
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 21, 1991                   TAG: 9104220011
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: D11   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Bill Cochran
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

3 TOMS TAKEN IN HOUR'S HUNT

When sunny weather smiled on turkey hunters last week, many came trudging from the woods toting toms.

Few did better than Charles Dailey of Roanoke County, who invited a couple of his flounder fishing friends from Eastern Shore to hunt with him in Floyd County. During a one-hour hunt, Dailey killed a 21-pound, 1-ounce gobbler and his companions scored with 18 pound and 17 1/2-pound birds.

"Now I get some free fishing, I hope," said Dailey.

It took Marvin Catron of Catawba less than five minutes to call in an 18 1/2-pound gobbler after he heard it gobble twice just after daylight in Roanoke County.

Reggie Knighton of Salem confronted a flock of six hens and two gobblers during a Botetourt County hunt, where he killed a 19 3/4-pound tom. When he called, the gobbler broke off from the flock and came within shotgun range.

"The bigger one was lingering behind," he said.

by CNB