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Join us in the Cabin tonight as Danny gives his take on the weekend at the Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo in Escanaba Michigan. We talk about the vendors, the patrons, the venue and overall excitement of the show. We also talk a little about Mike's trip to the U.P. along with the upcoming firearm deer season.

Join us tonight in the Cabin as we get the final low down on the largest Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo in Michigan's Upper Peninsula! Find out what vendors are going to be there and what the show has to offer outdoorsmen and women.

Talking with the five people from the Daily Press that is putting on the show

1. Vendors attending
2. Returning vendors
3. What they have to offer patrons
4. Food vendors
5. Things for kids
6. Places to stay in the area

Talking with UNJ Member Mark Coleman tonight about the work put in this year for the upcoming deer season in Indiana. He gives us the good, the bad and the ugly on what he expects for the upcoming season at the farm.

Summer prep this year at the farm

Food plots

Licking branches, ropes, scrapes

The rut and small fawns

Predators

New blind locations

Trailcam Tuesday

Hunting season expectations

Hunting with his brothers

Join us tonight as we get the tables turned on us here at Up North Journal. Daily Press' Rachel Barnstrom interviews the Up North Journal crew to see what makes them tick. We also get to know why a Jersey girl came to Michigan's upper peninsula via London England.

Join us in the Cabin tonight as we talk with NW Michigan Fishing Club's Tim Hossack about what their club is all about and what they do. He also gives us insight into the gill net consent decree in Michigan and it's potential impacts on our fisheries.

What is the NW Michigan Fish Camp?

1. Membership
2. Fishing tournaments
3. Projects
4. Kids
5. Veteran fishing trips
6. Cookouts

Gill netting consent decree

1. Insight into the treaty and decree
2. What is the new consent decree
3. What are the potential issues with it
4. How will this affect Michigan fisheries
5. What should fisherman expect to deal with

Join us tonight as we talk with John Bauman a MI DNR Fisheries Biologist about how he helps the Michigan fisheries to thrive in a delicate habitat.  He also gives us his background that took him into the position he is in now with the Michigan DNR.

John's background and early life

How he became a fisheries biologist

What does he do as a biologist

How does the data he gathers play into the future of the Upper Peninsula's fisheries

What are the little things he notices that have an affect on how fish thrive

How delicate is the fisheries in Michigan

Join the guys tonight as they talk with Gregg Gerke of GT Rod and Reel about his tungsten jig heads and muskie lures. Gregg gives them the lowdown on using his tackle and how to use it.

Gregg's background in fishing

How the company started

How the beginning of the internet played into a successful business model

How he began making lures and jig heads

What does he offer now to anglers

Using ice fishing gear in the summer

Looking into the future

Tonight we are discussing some of the unique things game managers do in South Africa to maintain and promote healthy game and non game species for the future.

What hunters expect going to Africa

What they find when they get there

How does hunting success begin before the hunter arrives in South Africa

1. How game managers see the animals they manage
2. Where does it all start
3. Key points to management
4. Maintaining the herds
5. Starting a new herd
6. Bringing a new animal into the area
7. Conditioning a stomach
8. How did Covid affect the management process
9. Looking at the habitat side of mangement
10. Taking care of the land
11. Looking towards the next season

Tonight we take you out on the Big Water! We get to find out how you know when weather conditions are good to hit the open water in a kayak along with a trip on Saginaw Bay to do some walleye fishing.

Week of kayaking on big water in northwest Michigan

1. Apps for safety on the water
2. Windfinder App
3. Go Paddling App
4. Paddling Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes
5. Paddling Duck Lake
6. Paddling Lake Dubonett
7. Paddling Glen Lake, Little and Big Fischer Lakes
8. Paddling Crystal River
9. Paddling at sunset on Lake Michigan at Empire Bluffs
10. Visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes on the top side of the dunes

Danny takes a charter trip on Saginaw Bay for Walleyes

1. Rock N Reel 2.0
2. Rigging the lines
3. Weather conditons
4. The catches of the day

Quick report from the west side of the state and Adam Winn's fantastic catches from 4th of July week.

Join us in the Cabin tonight because it's time to get your fish on! We talk soft water lures with Patrick Huddleston from Hudd's Fishing Lures about what to use on the water along with how he got involved in making fishing lures that you can purchase.

How Pat got his start in making fishing lures

1. His childhood fishing experience with his dad
2. How his career in the military gave him the opportunity to fish in different places and how it also gave him time to learn to build his own lures
3. Perfecting his lure building
4. What he learned along the way

How Hudd's Lures came into being

1. His first lures
2. How he grew his assortment of lures
3. R&D
4. How he tests his lures
5. The things that sets his lures apart from the others

Types of lures he offers

Our four fun questions

Join the guys in the Cabin this week as they catch up with UNJ Fishing's Adam Winn. We hear about his turkey season and how his spring fishing has been going.

