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A weekly podcast covering the topics and people that make Montana’s Outdoors like no other place in the world.
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Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with the CEO of Energy Keepers and Tribal Member, Brian Lipscomb. Energy Keepers, Inc owns and operates the dam and hydroelectric project on Flathead Lake. You'll be very surprised by what you learn when you listen this podcast! Energy Keepers is the first tribally owned company to own and operate a major hydroelectric facility in the United States and list goes on from there. There is ton fascinating info...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale has his guests George Bumann and Jenny Golding give you an exclusive preview of the internet sensation known as the Yellowstone Summit! This year the online Summit is set for February 19ththrough the 22nd. Registration for the online event starts this Monday the 2nd. What is the Yellowstone Summit? Well, the best way to find out is to listen to or watch this week’s podcast, but in brief the Yellowstone Summit is...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with Race Organizer and longtime competitor Jennifer Butler about the world of Skijoring in Montana. These competitions are absolutely wild and when listen the podcast you will without a doubt confirm that! A Skijoring competition is done with teams made up of a person riding a horse that pulls a skier. In Jennifer’s case, she is the rider on the horse and her fearless son David is the on the skis! As Rigg...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale interviews quite possibly the smartest person you will ever see on the Montana Outdoor Podcast! Dr Johnna Infanti is one of the top weather scientists around. When you listen to the Podcast you will learn that one of her many specialties is researching the climate patterns known as El Niño and La Niña. Those two opposing climate patterns can affect Montana’s weather in major ways. Sometimes with good results and...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with the Director of the 14th annual Hebgen Lake Ice Fishing Tournament, Garrett Ostler. With a total prize purse of likely $10,000 or maybe even higher, this tournament is one of the richest and for sure most fun ice fishing tournaments in Montana. Hebgen Lake is a beautiful lake near West Yellowstone Montana. Garrett does a great job of going over all the details about the tournament which takes place on...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale takes you Dogsledding with the owner of Basecamp Bigfork, Mark Schurke! You have got to see this one gang! Folks are having a blast with this, and it is likely because of the way Mark does it. Yeah, you can sit and ride on the dog sled, which is a ton of fun, but Mark actually lets you become the Musher! That’s the person that, for the lack of a better word, drives the dog sled and that makes it even more fun. I...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks to a couple fellas that are new to the Podcast from Trout On The Fly, Fly Fishing Outfitters based out of Bozeman. You will meet Nate Sevane the owner of Trout On The Fly and his Lead Ice Fishing Guide Matt Hoff. They tell Rigger about ice fishing on Georgetown and Canyon Ferry lakes plus two other lakes that Rigger has never talked about on the Podcast, Ennis Lake and Harrison Lake. Ennis Lake is of cours...
Send us a text Downrigger Dale talks with Don Wilkins one of the most in demand fishing guides in America! You will learn all kinds of ice fishing tips and tricks. Don also gives some awesome safety tips and you will hear about how Don sets up his tip ups, the kind of rods and reels he recommends as well as jigs that can catch monster lakers and King Salmon through the ice! There is much more as well! Links: Click here to learn more about Don Wilkins.To learn more about Fort Peck Reservoir in...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger went behind the scenes of the Fort Peck Hatchery to find out how a King Salmon can go from a tiny egg to one of the most sought after and hardest fighting fish in Montana’s largest body of water. This Podcastis destined to be a classic so we thought we would call this one “Rigger and the Salmon Factory”! Yes, we are talking about the mighty King Salmon or more accurately known as the Chinook Salmon, which is the Ever...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger start a new series that will preview the most popular ice fishing areas in Montana with top ice fishing professionals. To kick it all off Rigger brings on the top fishing guide in Northwest Montana as well as one of the top guides in the State if not the Country. Captain Matt McComb with Fish On Charters. Matt puts on a masterclass about ice fishing. Matt covers all the best lakes for ice fishing and tells you what s...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Downrigger Dale turned over the reins to his buddy Roger Fishwell to do the hosting duties. Ol’ Rigger needed to take a little time off. If you listen or watch the podcast on a regular basis you will recognize Roger he is the one you hear or see introduce Rigger on the podcast every week. Rog also works in our research department as well as many other things. But Don’t worry good ol’ Rigger will be back next week unless he gets lost out ...
