Wally Dog
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Clearwater region Idaho 4/22-23.
Birds were communicating sparingly, but my bass fishing partner and I each whacked longbeards. His more "eastern" marked and mine a "mutt".
They were both harvested out of the "turkey silo" blind that I have touted on this forum in the past.
Saturday my partner passed on 4 jakes waiting for a mature bird and his patience paid off.
I too had no interest in a "longtail" so after moving the blind Saturday afternoon we returned to shower up and attend the 1rst ever NWTF banquet in Orofino,ID. They put on a great show and we contributed to their success.
Sunday morning found us a little "red-eyed" but in the silo prior to flydown time. After a couple of distant responses to my calling and 10 minutes I called softly on my Roberts Bros. wormy chestnut glass call and he thundered from 50 yds or so, just out of sight. Several more soft helps brought him in all of his splendor to 25yds where he met his waterloo. He carried the thickest beard I've seen on a western bird. Undoubtedly a result of some eastern genetics he carried.
We opened April 15 and for the first time since 1983 I missed the opener due to my mother-in-laws passing and our road trip to western MN for her burial. The upside was on Easter Sunday morning I got an Otter Tail County longbeard to answer my calling 30 times from my brothers truck!
Birds were communicating sparingly, but my bass fishing partner and I each whacked longbeards. His more "eastern" marked and mine a "mutt".
They were both harvested out of the "turkey silo" blind that I have touted on this forum in the past.
Saturday my partner passed on 4 jakes waiting for a mature bird and his patience paid off.
I too had no interest in a "longtail" so after moving the blind Saturday afternoon we returned to shower up and attend the 1rst ever NWTF banquet in Orofino,ID. They put on a great show and we contributed to their success.
Sunday morning found us a little "red-eyed" but in the silo prior to flydown time. After a couple of distant responses to my calling and 10 minutes I called softly on my Roberts Bros. wormy chestnut glass call and he thundered from 50 yds or so, just out of sight. Several more soft helps brought him in all of his splendor to 25yds where he met his waterloo. He carried the thickest beard I've seen on a western bird. Undoubtedly a result of some eastern genetics he carried.
We opened April 15 and for the first time since 1983 I missed the opener due to my mother-in-laws passing and our road trip to western MN for her burial. The upside was on Easter Sunday morning I got an Otter Tail County longbeard to answer my calling 30 times from my brothers truck!