walleyes to squeeze and taters to plant! Gill catching has been tough Caz was Sloooow last time I was there, put the back out recently so have been on the injured reserve for a while. Tried the nite bite last Friday and came up with the same you guys did the other day we left when the lightening started

. I know I know Wimps! Did notice one thing about the crappies i did catch on Caz. They are full of scuds and insects. Thats a good sign, I've always found them to be much more catchable when they're eating bugs than minnows. Oh and yeah "Hookin" up would be nice

JeffreyKrow · « **Reply #15 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 12:31 PM »

Quote from: Rangerclay on Mar 03, 2006, 06:34 AM

I heard some clucking and one gobble when I was at the 3 Mile Bay derby last weekend.

I am starting to get the turkey hunting itch

Ranger

You must have been at Guffins Bay. I was there also until the blizzard drove me off. I heard the gobbles early in the morning coming off the roost. Saw the toms the other day. They are some big brutes around that neighborhood. Get there early in the morning and it looks like a deer farm too. Deer just standing around eating and watching you drive by like cattle.
JK

aaron719 · « **Reply #16 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 02:12 PM »

HERE FISHY FISHY FISHY $:-\$

BUCKSKI · « **Reply #17 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 02:36 PM »

Man love to hear about that!
Boy the best fishing is still to come.
HEY NYERS LETS GET SOME FISH ON THE TOURNEY !!!!! TIRED OF HEARING A BUNCH ON FOOLS !!!!!!!!
Hopefully I can get another big tom like last year!!!!!!

MikeVT · « **Reply #18 on:** Mar 03, 2006, 02:37 PM »

Mmmmm, wild turkey with cranberry stuffing and giblet gravy. Wait, there are still lakers to ice!!!

Chucker · « **Reply #19 on:** Mar 04, 2006, 07:08 AM »

No turkeys here in Rochester, but there's a woodchuck across the creek right now, and it's only 24° out.

vipercat64 · « **Reply #20 on:** Mar 04, 2006, 09:11 AM »

A woodchuck? Was he in the death pose? You know, standing up and looking for the angel of death.

hali-man · « **Reply #21 on:** Mar 04, 2006, 09:50 AM »

I sniped two woodchucks right out of my bathroom window this past summer.
As long as the barrel is kept inside no one can tell where the shot came from.

aaron719 · « **Reply #22 on:** Mar 06, 2006, 07:29 AM »

no offense gentlemen, and i love turkey hunting too, but this is an ICE FISHING site.

BUCKSKI · « **Reply #23 on:** Mar 06, 2006, 10:29 AM »

Quote from: hali-man on Mar 04, 2006, 09:50 AM

I sniped two woodchucks right out of my bathroom window this past summer.
As long as the barrel is kept inside no one can tell where the shot came from.

Were you on a grassy knoll too?

hali-man · « **Reply #24 on:** Mar 06, 2006, 10:31 AM »

Um, what?

OTIS · « **Reply #25 on:** Mar 06, 2006, 10:59 AM »

Quote from: hali-man on Mar 04, 2006, 09:50 AM

I sniped two woodchucks right out of my bathroom window this past summer.
As long as the barrel is kept inside no one can tell where the shot came from.

This tactic works well for cats also!

aaron719 · « **Reply #26 on:** Mar 06, 2006, 12:27 PM »

how about some FISHING talk, on this ICE FISHING site! $:-\$

vipercat64 · « **Reply #27 on:** Mar 06, 2006, 06:47 PM »

Quote from: aaron719 on Mar 06, 2006, 12:27 PM

how about some FISHING talk, on this ICE FISHING site! $:-\$

Okay, while out on the ice yesterday, I saw a turkey strutting in front of a woodchuck standing in the death pose. Some guy in the house on the hill smoked him from a window in his house. It was a heck of a shot, the turkey flew off, and that is when I noticed the three flags, and got a hit on my jig, all at the same time.

We are simply noticing the coming of spring, and the impending end of a disappointing ice fishing year.

hali-man · « **Reply #28 on:** Mar 06, 2006, 06:50 PM »

Well put!

lundprov17 · « **Reply #29 on:** Mar 07, 2006, 05:56 PM »

Vipercat64, you such a way with words.

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