Send us a text You know it’s true! If you love to fish for Walleye, you just have to pass that 30 plus inch benchmark and until you do things just never feel complete, right? This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks to Ken Ault and his girlfriend and fishing partner Amy McComas about Ken’s seemingly never ending quest to get his 30 plus incher! This podcast is A LOT of fun to watch or listen to. You will hear how Ken and Amy decided to switch from bottom bounci...
Send us a text Get ready everyone! This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale got a hold of the Executive Director of the Montana State Parks Foundation Megan Buecking and asked her if she knew anything about the rumors that some of Montana’s Ghost Towns are actually haunted. Not only did she know about that, but she is a bit of an expert on the topic and took poor ole Rigger on a podcast tour that he will not soon forget. In fact, we are pretty sure that everyone arou...
Send us a text This week your host Downrigger Dale talks with Wildlife Manager Brett Dorak from Region 7 in Southeast Montana. Did you know that Region 7 is the largest hunting Region in Montana? So literally there is lots to cover in this Podcast. Rigger had a great conversation with Brett and in fact, Brett also threw out a few surprises that you just must hear. Here is a little hint; wait and until you hear what happened to the Antelope population there in just one year! As Brett put it, “...
Send us a text Oh boy this is a "good un" as Rigger likes to say! This week your host Downrigger Dale talks with Wildlife Manager Cory Loecker from Region 4 in north central Montana. In this podcast Rigger and Cory will give you all kinds of great info on where to find the game you are looking in Region 4. Some of you may not know this but Region 4 has all 10 of the big game species you can hunt in Montana, so there was lots for Rigger to cover with Cory and yes there were some surprises. So ...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale continues his annual Montana Regional Hunt Preview Series to bring you the latest on how the hunting will be in each of the 7 hunting regions across Montana. This week Rigger talks with Wildlife Manager Matt Ladd in Region 5 located in south central Montana. Rigger and Matt take a deep dive into everything south central Montana has to offer in the way of hunting, and boy is it A LOT! They talk about all kinds of...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Your host Downrigger Dale continues his annual Montana Regional Hunt Preview Series to bring you the latest on how the hunting will be in each of the 7 hunting regions across Montana. This week your Rigger talks to Region 3 Wildlife Manager, Warren Hansen and Communication and Education Manager, Morgan Jacobsen and boy did they have lots to say about all the different species you can hunt there in region 3. For starters Warren talk...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast we are doing something for the first time ever! We are doing a Montana Outdoor Podcast Double Feature! That’s right, you will be able to watch and or listen to two different podcasts this week. This half of of our Double Feature is all about Region 2, located in the central part of Western Montana. Rigger heads to Missoula to talk to MT FWP Regional Access Manager, Trenton Heisel. Trenton gives some awesome advice about gaining hunting a...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast we are doing something for the first time ever! We are doing a Montana Outdoor Podcast Double Feature! That’s right, you will be able to watch two different podcasts this week. This half of our double feature (the one you are looking at now) has your host Downrigger Dale talking to FWP Region 1 Wildlife Manager Neil Anderson about what the hunting will be like in Montana FWP Region 1 located in Northwest Montana. This podcast...
Send us a text This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale starts his annual series of Hunt Preview Podcasts. That’s when he talks to Wildlife Managers and other folks with Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks to find out what the hunting will be like in each of the 7 hunting Regions across Montana. In this first podcast in the series Rigger talks with Scott Thompson, Wildlife Manager for Region 6 located in northeast Montana. When you listen to this podcast you will be able...
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