NY numbers what's your take.

[jordanz7935]

And i saw another fisher today. 2 in as many days. The DEC needs to do something about them because when u see more fishers than turkeys in 2 days there's definitely a problem.

[troutfisher13111]

When my son and I saw a fisher last season he leaned over and whispered, "dad how do they taste"?

[NYGobblergetter]

I'm already done and called one in for my dad too. If that is any indication.

[mspaci]

here in dutchess  we hav seen a sharp decline on our properties. Mike

[TrackeySauresRex]

This was the topic on the drive home...... I've hunted 7m for about 8 years. My last trip which lasted a few days was a rough one. It reminded me of the days of old when there weren't too many turkeys around. This was the first time I probably never even worked a bird in that area at all. One spot  I did hear 3 or 4 birds going off on roost. However, we didn't have access too that particular peice. We even made a move to some state land close by covering lots of ground. We had also stumbled upon more than a few deer carcasses. During the thunder storms this morning birds were sounding,but not many and were far off. Not too many birds were spoted drying themselves in the fields on the way home either.  I think it's a combination of what everone is saying here. I do beleive there has been a major drop off in the population as well.       

[mikejd]

This was the topic on the drive home...... I've hunted 7m for about 8 years. My last trip which lasted a few days was a rough one. It reminded me of the days of old when there weren't too many turkeys around. This was the first time I probably never even worked a bird in that area at all. One spot  I did hear 3 or 4 birds going off on roost. However, we didn't have access too that particular peice. We even made a move to some state land close by covering lots of ground. We had also stumbled upon more than a few deer carcasses. During the thunder storms this morning birds were sounding,but not many and were far off. Not too many birds were spoted drying themselves in the fields on the way home either.  I think it's a combination of what everone is saying here. I do beleive there has been a major drop off in the population as well.       

I hunt 7M. And believe me the numbers are down. I  have at least 20 different spots I can hit on any day and usually can round up a bird or 2 to work. This year I heard maybe 5 gobbles in 8 strait days of hunting 7 to 8 hrs a day. Hen sightings were also way down. I hunt with a few guys and we all hunt as hard as physically possible. And when 3 guys come out a noon and say I did not hear a thing. Something is off.

[TrackeySauresRex]

This was the topic on the drive home...... I've hunted 7m for about 8 years. My last trip which lasted a few days was a rough one. It reminded me of the days of old when there weren't too many turkeys around. This was the first time I probably never even worked a bird in that area at all. One spot  I did hear 3 or 4 birds going off on roost. However, we didn't have access too that particular peice. We even made a move to some state land close by covering lots of ground. We had also stumbled upon more than a few deer carcasses. During the thunder storms this morning birds were sounding,but not many and were far off. Not too many birds were spoted drying themselves in the fields on the way home either.  I think it's a combination of what everone is saying here. I do beleive there has been a major drop off in the population as well.       

I hunt 7M. And believe me the numbers are down. I  have at least 20 different spots I can hit on any day and usually can round up a bird or 2 to work. This year I heard maybe 5 gobbles in 8 strait days of hunting 7 to 8 hrs a day. Hen sightings were also way down. I hunt with a few guys and we all hunt as hard as physically possible. And when 3 guys come out a noon and say I did not hear a thing. Something is off.

We're in Chenango. We only hunted 3 days and put 100 miles on my boots. We worked hard to get things going. Hopefully it bounces back quick. I've never saw it like that up there. Maybe part of Mother nature's 7 year cycle. We will find out more in the fall for sure.

[jordanz7935]

I have to agree with you guys about the numbers being way down. I hunt mainly otsego county and southern oneida county. You definitely don't see the numbers of turkeys driving around like you used to. Take this into consideration, I'm buddys with a couple of hunting guides. Just before season their boss told them to get out and find more birds because they just weren't seeing the numbers of birds in the fields like usual. Long story short, they found more birds.Where? In the big woods where theres still  acorns and beech nuts. A couple of my other buddys have been finding and killing hot gobblers on big tracts of state land. Maybe the late spring who knows why but i can tell you im seeing more sign in the big woods than anywhere else right now.That should change as spring progresses hopefully. But numbers are definately not what they used to be. If you guys are having trouble finding birds, P.M. me i might be able to put you on some.

[njdevilsb]

On the particular farm we hunt, we are seeing more than the previous few years but driving around we aren't seeing many where we normally would.

[steinea286]

I am also hoping that with fur prices up the last 2 years, that more people are trapping! We will see what happens...

[TauntoHawk]

Greene county, birds were defiantly not in fields much for the first three weeks of the season. We found plenty in the timber though, I guess you could say there were less than some years due to a harder winter but still lots of turkeys. Places we'd normally hear 8 birds we'd hear 4 ect.

My NY season lasted 5 days, my wife tagged out on two birds, one called for a veteran hunter, and two for myself. We even had one miss, and I left two birds walk that came in range where my wife couldn't swing on them and get a clean look. So we had 8 opportunities on mature birds in 5 days.

My hunting buddy tagged out early as well and has been taking others out on all but one day between regular season and youth weekend. His kill count of called in birds is at 14 as of this morning, 2 jakes and 12 toms as well as I believe he's had 3 ppl miss.

He said the birds didn't show in the big fields until last week he was getting them all killed in the big timber and small pocket pastures. We did see a lot of jakes more than I expected to so I think we'll bounce back rather quickly if the numbers are slightly down.

I don't know how they make it through rough winters but they do and it hasn't been a wet or overly hot spring so we should have a really nice hatch off this spring.

[mikejd]

Greene county, birds were defiantly not in fields much for the first three weeks of the season. We found plenty in the timber though, I guess you could say there were less than some years due to a harder winter but still lots of turkeys. Places we'd normally hear 8 birds we'd hear 4 ect.

My NY season lasted 5 days, my wife tagged out on two birds, one called for a veteran hunter, and two for myself. We even had one miss, and I left two birds walk that came in range where my wife couldn't swing on them and get a clean look. So we had 8 opportunities on mature birds in 5 days.

My hunting buddy tagged out early as well and has been taking others out on all but one day between regular season and youth weekend. His kill count of called in birds is at 14 as of this morning, 2 jakes and 12 toms as well as I believe he's had 3 ppl miss.

He said the birds didn't show in the big fields until last week he was getting them all killed in the big timber and small pocket pastures. We did see a lot of jakes more than I expected to so I think we'll bounce back rather quickly if the numbers are slightly down.


Thats good new. Glad to hear it was not ro bad out there.
I had my fear after the first 10 days that it would take a while to recover.
hopefully I was wrong.

I don't know how they make it through rough winters but they do and it hasn't been a wet or overly hot spring so we should have a really nice hatch off this spring.