Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. All right, what's up, Vortex Nation, coming at you from Prince of Wells Island in Southeast Alaska.

I got two of my really good buddies here, Rob Ensley

and Jesse Knox.

And before I ramble on, I'm going to have these guys

introduce themselves, because as per usual,

they can do it better than I can.

So Rob, why don't we just go left to right, right to left, whatever side you're on and tell me, or tell, you

don't need to tell me, tell our listeners a little bit about yourself and what you got going on.

Yeah, Rob Ensley here.

We run Prince of Wells Sport Fishing here in Craig Alaska in the summertime,

spend the winners on the Outdoor Land Radio Show on 710 ESP in in Seattle which is kind of how you and I met

quite a few years ago but lucky enough to spend summers here in Craig Alaska on

Prince Wales Island and lucky enough to have this stud right here next to me as my next to our neighbor to Jesse Knox.

Yeah, and gosh, you know, Chris Scennial, who also hunted with us, we were up here Black Bear hunting early.

This is springtime. I usually don't get up here till the end of May, but we came up a little

early this year, do a little blacktail hunt. Chris and I were talking a couple years ago where I was talking about

hunts, you know, what's something we could do, you know? Let's put in for that black bear hunt up there and then you and I ran into each other at

Shod Show and you and Jesse like hey we put in too like well why don't we all get together

and go black bear hunting up there you know and that's kind of why we're here.

We went on this epic black bear hunt and now we're kind of post hunt bringing you kind of the

details of what just happens so anyway that's why I'm sitting here with you

Mark and you Jesse and let's rock and roll. Awesome awesome now Jess this is your

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