Adam's spring turkey season

1. Winter scouting
2. Spring scouting
3. Figuring out where the birds were at
4. Rainy first week
5. Calling in a lone bird

Spring fishing season chasing bass

1. Using the kayak
2. Using some plastics from Southern Indiana Bait Company
3. Showing off a $35 swim bait
4. Getting wet retrieving a hung up $35 bait

Lake Michigan salmon fishing

Looking into some summer fishing

Join the guys in the Cabin tonight as they talk with Danny/s fiance' Denise about going to Africa for the first time. While there she gets the itch to learn to shoot a rifle and then go after her first animal! She puts in 5 days of hunting to chase down an Impala.

Going through the procedure to obtain a passport

Putting boots on the ground in Africa for the first time

Watching Danny hunt and learning the ropes

Getting the itch to try hunting for herself

Learning how to shoot a rifle for the first time

Learning how to hunt and chasing impalas

Putting in five days of hunting

Finally making it come all together

The feelings going on when she sees the animal on the ground for the first time

Will she hunt again?

Overall experience

Join the guys in the Cabin as they check in with the owners of Blade's Bait and Tackle in Michigan's upper peninsula. This will be their first year of being open all year long. We will find out what they have to offer for the great outdoors for the summer season.

How did Blade and Lacy get their start in the outdoors

What led them to starting one of the upper peninsula's largest bait and tackle stores

What types of gear do they have

How did they decide to go to being open during the soft water season

What services will they offer this summer

What does the future hold for expansion

Looking forward to the U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo in November

Join the guys in the Cabin tonight as Danny gives us an inside look at his first time to Africa to hunt animals of a lifetime. Danny takes us through the list of game he was able to take along with what he thought about the overall experience.

Getting the gear together for the trip

The air flight to Africa

Getting to the outfitter's camp 

A look at the lodging facilities

They lay of the land for hunting and getting prepped for the first day of hunting

First day hunt and two animals down

A hunt that didn't go as expected and a lesson learned

The redemption hunt

The end of a Kudu hunt

Talking about what gets done with the animals after they are taken

The food from the field

Takeaways from the hunt and lessons learned

Join the guys tonight as they talk with Dave Wilkins and his daughter Morgan about Danny fulfilling his bucket list dream hunt! Yes Danny is going to Africa after years of dreaming about it. Listen in to see what Danny had to go through to get ready for his trip and how he is feeling just a week away from flying out!

How this hunt all came about

Danny's dream hunt

What he had to do to get ready

What is he going to hunt

What is Danny expecting

Spring food plots are getting ready to be planted soon. We check in with Lincoln Rohn of PackerMaxx to talk about what's new with his company along with what you can do to help your local deer herd this season.

Up North Journal Anniversary and a special dedication for this show for a close friend of Lincoln Rohn's

What is new for Best Outdoors and PackerMaxx

1. Five 2 Outdoors and how it plays into Best Outdoors
2. How this special acquisition came about
3. How the show season went for PackerMaxx

Talking about something to try for a food plot this season

1. Using screens
2. Making an island out of screens
3. Making a soft edge on a food plot

Perspective as an older outdoorsman and how we don't let things bother us anymore. 

Tonight we are getting Jiggy with it with Katelyn Beaver of Beavers Lures about the fishing jigs she makes. We are also Talking with Morgan Eagleowski of Visit Escanaba and her involvement in the U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo.

How does a 20 year old female start her own fishing lure company

What is Beavers Lures

How is Morgan involved with Visit Escanaba

How did she get her start as an Event Coordinator for the area

What does the U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo consist of this year

What types of lures does Beavers Lures offer

How to pick a lure

Colors and styles of lures

What other events and accommodations does Escanaba offer

How does working with local business' help the community and local business'

Working with fishing charter captains around Michigan

Beavers Lures coming to Meijer stores this year

Getting to know Katelyn and Morgan with our four questions.....

Tonight we are talking with The Airborne Angler of Michigan. We are discussing how he uses his aircraft to help fellow outdoorsmen, especially during the Michigan ice fishing season!

Who is the Airborne Angler

How does he use his aircraft to help save lives on Saginaw Bay during Michigan's ice fishing season

How are his photos used

How did he get his start

Who was the first Airborne Angler

What other uses are there for his photos for Michigan's outdoorsmen 

What is Camp Fish Tails

What is his biggest walleye taken to date

Our four questions for new visitors to the UNJ Cabin

Tonight we are bringing in our first guest from Canada! We are talking with Ontario's own Happy Camper Kevin Callan! We will get the inside info on what drives him to take long distance canoe trips all over Canada!

