Where I turkey hunt it is mostly open fields.. All but about four acres of white pine that jut out into the field. So I always set up at the bottom of this little hill on the edge of the field in the corner where them pines come out. Them turkey like to roost up on that hill in the pines. So I get out early, set my decoys at 30 yards from me, and kind of melt into the under growth and feed the bugs... When then come, they come from behind, so I have a big tree that I put my back to. One year I had a hen walk right next to me, I mean I could have grabbed her and choked her she was so close. When she stopped and looked at me, I though I was going to die. But she wandered out to the decoys and pretty soon the old man showed up and I flattened him.
I talked to the farmer already, and he said it was a bad year on the birds because of the deep snow, but he thinks there are still a few of them around. So the end of April is not that far away.