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Hunter-gatherer bags big day on spring gobbler opener

An opening-day tom turkey and a bag full of morels: spring is here for Spokane-area hunter and fly-fishing guide G.L. Britton. (Courtesy)
An opening-day tom turkey and a bag full of morels: spring is here for Spokane-area hunter and fly-fishing guide G.L. Britton. (Courtesy)

HUNTING -- Opening-day reports are rolling in from Inland Northwest wild turkey hunters.

Family firsts, gobbler doubles and other memory-making hunts are already in the history books and the season runs until the end of May.

None so far is any better than the report from Spokane-are fly fishing guide G.L. Britton, who tells most of the story with the photo above:   Gobbler and morels -- a true hunter-gatherer delight.

"I can't believe I noticed the morels while I was stumbling down a ridge towards distant gobbling at 7 a.m.!" he said.

The rest of Britton's story?

Then we drove home, and worked the trout over in Long Lake for an hour. Still home before noon!



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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