We met Kevin next to a bunch of rabbits in East Lansing

A story from Kevin's car ride with a rabbit judge!

How bends are there in a river

How he got started in canoeing

Portage in English or Portage' in French, what is the correct pronunciation 

Geography differences of a canoe

Kevin's three sisters and how he managed to survive their antics

His relationship with his father

Skipping Boy Scouts and going fishing

Keynote speaker for the Boy Scouts

His band Santa's Syphilis 

How the outdoors helped him

Recharging ones self in the outdoors

Goal driven in the outdoors of thriving in wilderness situations

Why is picking the correct campsite on the water so important?

The first car a green Montego

Is taking an ax with you like taking a banana on a boat?

Solo trips vs trips with a few good friends

Asked twice to be on the TV show Alone

How to make great camp coffee

What was the worst storm encountered on the water and how red ants saved his life

How did he get the name The Happy Camper and the Whiz Easy turns into a whistle

His trip to Scotland and what he found out when he met his family 

Picking out a canoe and a paddle

Canoe and paddling museum

His involvement with conservation and getting others involved in the outdoors

Our four questions where we get to know more about Kevin

Spring planting isn't far off, so we need to check in with Robie Pruitt of Antler King about what we can do to kick off our food plot success this year!

Soil Test for proper ph

Frost seeding

Over seeding

Partnership with Up North Journal

Seed products to plant

Minerals and how to use

Attractants and how to use

Show season and a few questions about some things that show season leaves with us.

Tonight we are talking with the creators of the Biggest Outdoor Expo in Michigan's Upper Peninsula! We will get the inside scoop on what year two of the U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo will bring to Michigan's Upper Peninsula!

How did the hunting show idea come to be?

How the show came into being within just 6 months?

The town of Escanaba and the attendees loved it!

4500 Attendees

The anticipation of year two

Who are the vendors that are committed to coming?

What to expect for year two

Getting to know the creators and promoters of the event

Tonight we are talking with the creators of the Biggest Outdoor Expo in Michigan's Upper Peninsula! We will get the inside scoop on what year two of the U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo will bring to Michigan's Upper Peninsula!

How did the hunting show idea come to be?

How the show came into being within just 6 months?

The town of Escanaba and the attendees loved it!

4500 Attendees

The anticipation of year two

Who are the vendors that are committed to coming?

What to expect for year two

Getting to know the creators and promoters of the event

The guys are talking with Swamp Buck Camo tonight to see just what makes Swamp Buck Camo tick. President Jason Hepfler gives us a behind the scenes look into how they got their start and what you can expect from their camo gear! By the way, it's not just for hunting! Check out their fishing apparel as well!

Jason's background into the hunting scene

1. Starting as a kid
2. Who taught him about the outdoors
3. What hunting was like as a youth in Wisconsin
4. Family traditions
5. How hunting led to thinking about camo

What was the thing that triggered the start of Swamp Buck Camo?

1. How it all started
2. Where did he get help from
3. What were some of the things to overcome

The camo offerings now

What makes Swamp Buck Camo stand out from the rest

What are some of the features of their camo apparel 

The flannel shirt line of gear.

1. How did the flannel line start
2. What did Jay Gregory have to do with it?
3. What colors are available

How did the fishing side of the line come into play?

What does Swamp Buck Camo offer in the fishing line now

Our four questions that give a little insight into who Jason Hepfler is

Talking with Up North Journal Fishing's Adam Winn about what will possibly be the last ice fishing outing of the season. He was recently in Michigan's Upper Peninsula near Little Bay De Noc chasing walleyes.

How the late season ice was on Lake Michigan

How was the bite

Adam's personal best fish

Deciding to move to chase the big fish

What caused the decision to move

What they found when they moved

Exploring the Ford River

Stopping at Rapid River Knifeworks

Mike looking at a new sportsmen's club

Why Mike is deciding to move to a new club

Talking with Up North Journal Fishing's Adam Winn about what will possibly be the last ice fishing outing of the season. He was recently in Michigan's Upper Peninsula near Little Bay De Noc chasing walleyes.

How the late season ice was on Lake Michigan

How was the bite

Adam's personal best fish

Deciding to move to chase the big fish

What caused the decision to move

What they found when they moved

Exploring the Ford River

Stopping at Rapid River Knifeworks

Mike looking at a new sportsmen's club

Why Mike is deciding to move to a new club

Tonight we are chatting again with the people from Raised At Full Draw. They are a group that teaches youngsters everything they need to know from a to z about hunting and the outdoors.

