Episode 456, Interview with Lance Valentine of Walleye 101, Deer Starvation and Lack of Habitat
Release Date: 03/19/2018
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info_outlineMike and Dan talk with Lance Valentine of Walleye 101 fishing school.
- Finishing up the fishing show circuit
- Show attendance was down due to weather and March Madness tournament
- 1st week of April on the Detroit River
- After Mother's Day it's the Saginaw Bay and Saginaw River pre and post spawn
- Vertical jigging for walleye
- Jig head colors and body color
- Fish where the fish are
- No live bait, tip with plastics
- How to set up baits
- Fall rates and angels are also important
- Talking lines
- Dealing with current
- [email protected]
- How important is rod size and reel type
- Denali rods Myriad Series for walleye
- Fishing for Detroit River Walleye
- Accounting Major and Minor in Marketing and how that relates to being a teacher of fishing and a fishing guide
- Fishing education weekend
- Women involvement in fishing
- http://www.walleye101.com/fishing_101
Mike made a trip to deer camp to learn about habitat and found something that wasn't good.
- Met with a few deer managers and habitat managers to look over our hunting property
- Trying to educate myself as much as I possibly can
- Found a deer that starved to death more than likely
- We did a health check on the deer carcass
- Found that the little buck was eating white pine needles and sweet fern stems
- No nutritional value to the deer
- This tells us we need to make changes
- Too many deer and not enough food
- Over browsing can destroy regeneration of new trees after logging