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On this episode of ‘Network Outdoors The Podcast’ Brandon Malson sits down with outdoorsman & owner of Michigan Lake & Pond, Zach Goodheart, to discuss managing bodies of water for ideal habitat and wildlife. Zach shares very valuable insight to help someone maintain management practices on their own, gets into the different species of vegetation you want, how to remove and manage invasive plants, water sources, building bottom structure to create ideal environments for holding f...

On this episode of ‘Network Outdoors The Podcast’ Brandon Malson sits down with avid angler, Sarah Szymanski (@mitten_chick_outdoors), to talk all things brook trout!This beautiful, “grumpy”, native Michigan fish is Sarah’s go-to target species and she explains the many reason they stand out amongst the rest. They dig into the ideal habit and water conditions that tend to hold brook trout, where to find these beauties and what their behaviors are, using fly fishing tactics, different spin rod...

On this episode of ‘Network Outdoors The Podcast’ Brandon Malson meets with owner of Great Lakes Guided Outdoors, Conner Gough, to go deep on how to spend your time and what to do to be successful turkey hunting opening day.Conner and the GLGO team have a wild success rate of getting their clients a close range shot 100% of the time, every season, for the last 11 years in business. Having a track record like that certainly doesn’t begin on opening morning at first light. A lot of work go...

On this episode of ‘Network Outdoors The Podcast’ Brandon Malson meets with world champion wild game caller, public land hunter, Beau Brooks, to dive deep into all things spring turkey, elk, and waterfowl hunting.Beau is an incredible wealth of knowledge and generously shares detailed techniques to use in different hunting scenarios. They talk about several call sequences that work best and when to use them, best practices for improving your calling, how to hunt each sub species of turk...

On this episode of ‘Network Outdoors The Podcast’ Brandon Malson sits down to discuss upland hunting wild birds with Gareth Allen, avid outdoorsman and owner of Bird Up Guide Service.They dive deep into wild pheasants, grouse and woodcock, where to find them on public land, hunting strategies, how to e-scout, what to do once you’re able to get boots on the ground, weather patterns, and how Gareth runs his dogs. Gareth shares insight to bird feeding habits, roosting patterns, breeding, early s...

On this episode of ‘Network Outdoors The Podcast’ Brandon Malson and Will Good, owner of Mitten Drahthaar Kennels & avid outdoorsmen, sit down inside of the kennel headquarters to discuss hunting dogs.Will shares the process he went through to choose which breed of dog was best for what type of hunting he does and his family's activity level. He discusses the importance and significance of different certifications dogs can get, details that go into the breeding process specifically for Dr...