Up North Journal Podcast

Join the guys tonight as they talk with Dean Smith a Michigan Hunter about the 3 Do It Yourself hunts he took recently in Alaska for Caribou and Blacktail deer. He gives a few things to lookout for and suggestions on how you too can take a trip of a lifetime!

Planning the trip 2018 Caribou Hunt

1. Getting a group together
2. Time frame
3. Choosing an air transporting service
4. Getting your license to hunt
5. Getting gear out to hunting location
6. Clothes and food
7. Dealing with medical emergencies
8. Water supply
9. Making fire
10. Taking photos
11. The hunt
12. Long distance shooting

The 2020 Blacktail Hunt

1. Why Kodiak Island
2. Grizzlies
3. What was different than the 2018 hunt
4. A more physically demanding hunt than 2018
5. Conditioning before the hunt
6. Packing meat home

The 2022 Caribou Hunt

1. Flying in land vs water landings
2. Price ranges for the hunts
3. Time of the year
4. Weather conditions
5. What did you do differently this time back for caribou
6. Archeology site

Talking with Kip Adams of the National Deer Association about the good of mandatory deer checks and how this is going to change management here in Michigan.

20 years with Deer Management

1. He has been involved with QDMA and NDA for 20 years
2. Announcement from NDA today
3. Field to Fork
4. The 3 R's
5. 20-30 year age group is now the focus
6. The Back 40 with Mark Kenyon
7. www.nationaldeerassociation.com

Michigan's Mandatory Deer Checks

1. Pennsylvania has had theirs in effect for many years
2. How it use to be done
3. How the data is going to help
4. Pennsylvania data comes out a few months after season is over
5. Michigan is now the gold standard
6. Real time data available to the hunters
7. This will help to make better management decisions
8. Is dropping a pin point for kill site location a concern for hunters?
9. Location is key for management
10. How is the Amish community counted for deer kills?
11. What is the future information that we might get from this program?
12. Reporting is quick and easy
13. Could this be used to report diseased deer?

Other educational opportunities through NDA

Talking tonight with Randy Stoppenhaggen of C3 Mitts about the Idaho elk season which has already started. We will be covering a little bit about new info on elk breeding that Randy just learned about and talking about his recent elk hunt.

Talking C3 Mitts

1. Huge sale right now
2. Multi Mitt
3. Bow Mitt
4. Crossbow Mitt
5. Rifle Mitt
6. Shotgun Mitt

Idaho Elk Hunting

1. Wildfires and the affect it has on elk and other animals
2. Bear encounter
3. Animal activity in smoky situation
4. Hunting set up in early season
5. Up close elk encounter

Elk Breeding

1. Rock Jacobson elk seminar
2. August breeding
3. Breeding season will dictate the success of survival rate
4. Breeding cow calls
5. Moon timing
6. Bull calling
7. Estrus cycle 2nd and 3rd time
8. Bull stress of continuous breeding on multiple cycles
9. How hieroglyphs played into what we know about the early estrus cycle
10. 13 days past full moon

Less than a month to the opener of archery deer season, so it's time to get those arrows ready for the treestand! Tonight we are talking arrow builds for the upcoming hunting season. We are talking with Derek Vaughn of Sunrise Archery on what we need to do to get ready for the opener!

Pro Shop's busy time of the year

1. Strings
2. Equipment
3. Arrows

Fletchings

1. Four Fletchings
2. Helicals
3. Five and Six Fletchings
4. Slip over fletchings

Nocks

1. Lighted nocks
2. String serving and D loop fitting the nock

Arrow selection

1. Diameter
2. Grains per inch
3. Target vs hunting
4. Heavy weighted inserts
5. Adding weight
6. Heavy weighted arrows vs a lighter arrow set up

Arrow Scales

Mechanical vs Fixed heads

Broadhead weight

Hunting Indiana and Michigan

Join us in the Cabin as we talk with Chad Stewart a deer biologist for Michigan's DNR about their new mandatory deer harvest reporting rule implemented this season.

Chad Stewart's Outdoor background

1. Pennsylvania background
2. Indiana deer biologist
3. West Virginia
4. Degrees at Penn State and Illinois

Talking about deer hunting heritages in Pennsylvania and Michigan

Michigan's new deer harvest reporting rule

1. Overview of what you need to do when reporting a successful kill
2. What does the confirmation number do for us and what do we do with it
3. What questions do they ask on the report
4. Will you still have check stations to stop at and check your deer in
5. How the confirmation number works
6. Why do I have to list my kill location
7. How does the location work
8. Why should I give them my location
9. What information are we as hunters going to get out of this
10. Reporting multiple deer kills
11. When will the data be available to help make decisions

Talking APR's

Real time data will be available to the DNR and the public

Hunter retention and recruitment

Join us this week in the Cabin as we talk with a father and son team that took on a hiking trip the entire length of Isle Royale National Park! Learn about what it takes and what you need to take with you for such a trip!

