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Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired-to-Hunt Foundations Podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and this week's show is all about understanding wind.

A couple of weeks ago, I did an episode on bugs and creepy crawlies and the inevitable multi-legged nastiness that you'll deal with while scouting and hunting at some point.

There are just some parts of what we do.

They're always there and always influencing our hunts.

And never get as much love as, I don't know, three hot new tactics for hunting the rut or how to east scout whatever.

Well, wind is one of those elements of any hunt, and let me tell you this.

If you don't understand how moving air affects your hunts, you're going to have a lot of bad hunts.

You are an out of luck partner.

This goes for a lot of different pursuits, but it's so important to deer hunting, elk hunting, bear hunting, probably some other kinds of hunting I'm forgetting.

When I was in high school, a buddy and I drove six hours north to the edge of the boundary waters to stay with my aunt and uncle while we fished our hearts out.

Those ealy area lakes were like heaven to us, partially because the undeveloped shorelines and unpressured fish,

and partially because the folks who did spend a lot of time on the water up there always fished hungry.

They targeted wall eyes and mostly crappies throughout the summer and would often spear northerens in the winter.

The pressure was on the good eating fish, so the smallies in the large mouth up there were largely ignored by the locals, which made it so much fun.

Well, my buddy, who we'll call Hawk, because that's what we call him.

He and I drove up there to fish for a few days, and like we did in that time of our life, and for way too many years afterwards, we brought a bottle of vodka with us.

Right before my aunt and uncle went to sleep, my aunt casually said that we should go outside and check out the northern lights.

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