Up North Journal Podcast

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