If the rest
of Ohio’s spring wild turkey hunting goes as well as it did during the
just-concluded two-day/youth-only hunt, a lot of Thanksgiving Day roaster pans
will be preparing dinner.
And it
appears that adults will be pitching in to help save the lives of
Butterball-brand, store-bought turkeys. These hunters enjoyed tremendous success
during the general spring turkey-hunting season on Monday, April 24th.
Ohio’s
two-day youth-only season ran April 22nd and 23rd. Young guns age 17
and younger shot and killed 1,895 bearded birds. That figure is up 331 birds
from the 1,564 turkeys shot during the 2016 two-day/youth-only hunt.
Other youth
hunt statistics point to the notation
that of Ohio’s 88 counties, only five failed to record any birds taken:
Cuyahoga, Ottawa, Fayette, Madison, and Pickaway counties.
Also, of
Ohio’s 88 counties, 48 of them posted increases, 27 recorded declines and the
remainder posted identical – though still preliminary - 2016 season and 2017
youth-only season tallies.
The counties which reported turkey kills of at
least 50 birds each – and with their respective 2016 two-day/youth-only numbers
in parentheses - were: Muskingum – 82 (33); Monroe – 71 (51); Coshocton – 63
(34); Washington – 58 (52); Harrison also 58 (39); Tuscarawas – 56 (44); Noble
– 55 (also 55); and Ashtabula – 50 (44).
Today –
April 24th - marks the start of Ohio’s general spring wild turkey
hunting season for 83 of Ohio’s 88 counties. It concludes in these counties May
21st.
The general
spring wild turkey hunting season for the extreme Northeast Ohio counties of
Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula and Trumbull will run May 1st
through May 28th.
In all cases
of the general spring wild turkey-hunting seasons the season bag limit is two
bearded birds, but only one per day. Besides a general Ohio hunting license a
special spring-only turkey permit is required for each bird.
In the case
of the spring general season opener on Monday, hunters killed 3,123 bearded
wild turkeys. Even without the five extreme Northeast Ohio counties that figure
is still 612 more birds than were shot during the 2016 spring season opener
when 2,511 turkeys were killed.
Here is the
list of county-by-county turkeys killed during the 2017 spring season opener
April 24th. Remember that the season is still closed in Cuyahoga,
Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula and Trumbull counties until May 1st.
The counties’ 2016 opening day results are in parentheses:
Adams: 92 (56); Allen: 8 (11); Ashland: 41 (24); Ashtabula: * (85); Athens: 61
(42); Auglaize: 8 (8); Belmont: 81 (73); Brown: 66 (47); Butler: 36 (27);
Carroll: 91 (53); Champaign: 19 (12); Clark: 4 (2); Clermont: 75 (56); Clinton:
9 (9); Columbiana: 54 (50); Coshocton: 123 (72); Crawford: 8 (15); Cuyahoga: *
(2); Darke: 5 (4); Defiance: 47 (50); Delaware: 17 (11); Erie: 4 (8);
Fairfield: 16 (14); Fayette: 4 (0); Franklin: 4 (3); Fulton: 19 (15); Gallia:
69 (47); Geauga: * (36); Greene: 2 (4); Guernsey: 108 (67); Hamilton: 18 (18);
Hancock: 6 (5); Hardin: 14 (13); Harrison: 92 (67); Henry: 8 (8); Highland: 86
(49); Hocking: 66 (46); Holmes: 58 (40); Huron: 31 (17); Jackson: 57 (48);
Jefferson: 54 (60); Knox: 85 (52); Lake: * (6); Lawrence: 45 (38); Licking: 81
(46); Logan: 27 (13); Lorain: 22 (20); Lucas: 8 (13); Madison: 1 (3); Mahoning:
32 (30); Marion: 4 (8); Medina: 19 (18); Meigs: 84 (63); Mercer: 7 (2); Miami:
4 (1); Monroe: 83 (57); Montgomery: 5 (4); Morgan: 66 (32); Morrow: 37 (30);
Muskingum: 89 (67); Noble: 72 (42); Ottawa: 0 (0); Paulding: 19 (17); Perry: 48
(48); Pickaway: 4 (2); Pike: 37 (38); Portage: 38 (30); Preble: 14 (22);
Putnam: 9 (8); Richland: 39 (43); Ross: 70 (53); Sandusky: 4 (4); Scioto: 53
(32); Seneca: 27 (21); Shelby: 5 (12); Stark: 43 (31); Summit: 7 (9); Trumbull:
* (72); Tuscarawas: 115 (69); Union: 6 (9); Van Wert: 7 (4); Vinton: 70 (33);
Warren: 16 (12); Washington: 78 (58); Wayne: 21 (18); Williams: 41 (39); Wood:
2 (0); Wyandot: 18 (8). Total: 3,123 (2,511).By Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischk@Ameritech.net
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