Donise Petersen's outdoor passion of bow hunting turned into Raised at Full Draw

What is RAFD

What do they teach kids

What does it take to get a youth into RAFD

Where are the camps

What does it cost

What can you do to help

What does RAFD need 

What does the future hold for RAFD

Women's camp being held in Wisconsin

The story of the two bucks on the wall

Tonight we are talking with Adam Kaiser to get the low down on Lowdown the high speed viewer for trail camera photos and videos.

What is a Lowdown high speed photo viewer?

How did the concept develop into the current viewer?

What was the first generation viewer like?

The several features with the Lowdown viewer

Adding features

Where can you purchase one at?

How was the Wisconsin hunting season?

What is the warranty?

Battery life?

Other uses for the viewer besides trail camera applications

How was the ATA show for Lowdown?

Public land hunters

Trail camera issues on public land

Cool things caught on trail camera

Lowdown's show schedule

Getting to know Adam Kaiser on the personal side

Tonight we are talking with two fishermen from the collegiate bass fishing series. We have two rival colleges represented tonight from right here in Michigan. It is Central Michigan University vs Western Michigan University in the UNJ Cabin!

How each of the guys got onto their respective college teams.

1. The competitive edge
2. Family influence
3. Outdoor Channel influence

Fishing takes up time everyday

1. Tournament
2. Fundraising
3. School
4. Work

Thoughts on the Ohio Tournament weight stuffing scandal

Tournament schedule

1. Pre fishing
2. Team set ups

How the fundraising is going at this point in the year?

1. Money
2. Sponsors

Advocates for the outdoors

1. Recruiting new team members
2. Working with youngsters

How does the money get used and how big is the team

Favorite bait to use while catching bass

Family support is critical, how does your family play into your fishing?

What are the career aspirations for both fisherman?

Scariest moment on the water while fishing a tournament

Favorite equipment to use and why

Ever been stopped by the DNR while fishing a tournament

Fishing the indoor pond during the fishing show

Catching a tagged fish

Does weather ever get bad enough to call off a tournament?

Fishing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

What is your bucket list lake to fish

Our final four questions to get to know the guys

Angler of the year award

Best fish ever caught

Join us tonight as we chat with Lance Valentine of Talkin' Fishin'. He is one of Michigan's premier walleye fishermen and is going to talk about some of his best advice for getting started in walleye fishing. He also gives us a sneak peak of his new walleye jig head he helped develop. 

Back into show season

1. Booth was slammed
2. Sold a lot of product

How the idea of Coffee Time with Lance started during Covid.

1. Turned into Teachin Fishin 
2. Bi-weekly show
3. Evolved with a whole new group of people interested in fishing

Lance's beginning of fishing

1. Cut his teeth on the AuSauble River
2. Wanted to make his living fishing
3. Fishing the Bay for walleye
4. Life took over
5. 1996 went tournament fishing
6. Started full-time fishing
7. Teaching seminars
8. Now a charter captain

What is the best advice for a first timer fishing for walleye

1. Don't worry too much about the fishing
2. Learn where to fish and about the species you're fishing for
3. Educate yourself

Fishing location and dates

1. Detroit River
2. Lake Erie
3. Saginaw Bay
4. Mullets Lake and others

Talking Sturgeon in the Detroit River

How good is the Detroit River for walleye

New Regulations and how they affect the charter captains

Listen to your charter captain

When to hire a guide

Minimalist fishing

Evolution of an angler

Never let a rod go unused

Biggest walleye and tagged fish

Amount of daylight and moon phase

Charter Captain life vs family life 

The new jig head that Lance Developed for river fishing

1. Never buy or use a round head jig
2. His first developed jig head
3. Worked with 2K jigs
4. 2nd version

Superstitions and bananas

Are we as conservationists where we need to be or is there more work to be done?

Join the guys tonight as Adam Winn of Up North Journal Fishing joins the show to recap his four days on Little Bay De Noc in Michigan's Upper Peninsula chasing walleyes through the ice!

Getting up north

1. Crossing the bridge
2. Setting up camp
3. Getting the sleds ready to roll

Getting on the ice

1. The weather
2. Ice conditions
3. The other fishermen
4. Shanty set up

The catch

1. All the fish caught had empty stomachs
2. Weather affecting the fish

The rods used and set up

Talking about Maggs Custom Rods

Line set up for the ice

The uni to uni knot

Lures used that worked on this trip

Finding out what worked best

Water depths

Floating suits and other clothing

Sharing information to locate fish

Which action was working the best?

