Take a kid turkey hunting this weekend

This weekend is Youth Spring Turkey Hunt Weekend in Florida.

This Saturday-Sunday hunt, which occurs the weekend prior to the opening of spring turkey season in each hunting zone, was established in 2011 on private property.

It was such a huge success that this year the two-day hunt also is included on 78 of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s wildlife management areas.

Only youths under 16 years old are allowed to harvest a turkey while supervised by an adult, 18 years or older.

On private land, no license or permit is required of the youth or supervising adult, unless the adult plans to help “call-in” the bird or otherwise participate in the hunt.

In that case, the supervisor will need a hunting license and turkey permit.

To prevent overcrowding, most of the 78 participating wildlife management areas require a youth spring turkey quota permit, and if the adult supervisor is going to attempt to call in a bird on any of these wildlife management areas, he or she also will need a management area permit in addition to the hunting license and turkey permit.

There are still youth spring turkey quota permits available for some areas, and they can be obtained by those hunters under 16 years of age on a first-come, first-served basis at MyFWC.com/License or at a license agent, beginning at 10 a.m. EST on March 8^th.

There are also 23 wildlife management areas that do not require a quota permit.

That includes the Apalachicola.

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