The Lower Coastal plain's overall success rate is 8.7 percent, which sounds good -- but it also has the lowest harvest per square mile, coming in at only 0.39 birds. This region has a large amount of acreage composed of barrier islands that have virtually no turkeys. Ossabaw and Sapelo islands are hotspots for deer but have few if any turkeys. Fifteen hunters tried their luck at Sapelo Island WMA last year; none bagged a gobbler.

There are 18 WMAs in the Lower Coastal Plain. The 15,105-acre Tuckahoe WMA near Sylvania had a 17 percent success rate, with a total of 40 birds harvested last year. The highest success rate for this region was at Grand Bay WMA with 23 percent, but only three birds were harvested there. The Altamaha, Dixon Memorial and Clayhole WMAs also posted reasonable numbers for this region of the state.

Regardless of where you hunt in the state, it's statistically likely that you'll at least enjoy the hunt! Seventy percent of turkey hunters surveyed by the WRD last year rated the quality of turkey hunting in Georgia as "excellent" or "good." Only 12 percent gave Peach State turkey hunting a "poor" rating.