1. Tip Ups
2. Dead Stick
3. Jigging

Cooking, cleaning and eating fish

The haul vehicle and trailer

Shanty rules and regs

Shanty talk

DNR checking

Soft ice and a rig through the ice

Tagged fish

What do you do in the shanty when you are bored

What happens after fishing

1. Cooking fish
2. What else was to eat
3. What do you do for a bathroom after eating spicy chili?

Blades Bait and Tackle Gladstone Michigan

https://info@bladesbait.com

Shanty rentals and sleeper shanties

The ice fishing season so far for Adam

Snacks on the ice and a Swedish Fish in the ice hole

Losing a propane heater on the trip across the ice

Adam needs to learn how to play Euchre

Join the guys tonight as they give their opinion of the 2023 Archery Trade Association Show in their wrap up episode. We are talking with Mark Coleman who made the trip for the first time. Danny gives us the low down on the show and the new PSE bows unveiled.

ATA 2023

Mark Coleman's first trip to the show

1. His take on the show
2. What he found interesting
3. What he didn't expect
4. Overall consensus of the show and the celebrities there
5. Badlands Film Festival

Danny talks about the PSE Archery unveiling of 3 new hunting bows

1. The Unite signature bow from John Dudley
2. The Fortis 
3. The Omen reimagined
4. His take on the Badlands Film Festival
5. Overall impression of the show

Join the guys tonight in the Cabin as they talk with local ice fisherman Adam Winn about ice fishing safety and the gear you need to be taking with you out on the ice to stay safe. Adam also covers the gear he uses to take fish through the ice. 

Ice thickness

1. What is too thin
2. What is thick enough for getting out

Basic ice fishing safety gear

1. Ice fishing floatation suit
2. Heater
3. Propane
4. Extra clothes
5. Ice spikes
6. Cooking food
7. Snowmobile or Quad

Playing the weather reports for wind conditions on the big water

Using a GPS on the ice

Ice Fishing Equipment

1. Fish finder
2. Float Suit
3. Ice Rods
4. Lures
5. Fishing line
6. Ice Hut

Run in with Conservation Officers

Crazy stories from the ice

Cutting ice holes

Phone leash

Adam's deer season

Join the guys in the Cabin as they talk with firearm lawyer Jim Makowski & The Island Armory'. They talk about Michigan Bill 6544 that is being pushed in Michigan that would ban "Assault" weapons, and about pistol braces & firearm trusts.

Michigan Bill 6544

1. What is in the bill
2. What that would mean for gun owners
3. How would this change gun ownership in Michigan
4. What would you have to do
5. Is this bill likely to pass

Pistol Braces

1. New rules concerning pistol braces
2. How is this going to change pistols with braces
3. what does this mean for gun owners

Firearm Trusts

1. What is a trust
2. Why would you need one
3. What are the pluses and minuses

Join the guys in the Cabin tonight as they discuss what type of boots they wear in the field and why? They also run over a few of the latest deer totals in the state of Michigan as well as talking about a coyote attack in Florida.

Discussing the latest Michigan deer harvest numbers as of today.

What do you put on your feet when afield?

1. Rubber vs lace ups
2. Situations
3. Socks
4. On the ice
5. Boot tread

Talking about the recent coyote attack on a 2 year old in Florida along with a raccoon attack.

Join the boys this week as they cover Danny's upper peninsula deer hunt in Michigan along with talking about the new madatory deer check and how the numbers are stacking up.

Danny's deer hunt

1. Weather in the U.P.
2. Bow hunting before the rifle opener
3. The rifle season opener
4. New trail cams
5. Ravens cleaning up gut piles

Michigan deer harvest numbers with the new mandatory deer check

1. Numbers leading into the opening day of rifle season
2. Numbers after the first day of rifle season
3. Numbers after the first week of rifle season
4. How the numbers lead to some useful data already

Mike teaches his grandson how to use a knife properly while packaging deer for the freezer

In honor of Veterans Day coming up we are talking with Carrie Zylka of Hunt Fish Travel Podcast along with Joe Wesner of Ultimate Veteran Adventures that is taking out some of our lady veterans out for a duck hunt next weekend on Saginaw Bay in Michigan.

