The Up North Journal Team has announced that Episode 7 of Beyond The Wild is now available for viewing at: www.upnorthjournal.com or by simply going to iTunes and subscribing to Beyond The Wild.  In this episode you will see the 2010 ATA coverage from the UNJ team along with seven interviews with industry leaders that attended the ATA show in Columbus Ohio this past January.  They also take you out on the frozen waters of Houghton Lake Michigan for a little ice fishing excursion.  Last of all team member and UNJ Pro Staffer Jim Stephan gets you up to date with what he has been up to since leaving Michigan and heading to Wyoming to live.  Take time to check out the latest show and then tell a friend about the show!

     It isn’t going to be long until turkey season is upon us!  With that in mind, we stopped at the Quaker Boy booth at this year’s ATA show in Columbus, Ohio!  Dave Streb who is the VP of Sales and Marketing demonstrated a new turkey vest for us during an interview with him.  This new vest isn’t just a vest for turkey hunting, it doubles as a guile suit for the complete concealment package while running and gunning for those big spring gobblers!  Take a look at the Vest-A-Blind in the video we produced covering just one of the hot new products from the 2010 ATA show!

     Yes I’m still alive and well!  To those of you who regularly follow this blog I know is has been over a month since my last post, but I have a very good reason as to why this has happened. Read the rest of this entry »

     The Up North Journal Team has launched their new website and they invite you to stop by and check out the new digs! You can find it at the same ‘ol place: www.upnorthjournal.com you will find a new interactive video panel that will play their most current video and will eventually have the most current episode of their upcoming new video show. You will also be able to click the link to take you to the archive page of all their videos. Not only does it have the video player but it also offers an audio panel that has the most current episode of their podcast with a scrolling banner with an outline of the current show. The link below the player also takes you to an archive page of past episodes for download or playing right from the site.     At the bottom of the page you will find all the Up North Journal Pro Staff members. By clicking their photos you will be taken to each members personal bio page which will host a video of each member talking about themselves and the game they like to persue. Included on their personal bio page is all the links to their own blogs, and other internet links they are associated with such as facebook, twitter, and email address’.

     The site is not 100% completed but the important items are there, so keep looking for further updates to the site and bios on the prostaff pages. When your finished taking the tour, be sure to drop them an email and let them know what you think about the new digs!

     After taking a few weeks off from blogging, I’ve got the urge to get writing again and today I have finished the first step in our new food plots.  Read the rest of this entry »

     Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Scott, the Vice President of Whitetail Institute of North America about the basics of food plots.  As you may already know, Whitetail Institute of North America produces seeds for various crops that are designed for wild game food plots.  Below you will find a few of the basic questions I asked and the answers he gave. Read the rest of this entry »

                                                                                   What a wild week for the Up North Journal Team!  Turkey season is in full swing and I had the opportunity to guide a first time turkey hunter this weekend.  I managed to call in not one, not two, but four toms for him to choose from.  He took the double bearded tom out of the bunch!  We cover that story this week along with a nice interview with the Vice President of Whitetails Institute on the basics of food plots and what they can do for the health fo the deer herd.

Mikey covers the basics of a do it yourself turkey fan taxidermy job in this week’s Mikey’s Game Bag, then I cover a few of the new crossbows we recieved to kick off our crossbow review this spring.  Check out what else the Up North Journal crew has been up to this week by listening to this week’s installment of the Up North Jouranl podcast.

     Before you head out to church on Sunday Morning be sure to set your DVR to record the CBS Sunday morning news magazine show “Sunday Morning”.  This Sunday Bill Geist is going to feature some of the callers from the 2009 Elk Calling Championship in Fort Worth Texas. Read the rest of this entry »

  When you hear the names Mike and Mike one either puts the two together with the morning radio duo or you either think of the Up North Journal Podcast team.  Not this time, the two Mikes I’m talking about this time does include one of the Mikes from the Up North Journal but the other one is Michael Waddell.  In the newest edition of the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Xtreme Jakes magazine are articles on Michael Waddell and the youngest of the two Mike Adams from Up North Journal.

Mikey as we like to call him is featured in this quarter’s NWTF youth magazine about his outdoor experiences and how he relates them to the podcast that the Up North Journal team produces.  Being that I’m his father and the one who he teams up with on the podcast I’m quite proud of this accomplishment.  I was offered the opportunity to write an article about my son for the magazine along with providing photos and a video clip that we shot.  To be featured in a magazine with Michael Waddell is any kids dream and it certainly surprised Mikey that he was in the same issue as the host of Bone Collectors. 

     Check out the latest issue by following this link to see what Mikey has accomplished as a 14 year old teenager.  He has done more in the outdoors in the last couple of years than what most adults get to do.  Congrats Mikey!   When you get to the page (pages 2 and 3) his article is on, be sure to double click the page to zoom in so you can read the article.  This is the second issue of the Xtreme Jakes magazine to be released as an E magazine or internet only  magazine.  It is one of the latest endeavors of the NWTF to provide their magazines to a wider audience.  They also offer Turkey Call as an online magazine for the hunting community.  Make sure you tell the hunting youth that you know about this new online magazine for teenagers.

     A couple of weekends ago while at the ATA show in Indianapolis, I ran into Gary Reed from Dead Down Wind at a press conference.  I thought that this was going to be a run of the mill talk on the same ‘ol product for 2009.  Boy was I wrong!  Not only does Dead Down Wind make products for the hunter who is worried about scent control, but they now make something that is for the fisherman in the outdoors.  Take a quick look at the new products that Dead Down Wind is offering the outdoorsmen for the upcoming hunting and fishing seasons by clicking the video link below.  To watch in high quality click on the appropriate control panel in the video player listed as “HQ”.