The Flush Podcast - Stories from the field

Jay Brekke from Brekke Veterinary joins the show to offer advice on how to help our bird dogs grind through a rigorous hunting season and prepare for cold weather hunts ahead.  Travis and Jay discuss the changing season ahead for bird hunters, hypothermia in dogs, tailgate checks, paw conditioning, mean seeds, dog food & supplements, and Jay’s new telehealth service for hunting dogs called Altitude Sport Dog Health.  We also share recent stories from the field to help you harvest more pheasants and quail in the coming weeks. www.brekkevet.com & www.altitudesportdoghealth.com

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Scott Fransen, his wife (Jean), and their three daughters (Grace, Maddy, Hannah), sit down to share stories from their unforgettable family hunt, where youngest daughter, Hannah, goes on her first wild pheasant hunt in western Minnesota.  The crew shares their favorite moments from the hunt, kicking Dad when he is down and out, the challenges of hunting wild pheasants, falling down, hen explosions at their feet and why this hunt is Scott’s favorite of all time. 

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Travis Frank and his wife (Sarah), mom (Phyliss), daughter (Lydia), and son (Weston), sit down to share stories from their unforgettable “Frank Family Pheasant Hunt” in North Dakota.  The crew shares their favorite moments from the hunt, celebrating first pheasants & partridge, outsmarting wild pheasants, overcoming obstacles as a family, planning and executing a family hunt, witnessing the fall migration, watching a bull moose pass by, embracing the experience, a new fishing lodge in North Dakota that’s perfect for hunters, and so much more…@fishindianhills

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While chukar hunting in Idaho, Trevor Henderson’s bird dog, Ellie, went on point and was then shot and killed by a coyote hunter.  Trevor relives the horrific story from that hunt, and describes the events that followed when officers arrived on the scene and told him there was no crime committed.  Trevor shares his mission to seek Justice for Ellie, explains what he’s learned about hunting laws in Idaho and around the country that pertain to bird dogs, what he’s doing to protect all dogs, why he started “The Ellie Project”, and what he wants bird hunters to know about the next time they step into the field.  www.theellieproject | FB: @The Ellie Project

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Ali Walton & Jon Tremblay join the show to help us get wild in the kitchen.  We laugh and share stories from special moments shared together, talk tools to help your wild game cooking, share recipes, share more stories, heckling friends and having fun, social media tips and viral videos, field reports from pheasant country, the big one that didn’t get away, Walton’s grows, from Nashville music to Kansas meat, and so much more. @waltonsinc

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Is this the year of the quail?  It might be! Ryan Sparks from Quail Forever joins the show to preview America’s upcoming quail hunting season.  Find out where quail numbers are up, where quail have rebounded from drought, where timely rains have dramatically raised quail numbers, stories from the covey rise, growing up in quail country, and all things quail from north to south, east to west.  Plus, we recap Minnesota’s pheasant opener, talk dry conditions, and so much more. @qualforever

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In a 100-year-old church-turned hunting camp we share stories from our bird hunt in Minnesota’s Northwoods. Brian Kelvington, Ted Anderson, Chris Christy join the show to talk about flushing big numbers of ruffed grouse and woodcock, hunting only the best cover, when to pull the plug on a spot and when to stay, finding perfect habitat, hunting camp traditions, wolf encounters with bird dogs, hunting gear updates, and so much more…

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After a week in Canada’s bush country, Ben Brettingen & George Lyall sit down with Travis Frank to share stories from their remote wilderness ruffed grouse hunting adventure based out of Sunset Channel Outpost on Lake of the Woods.  The trio share laughs, struggles, lessons learned, success stories, tips to find ruffed grouse in the upper Midwest, going remote, catching walleyes from shore, hunting waterfowl between grouse flushes, recipes from camp, reasons to plan a true adventure, and so much more… @benbrettingen @g.lyall66

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Jared Wiklund from Pheasants Forever joins the show to preview the 2024 pheasant hunting season.  We break down each state to discuss where upland bird hunters will flush more roosters this fall, areas that were hit hardest by spring rain, where the hatch exceeded expectations and where it fell short, pheasant facts, build a wildlife area week, rain & habitat updates, be bear aware, and so much more…  @pheasantsforever

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Jeb Williams is the Director of North Dakota Game & Fish.  Jeb & Travis preview North Dakota’s bird hunting season by discussing bird counts for pheasants, sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge & waterfowl.  The two also talk about the impact of non-resident hunting in ND, expanding public access, gaining permission on private ground, electronically posted lands, habitat, water levels, new areas to hunt, and so much more. @ndgameandfish

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