Prorate jakes

[zelmo1]

I say for every 10 jakes you call in to 30 yards, you should get a Tom at 30 yards.    I am jaked up here something awful. There are toms, but these jakes are taking all the fun. Z

[guesswho]

I wish we had that "problem".   

[Greg Massey]

Great problem to have, next year's crop... IMO

[ferocious calls]

Be happy for the action. Doesn't seem like it when wading through jakes, but it is a great problem. He will come. Maybe.

[Marc]

Does anyone else feel that there are some locations/areas that tend to have higher jake to tom populations year after year?

Some years ago, I hunted a property that year after year had lots of jakes, and considerably less toms.

Pondering this some years later, either my turkey hunting skills were not adequate enough to call in those toms...  Or possibly there were preferable areas that toms claimed territory of, and the property I was on, was not as attractive so I had less dominate birds (i.e. jakes).

Hunting that property for years, the ration of jakes to toms was extremely skewed....

[guesswho]

My guess would be your surrounding areas wasn't at carrying capacity and the population just spread out  more and more each year.   

[Marc]

My guess would be your surrounding areas wasn't at carrying capacity and the population just spread out  more and more each year.

It was my understanding/impression, that once a tom estbalishes an area, he will return to the same area year after year, but jakes generally do not?  (At least until they establish their own territory)

[WV Flopper]

 I had that issue last year, they got older.

[g8rvet]

Called in 7 jakes and one tom during youth (great nephew missed)

Called in 5-8 jakes (just on other side of creek, could not see them but they were gobbling and it sounded like 400 jake gobbles - we laughed every time they did it) and called in a bird that slipped in from our side for my son in law.  He did not miss.  These were close enough it could have been the same gang.