Monday, April 2, 2018

First Youth Season Shows Decrease in Turkey Season

While Capitol Outdoors and countless other high school anglers were being knocked around by high winds on Saturday, the woods and fields had youth striving for that elusive turkey.  Below you'll see the numbers for the 2018 first youth turkey season and as you can see there was a decrease which we believe had a lot to do with the weather.

The calendar says Spring, but Winter holds on for First Youth Turkey Season



From the Illinois DNR Division of Wildlife Resources:
Youth hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 664 turkeys during the opening weekend of the 2018 Youth Spring Turkey Season (March 31-April 1), compared to 776 during the first weekend in 2017.

The second weekend of the youth turkey season is April 7-8. For more information on turkey hunting in Illinois, go online at https://www.dnr.illinois.gov/hunting/Pages/TurkeyHunting.aspx
First weekend county results for the youth turkey season are below:

County
2017
2018
Adams
13
24
Alexander
5
8
Bond
12
3
Boone
2
2
Brown
14
10
Bureau
3
8
Calhoun
9
8
Carroll
2
6
Cass
8
8
Champaign
2
1
Christian
0
2
Clark
6
6
Clay
14
9
Clinton
6
9
Coles
4
1
Crawford
10
11
Cumberland
4
4
DeWitt
4
3
Edgar
3
3
Edwards
6
6
Effingham
9
8
Fayette
26
20
Franklin
9
4
Fulton
22
11
Gallatin
8
9
Greene
7
7
Grundy
4
1
Hamilton
17
10
Hancock
5
21
Hardin
5
6
Henderson
8
4
Henry
1
6
Iroquois
2
5
Jackson
25
14
Jasper
7
2
Jefferson
30
19
Jersey
10
7
JoDaviess
11
15
Johnson
15
5
Kankakee
0
1
Kendall
1
0
Knox
16
9
LaSalle
3
4
Lawrence
8
5
Lee
6
4
Livingston
0
3
Logan
6
1
Macon
3
0
Macoupin
15
18
Madison
7
7
Marion
19
15
Marshall
0
2
Mason
8
7
Massac
9
2
McDonough
6
2
McHenry
3
6
McLean
3
1
Menard
4
3
Mercer
9
16
Monroe
7
7
Montgomery
13
10
Morgan
10
5
Moultrie
1
0
Ogle
4
9
Peoria
1
1
Perry
17
18
Pike
18
16
Pope
7
0
Pulaski
3
7
Putnam
1
1
Randolph
26
23
Richland
4
0
Rock Island
6
7
Saline
15
2
Sangamon
4
4
Schuyler
15
10
Scott
2
3
Shelby
5
6
St. Clair
6
13
Stephenson
4
9
Tazewell
5
3
Union
31
15
Vermilion
1
3
Wabash
5
0
Warren
4
1
Washington
15
11
Wayne
17
16
White
17
9
Whiteside
6
3
Will
2
3
Williamson
25
10
Winnebago
1
6
Woodford
4
1
Total
776
644


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