Why Isle Royale?

1. Went once before with a friend
2. Wanted his son to experience it

Training for the trip

1. Hiking
2. Using weight in a back pack

Some of the gear used

1. Flashlights
2. Backup Batteries for phones
3. Compass
4. In Reach device
5. Leaving in case of an emergency
6. Boots and walking sticks
7. First aid pack

Items that are must haves

Item you took that you didn't think you'd need but were glad you had

Size of the island

Animals on the island and those that are not on the island

Fishing the island

Shelter permit

Prepare for any weather and the bugs

Water and food

How much water do you need a day

Edible wild food

Making fire

Taking care of business

Shelters

The survey marker

Night sky description

Bug problems and solutions

Planning next trip

Fire towers

Journaling the trip

Join us in the Cabin This week as we find out when is it time to call in the dogs to track and find your deer. Rob Miller of Miller's Deer Tracking tells us when it's time to find a deer tracker and what all is involved in deer tracking dogs.

How did Rob get involved in deer tracking

1. Shot a deer and couldn't find it, tried to find a deer tracker
2. Not many around
3. Decided to Get a dog and learned how to track
4. The process of teaching tracking

Distinguishing one scent from another

What happens with scent when a deer is shot

The training regime for a scent dog

How do I know if I need a tracking dog or not

Knowing your dog

Does human scent affect the dog's nose

How does a rifle differ from a bow in tracking a deer

Does the breed of dog affect the tracking ability

Longest tracks

Danny's experience with dogs on a deer track

Most memorable deer track

State laws and regulations for trackers and dogs

The dog's reward for finding a deer

Best time to track and how weather affects the track

Injured buck chasing dog

Rules concerning dispatching injured deer

Getting into the archery groove tonight by talking with Rob Komyathy of Outtech about the PSE Omen's return to the scene. What is new with the Omen and see the other flagship hunting bows of PSE Archery.

Getting to know Rob and Outtech

1. Worked in the outdoors all his life
2. Loves to fish
3. Outtech 40 years in sales and marketing
4. PSE is now with Outtech

Omen revamped

1. Now has the EC and SE cam systems
2. Still super fast
3. Not as aggressive
4. Incredibly stable
5. Dynamic brace height
6. Comparing the old and the new Omen
7. Comparing the high let off and the low let off mods
8. FDS Technology

Talking about the PSE EVO XF

1. Specs
2. High vs low let offs
3. What do you give up using a high let off

Supply chain affects on shipments

Carbon bow building

Running down the revamped Brute ATK and the Stinger ATK

Getting to know Rob with the UNJ Four Questions

Talking plastic lures tonight with Southern Indiana Bait Company's Zion Dunaway. They have been hitting it hard on the fishing circuit along with getting new baits out for fishermen.

What has Zion been up to this past few months

High School National Fishing Championship

1. Skill level
2. How many teams
3. Money to be had

Getting ready for college

1. Purdue University for forestry and r\urban forestry
2. What is urban forestry

Working with a land management and habitat management company.

What does Southern Indiana Bait Company have to offer

1. southernindianabaitco.com
2. Plastic offering of baits
3. Custom colors and offered colors
4. Paddle tails are hot now
5. Color patterns for late summer
6. What triggers the fish to bite
7. Fishing current flows
8. Current flows with dams and power generators on the rivers

How they got started making baits

How did Zion get started into wildlife and timber management

What does the future hold for Zion

Where do you see yourself in 5 years

Albert Land Management

Timber management looked at in a bad light by those uneducated

Join the guys in the Cabin as they talk with PackerMaxx's own Lincoln Rohn about what we do with our food plots when we have no rain and high temps part 2! The also discuss Michigan's new deer hunting regulations.

PackerMaxx on the show circuit

Weather conditions

1. Wet spring
2. Dry summer
3. Huge rain this week
4. Is this a set up for EHD?

What do we do now

1. Weed control immediately!
2. Can you shorten the time between spraying and planting
3. Costs are up
4. Dial in your program details to save money
5. Using the PackerMaxx to increase germination

PackerMaxx models

1. Different uses
2. Options

Crimper

1. When to seed before crimping
2. When to seed after crimping

Customer service and warranty

New business model to help with product control and costs

What is keeping PackerMaxx going strong with the current economy

Why knowing the exact size of your food plot is important

PackerMaxx Seed Blends

Quick trail cam talk

Talking abut the new Madatory Deer Check and new Michigan Deer Regulations