BY FREDDIE McKNIGHT FALLING BACK ON SPRING TURKEY I PULLED ONTO the farm lane to see dozens of geese in a picked cornfield - a welcome sight that highlighted the potential for a great hunt tomorrow morning. But I had a dilemma on my hands. While the geese were working the top of the field, nearly four dozen turkeys were working the bottom. With tomorrow the first day of the fall turkey season, I had a decision to make. Watching both flocks, I called my sons. The geese soon were in the air, headed toward the river to roost, and while the turkeys stuck around longer, they started DRAWING FA L L BIRDS TACTICS to pitch up to roost along a nearby creek as darkness set in. My sons and I talked things over. I'd been hobbled by a bad knee and was only days away from surgery. This certainly would be my only opportunity at a fall turkey. I figured I'd be able to hunt geese just a few weeks after surgery. The answer seemed obvious: we were going turkey hunting. The field the birds were using was about 100 acres and contained a couple of spring-fed ponds. Other than a thin strip of trees along the stream that bordered the farm, there was no cover. TO BLINDS & DECOYS NOVEMBER 2018 45