Really I am not being modest, this was a really small tom or you could say a huge Jake but not a big one by any means. The boy was excited with this one. The thing came running down the hill and got near the bottom and then got spooked. I was out of the blind 15 yards down the hill but i think the boy was moving around a lot in the blind. Then a hen made a call over the hill and he started going that way so I had to really call like mad to stop him. He spent 10 minutes in one spot puttin, struttin, and gobbling before he finally decided to make that extra 15 yards toward us. Bottom line, he put on a good show for the boy. Next week we will go out again and see what we can do. It is getting a little late in the season and I am also convinced we lost a LOT of birds this winter due to the deep snow and thick ice layer. Last fall they were like carp, now they are much fewer.
