Turkey or Trout

[wollelybugger]

I have only two days to hunt Turkey due to work but yesterday I opted to catch Trout. I was using my favorite fly, bead headed Wolleybugger, and caught over twenty trout. I only have one more week to get a Turkey but usually have good luck the final week. I am going to hunt all morning at least one day next week. It has been a tough season, nobody is doing very good and the turkeys have lockjaw. Good luck to the rest of you and shoot straight.      

[BCWV]

I feel your pain wollely, I want to turkey hunt but the native brookies are calling to me. They are starting to hit black parachute hares ears down my way.

[BrianfromTulsa]

Why don't you fellas do both?  I like to hunt turkeys early and fish in the evenings, makes for a great full day

[wollelybugger]

Mrs Wollelybugger has something to say about that. I usually have a long list of things to do. We got to mow the yard twice a week in the spring time, and I just got my garden ready to go. I am glad I retired and only work part time.  

[tmccall]

Good for you.   Our turkey season is over and I've got a cabin rented for tomorrow evening on a trout stream.  My boys and I are headed up bright and early to spend a couple of days at the river!  I just hope the rain will hold off for a while.

[snag]

Well if it were me, since I have just shot my first turkey with a recurve, I would be making some wet flies with the turkey feathers and heading to the river.  But I still have one more turkey to shoot and then I will have all summer for fishing...and scouting.

[acolobowhunter]

Turkey season did not go well for me this year.  I don't know why.  Set up my blind in the same place ( for at least 7-8 yrs).  Used the same decoys, and calls.  The turkeys just walked around me and would not come into my decoys.  I have never had that problem before.
So, now I am getting the flyrod and float tube ready.  Have been tying flies all winter.  Guess the bow will get a rest for a while.  

[snag]

Acolobowhunter, sounds like they are getting wise after 7-8 yrs of seeing their brothers getting arrowed!  

[Yelloweye]

Pondering that question right now. Heavy rain here in E. Pa last night. Birds been quite the last two weeks. Wolleybuggers are also my favorite next to a bead head nymph, but beadhead woolly, got to find me some of them.  Trout or Birds, with the high water I think birds one more time

[RC]

South Ga. is sweet. Turkey hunt in the morning, pig hunt the afternoon and catch catfish at night....hard work.RC

[tarponnut]

Turkeys early, trout in the afternoon.
What a day!

I did basically the same thing here in Florida(in March).
Turkeys early, tarpon late.
Fly:White deer hair slider. When it disappears, strip strike!

[DV of WI]

Originally posted by acolobowhunter:
Turkey season did not go well for me this year.  I don't know why.  Set up my blind in the same place ( for at least 7-8 yrs).  Used the same decoys, and calls.  The turkeys just walked around me and would not come into my decoys.  I have never had that problem before.
So, now I am getting the flyrod and float tube ready.  Have been tying flies all winter.  Guess the bow will get a rest for a while.    

[DV of WI]

It's obvious you killed the dumb gene pool.

[Stone Knife]

The birds around here have had lock jaw all week, same thing this morning. I should have gone fishing.

[wollelybugger]

It is going to be turkey tomorrow and the next day. My buddy talked me into a Mtn. hunt, he uses a compound, a Mathews I think but it his first year with a bow. I am pretty excited, we have killed a lot of birds hunting together the last week of the season. Run and gun with a few dekes and some aggressive calling if the birds are talking, quiet purrs and clucks  if they are shy.

[bear1336]

Turkey season over here time for trout and hogs.