Up North Journal Podcast

New Blog and Web Sites:

Hooks and Bullets Blog: www.michiganhuntingtoday.com

Up North Journal Hunting Blog: www.upnorthjournalhunting.blogspot.com

A Cool New Web Site: www.myhuntingandfishing.com

Coyote Tips

1. Tyvek suits: http://www.disposable-garments.com/painters_coveralls.html
2. Trail Cams

Outdoor Shows

News

1. Proposed Bill Could Ban Lead Ammunition in Massachusetts http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3362
2. Minnesota's Hunting Heritage is Under Attack http://www.nraila.org/Hunting/Read/HuntingIssues.aspx?ID=3606&type=L
3. Good sense prevails for younger hunters http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080227/SPORTS09/609804493/1005/SPORTS
4. Virginia Removes Youth Hunting Restrictions http://www.nwtf.org/nwtf_newsroom/press_releases.php?id=12483
5. Switcheroo: Bear Found Wearing Goat's Radio Collar http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/newshound/2008/02/switcheroo-bear.html
6. Outrage Of The Week -- For American Hunters and Shooters Association, the Truth Hurts http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3604

Mikey's Game Bag: Turkey Calls

1. Box Calls
2. Friction Calls
3. Mouth Calls

Preparing For Turkey Preseason

Team Kicker Fish's Cody Dawson explains fishing lure scents and attractants and how they are used with our fishing baits.

Want to know why do we have all those bait color choices and which ones to use in certain conditions? On this minicast we talk about that with Team Kicker Fish's Cody Dawson while on a trip to Michigan to fish for Small Mouth Bass.

Cody Dawson and Mara Daugherty get Mike, Dan and Jake to travel north to North Eastern Michigan's Lower Peninsula to chase Small Mouth Bass for three days!

Day one: Long Lake near Alpena Michigan

Day Two: Hubbard Lake and Fletcher's Pond near Alpena

They all talk about the set up, gear, tactics and conditions that led to a great trip!

Stay tuned next week for part two and the final day!

Dan asks Mike about his recent use of trail cameras at his hunting club and how that relates to the other members hunting areas and how they use them to help all the members at the camp.

New Blog Site:

www.michiganhuntingtoday.com/hooksandbullets/

http://mikeysoutdooradventures.blogspot.com/

New Outdoor Web Site:

http://www.myhuntingandfishing.com/

Ice Fishing Weekend

Outdoor News of the Week

1. Power tools and rifle cartridges http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/newshound/2008/02/power-tools-rif.html
2. Trail camera nails burglar http://outdoorlife.blogs.com/newshound/2008/02/hunters-trail-c.html
3. NWTF youth essay contest http://www.nwtf.org/jakes/contests/KS_Gov_essay_08_flyer[1].doc

Mikey's Game Bag

Wood duck nesting boxes part 4 http://www.ducks.org/media/Conservation/Conservation_Documents/_documents/duck_box_plans.pdf

Tips of the Week

1. Ice fishing sinker weight
2. Coyote Decoys

Night Coyote Hunt

Non-hunter Encounters In The Field

http://brhunting2008.blogspot.com/

Mike covers the final process that he went through to complete the tanning of two deer hides from last season and what the end result turns out to be, along with how they will be used.

Mike and Dan talk about the new drone they got to video events and use in outdoor situations for putting videos together about their hunts and other activities.

They also discuss how it can be used to live stream on Periscope

Dan talks about his weekend trip to his deer camp.

1. Opening camp for the summer
2. Expectations on what he would find
3. Clean up and Checklists
4. Leisurely walk down stream
5. Seeing more deer this trip north
6. Expectations for the upcoming season

Mike takes a trip north for the weekend to check cameras and the progress on the logging project at deer camp.

1. Seeing plenty of fawns
2. Checking the progress of the logging project
3. Expectations vs Reality
4. What the trail cameras yielded

Trail Camera Project

1. What the latest find was
2. Managing the project

Ohio Bowfishing Video

1. Mara and Cody take a nice walk with friends to shoot some Longnose Gar
2. Shooting a pile of fish
3. Looking at the video

The guys talk with Randy Duncan about the recent NRA Convention and it's connection to Hillsdale College and the 2nd Amendment.