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Post by osprey on Mar 22, 2007 15:11:00 GMT -5
Always see lots of questions on what sika sign looks like, so I carried the camera today when I checked several spots. Here is a trail, although not a lot of fresh tracks on this one...  Here are two different wallows. Again, not real fresh by this time of year, even a few branches fallen in them, but they'll give you an idea...   couple of small rubs on bayberry...  And this one is interesting, they've hammered this bayberry bush. This is all good, live branches, but all the leaves have been stripped where it's low enough for them to reach. Don't know if it'll show well on here, but the tips are all broken off where a stag was working it over with his antlers, too...  |
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Post by wicomicojoe on Mar 22, 2007 21:55:30 GMT -5
Awsome pics, ahhh I can smell the marsh now. I heading to Taylors this weekend to take care of some chores, hopefully hear a few gobbles and get away from that working world stress!! ;D
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Post by osprey on Mar 24, 2007 15:10:32 GMT -5
What I didn't take or post a pic of was the grove of persimmon trees I found.  Definitely a spot I'm going to sit late September/early October. Probably 30-40 of them, only ones around, should draw them in like candy from miles around out of the marsh. |
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Mar 24, 2007 19:55:30 GMT -5
Great find. How do you know they are persimmon? Do they have fruit on them? That will be a fun spot to hunt this fall. Depending on how remote it is a trail cam might produce some good pics as well.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 25, 2007 1:07:09 GMT -5
Guess the persimmons must be a sika attractant. Thanks - I didn't know that. I'll be looking on google earth for the biggest patch of persimmons I can find! ;D
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Post by davep on Mar 25, 2007 6:00:47 GMT -5
This has NOTHING to do with siika deer,but I know where a persimmon hangs out near the water on the Choptank.Every year I get a new "victim" to try them.BEFORE they turn .Hee hee.
I'bve been known to take a bullet (eat one first) JUST to see the look on their face.Takes a fewseconds,but PRICELESS!
(I'm really that evil!)
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Post by osprey on Mar 25, 2007 12:15:41 GMT -5
I'm with ya, done it many times. What a PUCKER!! But after a good frost any that are left can be pretty sweet. How did I know they were persimmons? Dendrology boys, one of those college classes people say you'll never use!! Can identify most tress by the bark (at least the local names) and still give you most genus and species. If you ever run across a copy of "Woody Plants of Maryland" by Brown & Brown (the textbook we used and I still have) buy it, you'll reap the dividends when scouting and hunting! A big part of hunting for me has always been learning all the plants and other animals and how it all relates, probably much more of a naturalist than a hunter at heart. But the more you know the better you'll hunt! |
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Post by osprey on Mar 25, 2007 12:59:56 GMT -5
Guess the persimmons must be a sika attractant. Thanks - I didn't know that. I'll be looking on google earth for the biggest patch of persimmons I can find! ;D Whitetails like them too, should always keep an eye open for them, great soft mast to hunt over. Just not around long, September/October mainly. And if you can get GoogleEarth to go that detailed I NEED to find that version!!  |
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Definitely a spot I'm going to sit late September/early October. Probably 30-40 of them, only ones around, should draw them in like candy from miles around out of the marsh.
