Up North Journal Podcast

Backwater Legacies and our hunting heritage, how do they go together and how do we pass it on.

Helping a new hunter become successful

1. Teaching others
2. Honing skills
3. Teaching how to track
4. Teaching how to field dress a deer
5. Sharing the success and celebrating that success

Stalking Deer with a camera for the pure enjoyment

What are the differences in hunting Indiana and northern Michigan

1. Habitat
2. Animals
3. Hunting styles

Archery Preseason Prepping

1. Dan is scouting and shooting
2. Mike getting the PSE Decree ready to go

Michigan bear hunt gone wrong

1. Shooting too big of a caliber
2. Tracking bear with hounds
3. Taking time to recover game and going the extra mile
4. Asking for proper permission
5. Landowner helping out

Ohio bow season opener an early report of what's happening in Ohio

1. Mara's opening day
2. What luck others in Ohio are having

PSE Archery Tech Tip with Bobby Vargas

1. How to properly mount a sight
2. How to properly sight in your bow after mounting a new sight
3. Proper pin size

We talk with Bobby Vargas of PSE Archery Marketing about crossbow fundamentals for those new shooters and hunters using a crossbow. They are also great reminders for those of us who have used a crossbow before but might need a little reminder on things to be safe in the field or at the target range.

What is it like to watch your kids venture into the outdoors by themselves for the first time?

• Mike explains his experience last week
• Compares to the fathers that were interviewed two weeks ago
• Red gives his take on his daughters

Negativity hurts all of us hunters and outdoorsmen

• Tresspassing
• Breaking game laws
• Statements used by the anti hunters
• Local story of raccoon being killed that went viral

Q & A with Bobby Vargas of PSE Archery Marketing

• How to choose the proper fletching or vane for your arrow
• Fixed blade application vs Mechanical blade application
• Three vanes vs Four vanes

Ohio Bass Tournament updates

• UNJ Team member Mara Daugherty and her boyfriend Cody Dawson take first place in local bass tournament last weekend
• They didn't do so well this weekend
• Looking forward to Ohio's archery season opener this coming week!

This week we talk with my two sons Michael and Jacob about their field goose hunt where they hunt alone with each other for the first time and Jacob gets to take his first goose ever!

• First morning hunt, they shoot five geese and later find out there is a mystery goose to show up later the next day! Jake takes two geese during this hunt which are his first ever taken!

• Evening hunt of the first day I join the boys with a camera only to watch the only flock of the evening fly over them just out of range. I do manage to get a curious doe on video up close.

• Day two moring hunt, once again they go at it without dad in tow and mange to kill two geese a piece with one of them getting a boat ride out of the deal!

• We end the show by starting up again with our tech tips segment called Q@A with Bobby V! We talk the safety and shooting techniques of crossbows for the upcoming archery season!

Kids Working in the Outdoor Industry a Parents Perspective

• We talk with our newest UNJ Staffer Mara Daugherty about her new found position with our team and how it plays out with work and school.

• We talk with Steve Miller the father of Jake and Nick of the Otown Outdoor team and get his take about his two sons chasing their dreams of working in the outdoor industry and how he helps them chase that dream.

• We talk with Shawn Daugherty the father of Mara about what he thinks of his daughter chasing her dream to work in the outdoor industry and what that means for him and his wife.

• We wrap up the show by talking with Mara once again about a fishing memory from an early age about "Black Beauty" which showed just how determined she was to be in the outdoors at an early age.