The free HuntFish OH mobile app provides convenient resources while out in the field beyond the game check.
#Thehunter call of the wild turkey license#
the day of harvest using the automated game-check system, which is available at , through the HuntFish OH app, by phone at 877-TAG-IT-OH (87), or at a participating license agent. The spring season is open statewide, except for Lake La Su An Wildlife Area in Williams County, which requires a special hunting permit.Ī turkey is required to be checked no later than 11:30 p.m. The 2022 spring wild turkey season ends on Sunday, May 22 in the south zone, and Sunday, May 29, in the northeast zone consisting of Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Trumbull counties. Spring turkey hunting opened statewide in 2000, and Ohio hunters checked more than 20,000 turkeys for the first time that year. The turkey harvest topped 1,000 for the first time in 1984. Ohio’s first modern day turkey season opened in 1966 in nine counties, and hunters checked 12 birds.
Wild turkeys were extirpated in Ohio by 1904, but were reintroduced in the 1950s by the Division of Wildlife. Ohio hunters harvested 14,546 wild turkeys during the 2021 spring season including 1,463 turkeys checked during the two-day youth season.Įastern and southern counties typically record the highest number of harvested birds. Ohio is divided into two zones for the spring hunting - the local south zone and a northeast zone, which opens to hunters on Saturday, April 30. In 2021, Noble County youth checked 51 birds followed closely by Guernsey County with 50. Monroe County led the way with 41 followed by Coshocton, 38 Jefferson, 34 Harrison, Tuscarawas and Muskingum, 32 apiece Noble and Columbiana, 31 each and Gallia and Guernsey, 28 apiece. Guernsey and Noble counties ranked among the top 10 counties for turkeys harvested during the youth season. The three-year average for turkeys taken during the two-day youth season is 1,545. Last year, youth hunters harvested 1,473 turkeys. “As a reminder, the 2022 spring season limit is one gobbler for all hunters.”ĭuring the recent youth season (April 9-10), hunters checked 1,103 birds. “The spring wild turkey hunting season is one of Ohio’s most exciting times to be afield, and we anticipate that 50,000 licensed hunters will participate this year,” said Division of Wildlife Chief Kendra Wecker. Muskingum County with 373 birds checked rounded out the top 10. Guernsey County hunters trailed only Columbiana, 454 Belmont, 444 Meigs, 437 Tuscarawas, 417 Jefferson, 408 Monroe, 408 Ashtabula, 401 and Washington, 398, last year, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. After ranking ninth statewide a year ago with 378 wild turkeys harvested during the spring season, Guernsey County hunters will return to the woods on Saturday, April 23 for the start of Ohio's 2022 spring turkey hunting season.
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