A buddy and I are going to be camping at rend lake next week and hunting 5th season at 10 mile creek. In the afternoon I think we are going to be doin some fishin, mainly for cats but I wouldn't mind some crappie(never tried for these). My question-- are the birds gobblin good or is it hit and miss?

I was in Pope county last weekend which is quite a bit further south and the birds were pretty vocal on the limb but would get pretty quiet after fly down until they lost their hens. Called in 2 gobblers...one at around 730 am and one at 1100 am. MISSED BOTH! See my other thread for the full story. I'd recommend hunting until 1:00pm and keep moving until you get one to respond unless you have done alot of scouting and know when and where the birds are gonna show. They were henned-up pretty bad down in Pope.

Best of luck,

Joe

Check out Bam's thread from last weekend at Rend. http://www.siloutdoors.com/showthread.php?t=5007

Check out Bam's thread from last weekend at Rend. http://www.siloutdoors.com/showthread.php?t=5007

Maybe I should have went turkey hunting instead.....:rolleyes: I didnt think I was quite enough for that......lol

The activity is pretty good down in union county. IF I could catch a break from the mushroom hunters tromping through the woods, 3 days I've had then come walking by now an scared 2 birds off that i know of. :( But the turkeys are out there an willing :)

You should've heard em' gobbling when the thunder was booming this morning. Every time it rolled it was followed up with a big old gobble.

I am 30 miles east and killed one today. gobbling good on thr limb, first hour is none productive but along about 9am there working good. my son killed one at 10 sunday, mine today was 8;30

Todd
Glad to hear you & Jake are still having good luck with those Toms. :)

I got one to play this morning. I roosted two longbeards last night. This morning, I set up on them, but don't know if it was the 17 deer or the coyote that made 'em fly down the other way. I circled around to another field and had one 'do it right'. I called twice and he cut me off both times. When I called the third time, he popped over the hill in my lap. He was a nice 2yo. Turkey for dinner. It was hard to hear any gobbling in the wind, though. These other guys are right....hunt until 1 or your tag is full whichever comes first. They're losing hens to the nests mid morning now.