Up North Journal Podcast

Tonight the guys talk with Buck Baits about their 2020 product line up along with some breaking news coming out about the ATA approved deer urine scents and attractants.

The guys talk with Tim Sias of Limb Walker Game Calls about fall turkey hunting. The ins and outs of bagging that fall turkey for Thanksgiving.

Second half of the show we talk with Mike Swartzentruber of Hunter's Blend Coffee about what's new over at Hunter's Blend along with some things in the works for all of us outdoorsmen! He also talks about their new adventure with the Rut Calendar that you can subscribe to on their website. Mike also gives us a few tips at setting up mock scrapes along with licking branches and how he uses them.

This week the guys talk with Yamaha Pro Fisherman Brandon Palanuik.

1. Pre fishing Lake St. Clair
2. What he's looking for while pre fishing
3. His comeback win on Lake Champlain
4. Why he likes Yamaha motors so much
5. How Covid has affected the tournament scene
6. What to expect at this week's Bass Master's Elite Series at Lake St. Clair

Tonight the guys talk about how they are preparing for the upcoming deer season.

This week the guys talk with Michael Bleau who lives near Mike and Danny who found a really old elk skull in his lake!

1. How he found the elk skull
2. Only one loop around the antlers held it
3. Covered in muck
4. Everyone in the neighborhood went nuts
5. In about 30 to 40 feet of water
6. Fully intact except for lower jaw
7. Local archaeologist took a look at it
8. How did it get there
9. What did it score
10. Cranbrook Institute took it to preserve it and Carbon Date it
11. Elk went extinct in this area in the mid to late 1800's
12. What is the age of the lake and how did that contribute to preserving the lake

The Carbon Dating Process

1. The process of finding someone to carbon date the skull
2. Cranbrook Research Institute reached out to Michael
3. Had to preserve the skull first
4. Used a small piece of the skull to carbon date it
5. Can they use the teeth to give an age estimate of the animal?
6. 2 1/2 weeks to get carbon date results back
7. The preserving process
8. When will it be on display for the public to see?
9. What's still down there?

How old is it?

1. The Great Fire in Michigan and how that affected the forests
2. How that time frame correlates to the elk
3. No other bones found due to currents and water species feeding on it
4. 220 years old +/- 30 years
5. 1770-1830
6. An Eastern Elk species
7. Oliver Hazzard Perry's hunting adventures in this exact area in nearly the same time frame of the 1840's

Have you had any interest in selling the skull?

1. Several people interested in purchasing it
2. Might sell it or auction it at a later time
3. 7x6 skull
4. When you can see it

The guys talk with Carrie Zylka the Hostess of BowCast 2.0 the relaunch of the BowCast podcast!

1. We have to work out a technical gremlin
2. Original BowCast was the New School Archery podcast
3. Carrie's craving for bowhunting information
4. All she wanted was a t-shirt
5. The old BowCast's archery knowledge
6. Where we use to get our archery knowledge from
7. Why a podcast instead of a vidcast

How many people do you think the original Bowcast affected in the archery world?

1. Can't even put a number on it
2. Forums were phenomenal
3. How they got us to step out of our comfort zone
4. Taking long shots back in the day

How did Bowcast 2.0 come about

1. The original BowCast changed leadership a few times
2. She tried to buy it several times
3. She finally purchased it from Tim Endsley
4. Keeping the same format as before
5. Why 2.0
6. Been well received
7. Preserving what the original members have done with the show
8. Original show was Western Hunting heavy and compound bow heavy
9. Will have episodes for traditional shooters on the 2.0 BowCast

How women have to deal with the archery scene

How BowCast at the Bird became the Total Archery Challenge

1. BowCast at the Bird was the first extreme archery event
2. Originally they wanted a traveling circuit just like today
3. The sold the rights to what is now TAC
4. Bowfest shoot in Wisconsin
5. www.bowcast.net

Reusing some of the older episodes

Will Bowcast have the forums back again?

What's on the first four episodes?

What's coming up in the future?

The Mystical Flight of the Arrow

The Process

Looking forward to the Wisconsin deer hunting season

We talk with Brett King who is one of Yamaha's Pro Fisherman about the walleye tournament and walleye fishing.

How Covid has affected the tournament scene

1. Just getting started
2. 3 months behind

How Brett got interested in fishing and how he landed on the pro circuit

1. Just got interested in fishing as a kid
2. Lake Minnetonka
3. Fishing as a kid with friends on a trip to a resort
4. Fishing at his grandparents
5. Any ice fishing

How Brett got involved with Yamaha Motors

1. Joined in 2017
2. Working with engineers on a study for new products
3. Yamaha 300 Offshore
4. Reliability
5. Fuel economy

Winning the 2018 Angler of the Year award!

1. What does Angler of the Year mean for you
2. How he let one slip away
3. Consistency

Favorite method of fishing

Why Walleye and not some other fish

How the water is changing

What advice would you give to an up and comer

The Personal Side of Brett King

The guys talk with Dan and Nevin Burns of Nevin's Hunting Friends about how they got started helping special needs children get out to enjoy the outdoors.

How they got started

How the organization works

How you can help

Mike and Danny unwrap their new PSE gear for the 2020 season.

The guys talk with Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation Ellary TuckerWilliams about their new initiative of Responsible Recreation.

With the closure of public lands and waters with Covid going on, the CSF has lobbied the states and developed a new initiative to make sure we recreate responsibly so lands and waters stay open.

1. #ResponsibleRecreation hashtag
2. Cleaning up your trash before you leave
3. Sharing your outdoor photos
4. Plan ahead and avoid over crowding
5. Educating youngsters
6. Take the pledge
7. Catch of the Day

More people are using the outdoors during the virus time than ever before

1. More fishing licenses being sold
2. Fishing gear is in short supply
3. More people outside means more money coming in to conservation funding
4. Important to educate new users while outside

The Great American Outdoors Act

1. Funding for backlog of projects
2. Use for public lands and public agencies to promote access

The Recovering America's Wildlife Act

1. Funds are for state agencies
2. Help states to be more effective in the outdoors

www.congressionalsportsmen.org

Danny gives a recap on how things are looking at his hunting property since his visit this past week

We are talking with Derek Vaughn of SunRy's Archery, Mid Michigan's newest PSE Dealer about getting your bow ready for the upcoming hunting season.

1. Danny is dialing in from the Upper Peninsula
2. SunRy's is the newest PSE Archery Dealer in Mid Michigan
3. Boot section
4. Store selection for the high end archers as well
5. Things that are driving the high end market
6. Long distance shooting
7. Total Archery Challenge
8. Business is busy this time of year due to Covid backup
9. Time frame for getting your bow tuned for season
10. Talking strings
11. Time frame for setting up a new bow
12. Ready to shoot packages vs picking out your own accessories
13. Derek's bow wrenching background
14. The progression from bait store archery shops to pro shops
15. Customer service
16. Time for a tick check!
17. www.sunrysarchery.com
18. Derek talking shooting archery
19. Most common mistakes hunters make when checking their bows
20. SunRy's sponsored 3D shoot and Land O Lakes
21. Stretching out your shooting distance
22. Derek's first hunt
23. The personal side of Derek
24. Quarantine has improved his grilling skills