Joe's story about his service and recovery that led to Ultimate Veteran Adventures

1. Was out of the service on a medical discharge
2. Used the outdoors to help recover
3. His experience led to forming UVA

Talking about what makes up a good veterans organization

Has formed a support group with veterans that he has taken into the outdoors

How he met Carrie Z

1. Veteran fishing trip in New York
2. Carrie's experince
3. How it helped her relate to her service
4. Don't use a turkey choke to hunt ducks 

The hunt on Saginaw Bay

1. 2 1/2 day hunt
2. Targeting old squaw ducks
3. 4 lady veterans
4. One coming from Colorado

Info about Ultimate Veteran Adventures

1. All volunteer
2. All money goes for veteran adventures
3. How to get in touch with the organization
4. Looking for opportunities for veterans
5. Need money to pay for trips
6. Qualifications for veterans for trips
7. Getting veteran's families involved
8. Gold Star families
9. Future trips
10. How does other states work with veterans
11. Omelette in a bag

Join the guys in the Cabin tonight as they talk about how the season is going so far and what they are expecting for the firearm season in Indiana and Michigan.

Checking in from Indiana

1. Landowner permits 
2. Doe tag filled
3. Registering the deer via call in

Talking deer numbers

Indiana buck action

Fake licking branch

Mike's setup last week in Michigan

Passing time in the stand during an all day sit.

The Morph Pro Tree Stand gear hanging system

https://www.outrighthunt.com

What does a campfire at deer camp mean to you?

Join us in the Cabin this week as we talk about a possible new precedent setting indictment of tournament anglers along with 460 lbs. of illegal salmon taken. We also cover the Michigan DNR's new deer population video recently released.

Cheating tournament fisherman indicted on felony charges. 

Does this set a new precedent for cheaters

1. Could this spill over into other areas where cheating is proven
2. Could this happen in professional sports
3. The law of unintended consequences 

460 pounds of Salmon taken illegally in Michigan

1. Manistee River at Tippy Dam
2. Colorado anglers caught with 460lbs of illegal salmon
3. No fishing licenses
4. Using illegal fishing practices
5. Found with 40-50 fileted fish in vehicle

What is the safe buffer area from another hunter on public land?

Do archery hunters shoot a higher percentage of does to bucks than firearm hunters?

Michigan DNR releases new video on herd management and population control numbers. 

1. How many deer taken is too many
2. What does it take to maintain current population
3. Is a 40% harvest rate too high
4. Expected hunting trends in the near future

New hunting license app

Talking about an epic journey this week with outdoor enthusiast Haley Andrus. We will find out what made her walk around the entire shoreline of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in just under 3 months! What drives a person to do such monumental challenges? We will find out!

Why?

1. Always wanted to do an extended hike
2. Thought of the idea while on the beach on Lake Michigan

Grew up in the outdoors and got the outdoor bug in Jackson Hole Wyoming

Training for hike

1. Did extended backpacking in the winter before hike
2. Started walking for distance before hike
3. Planning the trip

The mindset while walking

1. meditations
2. Music
3. Podcasts
4. etc.....

Logistical Planning

1. Exact route
2. Camping stops
3. Distance for each day

The big send off

1. Starting at the Ohio line
2. Nervous
3. The first day

Walking through Detroit

Walking on the beaches for the first time

Reactions from people she ran into along the way

Saginaw Bay area hike

Raccoon encounter

Making it to Mackinaw and seeing the Bridge

1. Half way
2. Emotional

Going back to places you hiked through

Physical changes along the way

1. How food played a role as the trip progressed
2. Losing weight

Shoes wearing out along the trip

Making food along the way and eating in restaurants 

Hiking the west side of the state

Ludington hiking

The west side erosion and devastation was evident along Lake Michigan, how seeing that impacted her

The final stretch and last 10 days

The finish line!

What is next

Cost of the trip

Talking about the gear 

Carrying water on the hike

Possible book?

The big takeaway from the adventure

Wondering how to save time and money on your taxidermy mounts? Tonight we are talking with Troublesome Creek Taxidermy's owner Scott Tabor on how you can do just that! He will explain a unique way that you can get your mounts back quicker as well as saving some money.

Taxidermist Scott Tabor from Troublesome Creek Taxidermy

1. Where did you get your love for taxidermy
2. Father dabbled in taxidermy
3. Went to taxidermy school while in Marine Corps
4. Fell in love with waterfowling
5. Specializes in waterfowl

How does shipping a bird to Scott work

1. He can ship back or deliver if you have a group of birds or guys with birds to be shipped
2. Can turn birds around within a year or shorter
3. Freezing birds and waiting for the right time to ship

Asking the right questions to make sure you have the mount you want.

Shipping costs and process

The big reveal on what he shipped to us for the studio

How it is boxed 

Freezing your birds

The process of taking care of the bird after the shot and before you ship it

Process to ship to Scott

The Up North Journal Discount code

When to ship your birds

Can you refreeze a bird

Dealing with turkeys and pheasants

Chatting about the Ohio Walleye Tournament scandal.

