In a March 22 blog about turkey hunting, I mentioned that many of the turkeys used to re-stock Arkansas were trapped at Brandywine Island, just across the river from Memphis.

But they obviously didn’t trap them all.

In fact, they may need to go back and trap some more.

Check out these recent trail cam photos of Brandywine turkeys. They’re absolutely unbelievable.

Rod and Brenda Alexander and the folks who work at Brandywine practice supplemental feeding year-round. That means they keep feeders full of whole kernel corn and other stuff like soybeans.

Sometimes they get pictures of gigantic whitetail deer. Sometimes it’s raccoons and possums.

These two photos showed awesome groupings of eastern wild turkeys.

If I could choose one place in the Mid-South to hunt, Brandywine Island would be first on my list. President’s Island would be a close second. And Ames Plantation would be next.

I’ve been lucky enough to hunt turkeys a couple of times at Ames, but I never saw turkeys like these.

These are some great pics.

The University of Memphis football team finally was able to practice on its Murphy Athletic Complex fields Tuesday after last week’s rains had saturated the area forcing the Tigers to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

At the end of Tuesday’s workout, the Tigers scrimmaged for about 25 plays — all in the red zone. The defense made its presence felt for the first 16 snaps (Michael Grandberry had a pick in the end zone, freshman defensive back Jermaine Richardson added several big hits and Tony Bell and Steven Turner combined on a second-and-goal stop from the 1-yard line).

But the scrimmage ended with the offense executing as well. Junior college quarterback Arkelon Hall tossed a 15-yard touchdown pass to Carlos Singleton, converted linebacker Jeremy Longstreet ran 17 yards for another score and Hall ended the practice with a 15-yard TD run.

“A point of emphasis for us on offense (this year) is scoring touchdowns,” Tiger coach Tommy West said. “We didn’t start good (in the scrimmage), but we finished pretty good. We’re getting a little better at different things every day.”

If you didn’t catch Denny Brauer’s seminar at FedExForum last night, you really missed out.

I’m not a big fan of fishing seminars as a rule. Sometimes you sit down for a seminar and end up feeling like you’ve gotten stuck in a government filibuster.

But Denny’s not like that.

His seminars are short and sweet, and there are no wasted words.

One of my favorite things he said last night was this:

“If you drop a lure on a fish’s head, that fish has two choices - eat it or move out of the way. Bass usually think the lure is a crawdad, and no bass wants to be told by a crawdad to move. So he’s gonna eat it.”

That’s good, old, plain-spoken talk from a guy who’s just like you and me.

You know, except for the fame and the millions of dollars he has.