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Episode 493, Interview with OTown Outdoors Jake and Nick Miller, Hunting, Filming, Family

Up North Journal Podcast

Release Date: 12/01/2018

Episode 701, Wrapping Up the Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo in Escanaba Michigan show art Episode 701, Wrapping Up the Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo in Escanaba Michigan

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Join us in the Cabin tonight as Danny gives his take on the weekend at the Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo in Escanaba Michigan. We talk about the vendors, the patrons, the venue and overall excitement of the show. We also talk a little about Mike's trip to the U.P. along with the upcoming firearm deer season.

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Join us tonight in the Cabin as we get the final low down on the largest Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo in Michigan's Upper Peninsula! Find out what vendors are going to be there and what the show has to offer outdoorsmen and women. Talking with the five people from the Daily Press that is putting on the show Vendors attending Returning vendors What they have to offer patrons Food vendors Things for kids Places to stay in the area

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Talking with UNJ Member Mark Coleman tonight about the work put in this year for the upcoming deer season in Indiana. He gives us the good, the bad and the ugly on what he expects for the upcoming season at the farm. Summer prep this year at the farm Food plots Licking branches, ropes, scrapes The rut and small fawns Predators New blind locations Trailcam Tuesday Hunting season expectations Hunting with his brothers

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Join us tonight as we get the tables turned on us here at Up North Journal. Daily Press' Rachel Barnstrom interviews the Up North Journal crew to see what makes them tick. We also get to know why a Jersey girl came to Michigan's upper peninsula via London England.

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Join us in the Cabin tonight as we talk with NW Michigan Fishing Club's Tim Hossack about what their club is all about and what they do. He also gives us insight into the gill net consent decree in Michigan and it's potential impacts on our fisheries. What is the NW Michigan Fish Camp? Membership Fishing tournaments Projects Kids Veteran fishing trips Cookouts Gill netting consent decree Insight into the treaty and decree What is the new consent decree What are the potential issues with it How will this affect Michigan fisheries What should fisherman expect to deal with

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Join us tonight as we talk with John Bauman a MI DNR Fisheries Biologist about how he helps the Michigan fisheries to thrive in a delicate habitat.  He also gives us his background that took him into the position he is in now with the Michigan DNR. John's background and early life How he became a fisheries biologist What does he do as a biologist How does the data he gathers play into the future of the Upper Peninsula's fisheries What are the little things he notices that have an affect on how fish thrive How delicate is the fisheries in Michigan

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Join the guys tonight as they talk with Gregg Gerke of GT Rod and Reel about his tungsten jig heads and muskie lures. Gregg gives them the lowdown on using his tackle and how to use it. Gregg's background in fishing How the company started How the beginning of the internet played into a successful business model How he began making lures and jig heads What does he offer now to anglers Using ice fishing gear in the summer Looking into the future

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Tonight we are discussing some of the unique things game managers do in South Africa to maintain and promote healthy game and non game species for the future. What hunters expect going to Africa What they find when they get there How does hunting success begin before the hunter arrives in South Africa How game managers see the animals they manage Where does it all start Key points to management Maintaining the herds Starting a new herd Bringing a new animal into the area Conditioning a stomach How did Covid affect the management process Looking at the habitat side of mangement Taking care of...

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Tonight we take you out on the Big Water! We get to find out how you know when weather conditions are good to hit the open water in a kayak along with a trip on Saginaw Bay to do some walleye fishing. Week of kayaking on big water in northwest Michigan Apps for safety on the water Windfinder App Go Paddling App Paddling Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes Paddling Duck Lake Paddling Lake Dubonett Paddling Glen Lake, Little and Big Fischer Lakes Paddling Crystal River Paddling at sunset on Lake Michigan at Empire Bluffs Visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes on the top side of the dunes Danny takes a...

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Join us in the Cabin tonight because it's time to get your fish on! We talk soft water lures with Patrick Huddleston from Hudd's Fishing Lures about what to use on the water along with how he got involved in making fishing lures that you can purchase. How Pat got his start in making fishing lures His childhood fishing experience with his dad How his career in the military gave him the opportunity to fish in different places and how it also gave him time to learn to build his own lures Perfecting his lure building What he learned along the way How Hudd's Lures came into being His first lures...

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Mike and Dan talk with Jake and Nick Miller of OTown Outdoors. They start off with CWD.

  1. The guys discuss CWD in Michigan
  2. CWD discussion about Ohio
  3. One buck talk and doe tags
  4. Ohio deer numbers down

Talking hunting with the family.

  1. Hunting with all three kids
  2. Nick's Ohio buck and how it unfolded
  3. Jake's Ohio buck and how it unfolded
  4. Passing along the family tradition
  5. Holidays means talking hunting with family

Why stick and string vs gun during this gun season

  1. Still use firearms but love the close range of bow hunting
  2. Hunter's orange while bow hunting during firearm season

Learning from mistakes

  1. Pushes to keep going forward
  2. Some things you cannot control
  3. Uncontrollable situations keeps driving you

Preparing for the hunt throughout the year

  1. Shed hunting
  2. Scouting for turkeys
  3. Some archery shooting
  4. Turkey hunting
  5. Trail cameras
  6. Food plots

Hunting access

  1. Have several local spots which means quick access
  2. Public lands
  3. Summer scouting

Discussion on driving vehicles into your hunting area vs not driving

  1. Situational
  2. Some spots have regular traffic
  3. Low traffic areas deer seem to pattern traffic

Stand placement

  1. Time of year
  2. When time allows to place a stand
  3. Scent control while placing stands
  4. Hunting the wind
  5. Smoking hunting clothes for cover scent
  6. Ozonics
  7. How hunting the wind makes you more aware of your surrounding area which makes you a better hunter

Looking at entry into stand sites

  1. Built a food plot with entry in mind
  2. Access might be dictated by size of property
  3. Worried more about being quiet
  4. Using headlamps again during access
  5. Clearing a path to the stand sites

Firearm straight walled cartridges

  1. Ohio just changed rule to allow straight walled cartridges
  2. They want to try it for sure

Heart photo!

  1. Nick's heart shot
  2. From buck he shot this fall

Fawn photo

  1. Late season fawn with spots
  2. Photo from same day Nick shot his buck
  3. Late fawn drop
  4. Late fawn survival
  5. Predators
  6. Coyote breeding due to alpha female dying in the pack.

Dream hunts

  1. Nick talks about turkey hunting every state
  2. Jake talks about a Yukon Moose hunt

Favorite recipe of wild game meat

Processing your own meat photo

Hunting and Patriotic photo