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Steve Piatt: Sometimes, it’s best to turn the attention from turkeys to trout

Tired of rising at 4 a.m. – or earlier – only to return home wet and cold, hear very little in the way of gobbling, and be entertained only by several jakes drifting into and flogging our lone hen decoy, we were looking forward to a relaxing week and fishing on banker’s hours. (Photo by Steve Piatt)

Cutting short our spring gobbler season by a few days has become a standard routine for wife, Paula, and me, albeit one that always leads to concerns I’ll encounter a strutting longbeard with a fly-rod in my hand instead of my Remington 870.
It has happened before. Coming off Schrader Creek one beautiful late-May morning in Pennsylvania – comfortably within legal shooting hours – I rounded a bend in the old railroad grade that parallels the stream tight to the Bradford-Sullivan county line to the sight of a gobbler, in full strut, downright glowing in the sun.

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