Up North Journal Podcast

Mike and Dan talk with Lance Valentine of Walleye 101 fishing school.

1. Finishing up the fishing show circuit
2. Show attendance was down due to weather and March Madness tournament
3. 1st week of April on the Detroit River
4. After Mother's Day it's the Saginaw Bay and Saginaw River pre and post spawn
5. Vertical jigging for walleye
6. Jig head colors and body color
7. Fish where the fish are
8. No live bait, tip with plastics
9. How to set up baits
10. Fall rates and angels are also important
11. Talking lines
12. Dealing with current
13. [email protected]
14. How important is rod size and reel type
15. Denali rods Myriad Series for walleye
16. Fishing for Detroit River Walleye
17. Accounting Major and Minor in Marketing and how that relates to being a teacher of fishing and a fishing guide
18. Fishing education weekend
19. Women involvement in fishing
20. http://www.walleye101.com/fishing_101

Mike made a trip to deer camp to learn about habitat and found something that wasn't good.

1. Met with a few deer managers and habitat managers to look over our hunting property
2. Trying to educate myself as much as I possibly can
3. Found a deer that starved to death more than likely
4. We did a health check on the deer carcass
5. Found that the little buck was eating white pine needles and sweet fern stems
6. No nutritional value to the deer
7. This tells us we need to make changes
8. Too many deer and not enough food
9. Over browsing can destroy regeneration of new trees after logging

Cablea's Turkey Classic this weekend with Mike and Danny.

1. Two days at the Chesterfield Cabela's
2. Worked with both new hunters and experienced hunters
3. Birds are already moving
4. The questions we were asked at our seminars
5. Shot size, Calls, decoys
6. Seminars, Fan mounts, kids calling contest, and turkey 101

Hearing protection form firearms

1. The guys looked at electronic hearing protection while at Cabela's
2. Walker Game Ears
3. Pro Ears
4. How they work
5. Hearing loss
6. Multiple uses
7. Williams Gunsight Company

We put a slate call to the test by putting water to it!

1. Limb Walker Game Calls
2. Acrylic Strikers that allow you to play a slate call that has a wet surface
3. End is unfinished so you can shape it to your liking

What firearm to use for coyote hunting

1. Daytime or nighttime
2. Rimfire and shotgun
3. Centerfire and Michigan rules and regulations
4. Long distance shooting

Making sure you conduct yourself and business in the right manor in the outdoor industry and while participating in the outdoors.

Mike and Dan talk with Tim Andrus of The Rush Outdoors

1. Traveling through Canada as he heads home from Michigan
2. 2018 Season, his 7th season for Rush Outdoors
3. Antelope hunt in Wyoming and a little fishing
4. New York buck hunt with a bow
5. Self Fliming your hunts
6. Rush Outdoors Uncut
7. How he got started in the outdoor industry
8. Wyoming Buck muzzleloader hunt
9. Saskatchewan Buck muzzleloader hunt
10. Fishing the east end of Lake Erie for walleye
11. Looking at retirement
12. How Tim got started in hunting
13. How he got into the hunting industry
14. How the internet has changed the viewing and consuming of hunting material
15. Four quick questions for Tim

Mike and Dan give their take on the Outdoorama show this weekend.

Mike is reading Darker Than Night a true Michigan murder mystery of two hunters that went missing and took 18 years to solve.

Mike and Dan talk with Bill Epeards from the PSE Elite Pro Staff and Mossy Oak Pro Staff.

1. Shot the African Big 5
2. With PSE for 44 years and Mossy Oak 28 years
3. Hunted with Curt Gowdy
4. Former sheriff
5. Doing the right thing
6. The Evolve Cam System
7. The Carbon Stealth
8. Respect for the animals
9. Most memorable African hunt was the Lion hunt at 32 yards!
10. New Zeeland Tar
11. Dick Kriby of Quaker Boy Calls
12. Taking kids hunting
13. Favorite wild game meal
14. African hunting
15. Eric Trump
16. Early years of hunting and archery shooting
17. One piece of advice for young people

Danny talks about magna porting his shotgun barrel.

1. He won a auction to get his barrel magna ported
2. Mike just did an On The Trial segment on Muzzle Brakes
3. It does increase the loudness of the shot blast
4. Hearing protecton while hunting

New Limb Walker Game Call

1. New Aluminum surface pot calls
2. Double Sided glass over slate
3. Glass call
4. Slate Call

Conditioning calls

1. Primos Slick Stick
2. Box call chalk
3. Cleaning your peg with Scotch Brite
4. Mouth calls and mouth wash

Locator calls

1. Owl hooters
2. Crow call
3. Peacock call

Mike and Dan interviewed State of Michigan Representative of the 105th District Triston Cole who sits on the Michigan Sportsman's Caucus.

