Friday, October 19, 2001
COLUMBUS -- Turkey hunters harvested 1,489 wild turkeys during the first five days of Ohio's sixth annual fall wild turkey hunting season that opened on Oct. 13 and will run through Oct. 28, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
This fall hunters are able to hunt turkeys in 32 counties.
Ashtabula, Geauga, Licking, and Trumbull were added this year for the first time for the fall turkey hunt. The final tally for last fall's nine-day hunting turkey hunting season was 2,428. An additional week was added to this year's fall turkey hunting season, giving hunters 16 days .
Fall wild turkey season hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset. The bag limit is one turkey of either sex per hunter, per season.
ODNR reminds hunters that the season will partially overlap the Special Area Primitive Season (Oct. 22-27) deer hunt on three state-owned areas: Wildcat Hollow, Salt Fork Wildlife Area, and Shawnee State Forest. Turkey hunting will not be allowed on these areas during the primitive hunting season.