Join the guys tonight as they talk with Dean Smith a Michigan Hunter about the 3 Do It Yourself hunts he took recently in Alaska for Caribou and Blacktail deer. He gives a few things to lookout for and suggestions on how you too can take a trip of a lifetime!

Planning the trip 2018 Caribou Hunt

1. Getting a group together
2. Time frame
3. Choosing an air transporting service
4. Getting your license to hunt
5. Getting gear out to hunting location
6. Clothes and food
7. Dealing with medical emergencies
8. Water supply
9. Making fire
10. Taking photos
11. The hunt
12. Long distance shooting

The 2020 Blacktail Hunt

1. Why Kodiak Island
2. Grizzlies
3. What was different than the 2018 hunt
4. A more physically demanding hunt than 2018
5. Conditioning before the hunt
6. Packing meat home

The 2022 Caribou Hunt

1. Flying in land vs water landings
2. Price ranges for the hunts
3. Time of the year
4. Weather conditions
5. What did you do differently this time back for caribou
6. Archeology site

Talking with Kip Adams of the National Deer Association about the good of mandatory deer checks and how this is going to change management here in Michigan.

20 years with Deer Management

1. He has been involved with QDMA and NDA for 20 years
2. Announcement from NDA today
3. Field to Fork
4. The 3 R's
5. 20-30 year age group is now the focus
6. The Back 40 with Mark Kenyon
7. www.nationaldeerassociation.com

Michigan's Mandatory Deer Checks

1. Pennsylvania has had theirs in effect for many years
2. How it use to be done
3. How the data is going to help
4. Pennsylvania data comes out a few months after season is over
5. Michigan is now the gold standard
6. Real time data available to the hunters
7. This will help to make better management decisions
8. Is dropping a pin point for kill site location a concern for hunters?
9. Location is key for management
10. How is the Amish community counted for deer kills?
11. What is the future information that we might get from this program?
12. Reporting is quick and easy
13. Could this be used to report diseased deer?

Other educational opportunities through NDA

Talking tonight with Randy Stoppenhaggen of C3 Mitts about the Idaho elk season which has already started. We will be covering a little bit about new info on elk breeding that Randy just learned about and talking about his recent elk hunt.

Talking C3 Mitts

1. Huge sale right now
2. Multi Mitt
3. Bow Mitt
4. Crossbow Mitt
5. Rifle Mitt
6. Shotgun Mitt

Idaho Elk Hunting

1. Wildfires and the affect it has on elk and other animals
2. Bear encounter
3. Animal activity in smoky situation
4. Hunting set up in early season
5. Up close elk encounter

Elk Breeding

1. Rock Jacobson elk seminar
2. August breeding 
3. Breeding season will dictate the success of survival rate
4. Breeding cow calls
5. Moon timing
6. Bull calling
7. Estrus cycle 2nd and 3rd time
8. Bull stress of continuous breeding on multiple cycles
9. How hieroglyphs played into what we know about the early estrus cycle
10. 13 days past full moon

Less than a month to the opener of archery deer season, so it's time to get those arrows ready for the treestand! Tonight we are talking arrow builds for the upcoming hunting season. We are talking with Derek Vaughn of Sunrise Archery on what we need to do to get ready for the opener!

Pro Shop's busy time of the year

1. Strings
2. Equipment
3. Arrows

Fletchings

1. Four Fletchings
2. Helicals
3. Five and Six Fletchings
4. Slip over fletchings

Nocks

1. Lighted nocks
2. String serving and D loop fitting the nock

Arrow selection

1. Diameter
2. Grains per inch
3. Target vs hunting
4. Heavy weighted inserts
5. Adding weight
6. Heavy weighted arrows vs a lighter arrow set up

Arrow Scales

Mechanical vs Fixed heads

Broadhead weight

Hunting Indiana and Michigan 

Join us in the Cabin as we talk with Chad Stewart a deer biologist for Michigan's DNR about their new mandatory deer harvest reporting rule implemented this season.

Chad Stewart's Outdoor background

1. Pennsylvania background
2. Indiana deer biologist
3. West Virginia
4. Degrees at Penn State and Illinois

Talking about deer hunting heritages in Pennsylvania and Michigan

Michigan's new deer harvest reporting rule

1. Overview of what you need to do when reporting a successful kill
2. What does the confirmation number do for us and what do we do with it
3. What questions do they ask on the report
4. Will you still have check stations to stop at and check your deer in
5. How the confirmation number works
6. Why do I have to list my kill location 
7. How does the location work
8. Why should I give them my location
9. What information are we as hunters going to get out of this
10. Reporting multiple deer kills
11. When will the data be available to help make decisions

Talking APR's

Real time data will be available to the DNR and the public

Hunter retention and recruitment

Join us this week in the Cabin as we talk with a father and son team that took on a hiking trip the entire length of Isle Royale National Park! Learn about what it takes and what you need to take with you for such a trip!