1. Tell your State Rep. what concerns you in the outdoors
2. What is the Sportsman's Caucus?
3. What do they do for us?
4. The Lantern Fly
5. How do they help us in the outdoors?
6. Is there bipartisan efforts working together to help the outdoors?
7. How do they bridge the gap between hunters and the DNR?
8. Triston talks about his outdoor experiences and his family
9. How your voice counts

What is the Jacobson Organ in a Whitetail Deer and what is it used for?

1. It is in the roof of the mouth of a buck and a doe
2. Used in conjunction with lip curling
3. Bucks use it to test for pheromones in the air to see if doe is ready for breeding
4. Does will use it to sense blood and birthing fluid also for smoke, creosote, exhaust, etc....

Mike heads out on a night coon hunt.

1. Running bluetic hounds
2. Treed four coons
3. Shot two
4. Muddy fields makes for heavy boots
5. Talking fur prices

Danny heads to the Michigan Deer and Turkey Spectacular

1. Dan shoots some new releases and PSE bows
2. Good crowds
3. Stan Releases
4. Field and Stream Big Buck display

Mike and Dan talk about their experience at Turtle Lake Hunt Club where Dr. James Kroll conducted the 15th annual deer herd health check by performing necropsies on does selectively harvested.

1. Oldest deer camp in Michigan est. 1884
2. Lots of Michigan deer management people in attendance
3. Very educational
4. Mike's fourth necropsy, Dan's first
5. Live weight of deer
6. Special deer permits to take deer in February
7. Sharp shooters with neck shots
8. Bone marrow samples and what it shows
9. Kidney fat index and what it shows
10. Collect ovaries
11. Fat tissue and what that tells us
12. Stomach and it's parts
13. Liver and liver flukes
14. Measuring fetus' and what that tells us and how we can use this information to change the age structure of our deer herd
15. The trickle rut and how that affects our bucks and the fawns that are born the next spring
16. Checking for indicators of TB
17. Oakland County Michigan Suspect TB case

Talking with Gabby Garza who attended the event with us. She is a new hunter and we got to hear her take on what she learned.

1. Was surprised about how open Dr. Deer was with sharing the information while performing the necropsies
2. Was amazed by the whole process
3. Learning how to gut a deer
4. Deer are donated to food pantry
5. Wondered how long the fetus' lived after the doe was shot
6. CWD, everyone has an opinion and theory

Talking with Triston Cole Michigan State Representative in the 105th district.

1. Sits on the Michigan Sportsmen's Caucus as a co-chair
2. 90% of DNR budget comes from hunting and fishing licenses
3. Works on the behalf of sportsmen of Michigan
4. He's an outdoorsmen and worked in the outdoors as a guide
5. Works with Representatives that have never had a wild outdoor experience and takes them out so they can experience what we do

Checking in to see how the winter logging project looked

1. Looking forward to seeing what the area will become
2. Saw a lot of deer in the cutting
3. Had a lot of dead wood in the section
4. Checked the oak wilt area as well

Mike and Dan talk with Dan Jasa who finished 5th at the Lancaster Archery Tournament last week about his shoot.

1. Prepping for the Las Vegas shoot next weekend
2. How the Lancaster tournament works
3. The mental game
4. The bow set up
5. Arrow set up
6. The mental game during the competition
7. Shot process
8. Do you think about who you're shooting against
9. How much practice time to prepare for the tournament
10. The practice process
11. Arrow points, glue in vs screw in
12. Spooky Nook
13. Shooting in the venue, what was that experience like
14. Pressure is living in the 20 seconds of the shot
15. The gallery down both sides of the shooting lanes
16. How the tournament has grown
17. How the lighting changes the look while you're shooting
18. Lane choice
19. When tied it goes to a shoot off and how it works
20. Second to last round an errant shot!
21. Bare Bow Divisions
22. Growning the sport and sponsors
23. Spectators
24. Peaking during practice or during the tournament
25. What to expect in the Vegas shoot
26. Vegas shoot broadcast

Carbon Express Contest and giveaway

Interview with Pedro de Ampuero, international hunter from Spain

1. Had the opportunity to talk with him in the PSE truck at the ATA show
2. Pedro's Background
3. List of animals in Spain that are available to hunt
4. The Yukon moose hunt
5. Listening to nature
6. Mountain hunting
7. Works for KUIU Europe
8. Take the good and bad in hunting and enjoy it all
9. Fresh moose backstraps over 5 days of bacon
10. Looking forward to February Ibex hunt in Turkey

While at the ATA show a few weeks back we had the pleasure of meeting Mike Gustafson from Buckhaven Learning Ctr. and talk with him about their hunt with combat wounded and disabled vets.

