Good.... There is a fairly good Turkey population.
Bad...... The Turkey get scouted and hunted a lot and my experience is that they are very hard to call in. I have found where a Tom roost one day and when I check back other days there is no gobbling. The property is easy to hunt from the road. Almost all the property has a road where you can be less than 1/2 mile from the farthest spot. So if you find a Tom gobbling.... so can 25 other people. There is no spot where you can walk 1+ miles to get away from other hunters.
Last year, I found a spot that had Toms go to roost [Gobbled] in 4 different spots about 700 yards apart. Next morning, only one gobbled an hour after daylight a 1/4+ mile from the roost.
Clear Creek has had hogs for a long long time, but there are a lot more now than just a couple years ago. The Coyote population is also fairly good judging by the tracks along the roads and hearing them sometimes.
I was not going to hunt CC last Turkey season..... told myself, I was going to hunt somewhere else. But I did put CC down as my 2 nd choice in the lottery.... and I got picked to hunt there. Opening morning I got there very early and as I started walking another vehicle came but turned around and went somewhere else. A Tom had roosted in a tall pine tree on 2 different days, but was not there that morning.
Here are a few pic. The Turkey are there but IMO very hard to kill one. I have killed a fair amount of Toms.... but not at CC.
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