Why Isle Royale?

1. Went once before with a friend
2. Wanted his son to experience it

Training for the trip

1. Hiking
2. Using weight in a back pack

Some of the gear used

1. Flashlights
2. Backup Batteries for phones
3. Compass
4. In Reach device
5. Leaving in case of an emergency
6. Boots and walking sticks
7. First aid pack

Items that are must haves

Item you took that you didn't think you'd need but were glad you had

Size of the island

Animals on the island and those that are not on the island

Fishing the island

Shelter permit

Prepare for any weather and the bugs

Water and food

How much water do you need a day

Edible wild food

Making fire

Taking care of business

Shelters

The survey marker

Night sky description

Bug problems and solutions

Planning next trip

Fire towers

Journaling the trip

Join us in the Cabin This week as we find out when is it time to call in the dogs to track and find your deer. Rob Miller of Miller's Deer Tracking tells us when it's time to find a deer tracker and what all is involved in deer tracking dogs.

How did Rob get involved in deer tracking

1. Shot a deer and couldn't find it, tried to find a deer tracker
2. Not many around
3. Decided to Get a dog and learned how to track
4. The process of teaching tracking

Distinguishing one scent from another

What happens with scent when a deer is shot

The training regime for a scent dog

How do I know if I need a tracking dog or not

Knowing your dog

Does human scent affect the dog's nose

How does a rifle differ from a bow in tracking a deer

Does the breed of dog affect the tracking ability

Longest tracks

Danny's experience with dogs on a deer track

Most memorable deer track

State laws and regulations for trackers and dogs

The dog's reward for finding a deer

Best time to track and how weather affects the track

Injured buck chasing dog

Rules concerning dispatching injured deer

Getting into the archery groove tonight by talking with Rob Komyathy of Outtech about the PSE Omen's return to the scene. What is new with the Omen and see the other flagship hunting bows of PSE Archery.

Getting to know Rob and Outtech

1. Worked in the outdoors all his life
2. Loves to fish
3. Outtech 40 years in sales and marketing
4. PSE is now with Outtech

Omen revamped

1. Now has the EC and SE cam systems
2. Still super fast
3. Not as aggressive
4. Incredibly stable
5. Dynamic brace height
6. Comparing the old and the new Omen
7. Comparing the high let off and the low let off mods
8. FDS Technology

Talking about the PSE EVO XF

1. Specs
2. High vs low let offs
3. What do you give up using a high let off

Supply chain affects on shipments

Carbon bow building

Running down the revamped Brute ATK and the Stinger ATK

Getting to know Rob with the UNJ Four Questions

Talking plastic lures tonight with Southern Indiana Bait Company's Zion Dunaway. They have been hitting it hard on the fishing circuit along with getting new baits out for fishermen.

What has Zion been up to this past few months

High School National Fishing Championship

1. Skill level
2. How many teams
3. Money to be had

Getting ready for college

1. Purdue University for forestry and r\urban forestry
2. What is urban forestry

Working with a land management and habitat management company.

What does Southern Indiana Bait Company have to offer

1. southernindianabaitco.com
2. Plastic offering of baits
3. Custom colors and offered colors
4. Paddle tails are hot now
5. Color patterns for late summer
6. What triggers the fish to bite
7. Fishing current flows
8. Current flows with dams and power generators on the rivers

How they got started making baits

How did Zion get started into wildlife and timber management

What does the future hold for Zion

Where do you see yourself in 5 years

Albert Land Management

Timber management looked at in a bad light by those uneducated

Join the guys in the Cabin as they talk with PackerMaxx's own Lincoln Rohn about what we do with our food plots when we have no rain and high temps part 2! The also discuss Michigan's new deer hunting regulations. 

PackerMaxx on the show circuit

Weather conditions

1. Wet spring
2. Dry summer
3. Huge rain this week
4. Is this a set up for EHD?

What do we do now

1. Weed control immediately!
2. Can you shorten the time between spraying and planting
3. Costs are up
4. Dial in your program details to save money
5. Using the PackerMaxx to increase germination

PackerMaxx models

1. Different uses
2. Options

Crimper

1. When to seed before crimping
2. When to seed after crimping

Customer service and warranty

New business model to help with product control and costs

What is keeping PackerMaxx going strong with the current economy

Why knowing the exact size of your food plot is important

PackerMaxx Seed Blends

Quick trail cam talk

Talking abut the new Madatory Deer Check and new Michigan Deer Regulations