1. www.buckhaven.org
2. 12 hunters a year
3. Provide everything except travel
4. If you can't make the events feel free to donate
5. Mike talks about his most memorable hunt with a vet and it's POWERFUL!

We talk with Tim Sias of Limb Walker Game Calls about his turkey pot calls.

1. Got started making calls by looking for a hobby
2. It grew into a business
3. Got the passion for hunting from his father
4. Started going out with his father at age 2 and 3 squirrel hunting
5. Got the turkey bug around 11 or 12 years old
6. His dad taught him all about turkeys
7. Shot his first turkey at age 19
8. Tim's favorite call is the glass over slate pot call
9. His favorite wood to use and why
10. What wood sounds better
11. What striker material works best
12. Acrylic strikers work in the wet on a slate call
13. End of the striker shapes dictate the sound as well
14. Striker head shapes and weight
15. Diamond wood is the most popular striker material currently
16. How long does it take to make a call
17. Custom work
18. The Turkey Sling
19. Where did the idea come from

West Virginia is restoring their elk herd

1. Brought 24 elk into WV last January from Kentucky
2. A few of the calves have died
3. Arizona has 60 elk in quarantine now that will be transported to WV this year
4. Another 15-20 from Kentucky will also be brought into WV this year
5. The elk are micro chipped and collared
6. Tim has a live stream every Friday at 8pm on his personal Facebook page

Live at Cabela's Wildgame Food Weekend

1. Sampling wildgame food that was prepared to sample for customers showing them how to use wildgame for the Big Game!
2. Food preparation gear giveaway

Wrap up of after hours events at the ATA show in Indianapolis.

1. Outtech
2. Hudalla
3. 3rd annual podcast mashup meet and greet with Hunt Fish Travel, Take Aim and Rut and River Pursuits podcasts

Dan talks about making his Hunter Sticks with his deer this year

1. What is mixed with deer meat to make the Hunter Sticks
2. The process for making them
3. Vacuum sealing the finished product

Cost of processing your deer

1. What do you want out of it
2. What area of the state are you having it done in
3. Is it a fly by night processor or a regular butcher

Making a roast

Badlands Film Festival

1. 5th annual festival at the ATA Show
2. Long film segment is 7 -10 minutes
3. Short film segment is 3 -5 minutes
4. Winners were all first time film makers to this event
5. Long form winner was a hunt for a Billy Goat in Colorado with a mother who was sick
6. Short film was a traditional on the ground bear hunt in Alaska
7. The films this year took a different point of view

Mike and Dan talk with Outdoor Channel videographer Ben LaLonde.

1. Chased his dream job
2. Works for the Outdoor Channel
3. News was the stepping stone to bigger things
4. Thought about the Travel Channel
5. After 12 - 15 applications with no call he was starting to wonder
6. One email changed his fortune
7. 2 months later he was hired
8. First assignment was Hawaii
9. In Alaska chasing dangerous game
10. Thinking about grizzlies made him a bit nervous
11. 150 miles into the Arctic Circle
12. Most embarrassing moment
13. Bad rain gear leads to hypothermia and dehydration
14. Pee color is important
15. A good exhaustion
16. Looking through the lens
17. Working with Dr. James Kroll aka Dr. Deer
18. Watching the way nature works is simply incredible
19. Everything fades away
20. Being behind the lens is different than being behind the trigger
21. https://www.facebook.com/ben.lalonde.5

Archery Trade Association show 2018

1. 4 hard days
2. Attendance was down
3. Not as many vendors
4. Garmin Xero bow sight was the wow factor of the show
5. Dan liked Con Quest Scents doe in heat test kit
6. Mike liked the PSE Stealth Carbon riser bow
7. Mike also liked the Primos see through blind
8. Native Blinds concept
9. Fourth Arrow Camera Arms new products
10. Wynd Scents new products
11. Carbon Express AtlAtl
12. Rambo Bikes
13. Got our hands on a brand new bow that the public has never seen
14. Danny breaks a crossbow