LBL

[wkyhunter]

Looks like LBL has really dropped the ball on upcoming season. 2 -3 day adult quota hunts ( one prior to state opener) and 6 day open season.
Last year they had 2-2 day adult quota hunts and a 3 week open season.

 

[knightrider]

Low numbers needs less hunting?

 

[Buzzard Breath]

Low numbers needs less hunting?

^^^This^^^

LBL needs to can the whole turkey hunt for a few years and hope the turkeys can rebound. IMO

 

[Rakkin6]

^^^This^^^

LBL needs to can the whole turkey hunt for a few years and hope the turkeys can rebound. IMO

Need to start letting hunters go up there and lay some scunion down on the hog population. I wonder how much damage those things have done to the population.

 

[AT Hiker]

LBL is such a heart breaker. I have vivid memories of camping with my wife and new born daughter (10 years ago). I'd get up and hunt a couple hours before they got out of the tent. I honestly cannot remember a hunt where I didn't at least hear one gobble.
Fast forward to last year and I put in countless miles and never once cut a track, let alone hear one.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

I'm glad to see the 3 day quota hunt. I hope to draw. The open hunt probably needs to go away for awhile.

 

[TnKen]

I used to hunt LBL when I was in college. It was the first place ever heard tukeys gobbling .

 

[Pic IN the Casa]

Is it a coyote issue? A hog issue? Or both?

 

[Rakkin6]

Is it a coyote issue? A hog issue? Or both?

I am betting both. It is getting overrun with hogs. I see them when I am on the boat fishing with buddy.

 

[Billboy]

I have not seen a turkey in 4 years on our annual weeklong archery hunt in early Nov. I did hear a few hens last fall one morning. I think the hogs are really hurting the population, they will eat anything. The number of hog sightings is thru the roof!

 

[Dover_Mike]

Is it a coyote issue? A hog issue? Or both?

Hogs, habitat loss, and minimal farming would be my guess. The hogs are running rampant down there, cannot even hike a trail without seeing sign or an actual hog and the tornados and big storms we have had the last 4-5 years have hurt the hardwoods. I remember 20-30 years ago that place used to be pristine with farming and agriculture, something has shifted and a lot of the fields are overgrown and have become nothing more than briar thickets. Brooding ground is not what it used to be. Birds are still there but they are nothing like it once was for sure

 

[Popcorn]

The direct result of textbook environmentalists running a federally funded property while not having any common sense, real world application experience or consideration that they may be completely WRONG!

Hog presence and damage is secondary to the damage done by those in charge at the forestry service. Zero Forrest management ! Lots of people fear a wildfire there.
Controlled burns have been needed for many years