With the way the Climate/Weather is, Has anyone found Sika Roaring later?
Is early May a good time now?
Thoughts
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With the way the Climate/Weather is, Has anyone found Sika Roaring later?
Is early May a good time now?
Thoughts
May has always been a good time.... bush is empty too as everyone is duck shooting... the good conditioned yearlings usually cycle through May and into June.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snag
It's triggered by light dark ratio.
So might fire up when daylight saving finishes next week.
I heard quite a few last Friday, Sunday so it's happening now.
Not sure if you're serious or joking about daylight savings changing the daylight hours?Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
Late April/May always used to be good for Sika roar in my experience.
The night must be longer when you get up an hour later if you do not know how to adjust your watch haha
Sika are roaring today on northern birch and ferny ridge in the eastern Kaweka front country
They are 10 days early this year in this spot, not to say they are this early elsewhere
Haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by RUMPY
But you might be surprised the number of people who agree.
Hi all, the research shows the April 19th as the peak of the first cycle, and 22/23 days later (11-12th May) would be the peak of the second cycle. May certainly is a good time to target stags. My experience is that they don't seem to be quite so vocal in the second round, however still come in especially when using the "mew". These dates are averages so around that time the probability is higher of roaring action. Hot barrels!
Sika stags in the kawekas today are about 400 yards from the hinds
Hinds cant be smelling nice yet but wont be far away from having stags following them around like a semi trailer :)
This is a good question that myself and others have been considering. For the last four or five years it has seemed very late. My early trip from 5th to 11 used to have a fair bit of roaring and some single calling. Not so in recent years.
It seemed to happen after that terrible summer drought. We wonder if hinds struggled to cycle due to lack of food as the next few years we've seen fawns everywhere drinking from the teat etc. In fact the year ofter the drought on the first night there were 16 hinds and fawns out in a clearing and all of the fawns were super young. That was not normal.
Sika still Hee Hawing on Ferny ridge this morning
If you want a Sika it’s time to get a wriggle on
Last year 2nd week of April we were at Manson hut hunting the surrounding areas, it was pretty slow going and the end of our week it starting picking up noise wise.
We are @ Otutu first week of May this year, obviously there are a few parties in April before us but i'm picking we will still be in the thick of it.