Chauncey's Great Outdoors

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 8-3-2024 show, we are LIVE at Paul’s Pizza and Hot Dogs in Westchester Illinois and we will hear from Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report Ken Husker O’Malley a fishing fanatic and pro staffer, Wayne Libra From Water Werks Marine and Jim Crowley from Jim Crowley Outdoors. Mike Reynolds will be our cohost today and we will have a cast of thousands! Drinkin...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 7-27-2024 show, we'll have Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report calling in if he is close in, no cell towers 10 miles out. Then we will have Jayette Bolinski the Communications Director for the Illinois DNR to talk about my favorite place, Conservation World at the Illinois State Fair that’s coming up. Then Steve Welch from Lake Shelbyville Guide Service...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 7-20-2024 show, we hope Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report calling in if he is close in, no cell towers 10 miles out. Then we will have Bret Davanaugh and his fishing partner Alex Bielfeldt from Reed Custer High School, who will be going to the Bassmaster National Championship at the beginning of August to compete against 350 other boats for the nationa...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 7-13-2024 show, we have Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report calling in if he is close in, no cell towers out 10 miles out. Then Eilleen Rice, my favorite first grade school teacher from East Prairie School in Skokie with her fishing program for kids, did something we all need to remember. She took her Mother In Law who loves fishing but because of age an...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 7-6-2024 show, we have The Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report calling in, Then Tim Mondl from the Forest Preserve District of Cook County talking about the cool things we all can do in the forest preserves. Then JC Fultz from the Illinois Fire Marshal's Office talks about grilling safety and more this holiday season. We will then have more outdoor infor...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 6-29-2024 show, we have The Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report calling in, Then Doug Ide from Inland Guide Service in Wisconsin who specializes in Delevan and Geneva and all the species in them. After Doug we will hear from Violetta Talley, a great female angler who fishes local and regional tournaments, does seminars and more. But what has me excited i...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors, we have The Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan report calling in, Then Brian Roell the large carnivore specialist for the state of Michigan will come on and talk about the health of the gray wolf in Michigan and what is true about them and what has become miss reported about them. Then with all the heat that we have been going through, Allan Gray, a tournamen...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors show, we have The Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report calling in, Then Dan Koniewicz who with his partner Ken Miller fished the Illinois Muskie Tournament Trail on the Chain O Lakes last weekend and came in first place. Then Ed Eisch the Assistant Chief of Fisheries for the State of Michigan will tell us how they had to euthanize 30,000 Atlantic Salmon f...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors, we have Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report, Then Tim Mondl from the Cook County Forest Preserves will tell us all the cool programs for ages 5 to 105 to come out and have fun. Then Frank Sladek from the Urban Fisheries program with the Illinois DNR will be at Guaranteed Rate Field before the Sox game on Sunday June 9th from 9 to noon with all kinds of...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 6-1-2024 show, we have Capt. Tony with a Lake Michigan Report, Brooke VanHandel the Assistant Deer and Elk Specialist for Wisconsin DNR. Then Violet Talley, a very very good angler and doing one heck of a job on the bass tournament scene will come on to talk about her latest tournament at Blarneys Bassmaster on the Chain O Lake in Illinois and how to change...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 5-25-2024 show, we have The Capt. Tony with Lake Michigan Report, Troy Showerman Project Manager for the Forest Preserve of Cook County and his 10 million dollar project with funds from the State of Illinois to improve so much in the Palos Forest Preserve areas. Then Ty Nielsen and Zack Widelski from Wheaton North High school won the IHSA Bass Fishing Champ...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 5-18-2024 show we are at our live remote on Braidwood Lake for the Fish for A Cure fishing tournament. We have Capt. Tony's Lake Michigan Report, then Logan Kap from Constellation will be there for the Cystic Fibrosis Charity, then Brett Nauman from Constellation who has worked on this event for many years will bring us up to date. We are trying to get over...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 5-11-2024 show, we have The Capt. Tony Lake Michigan Report, then Tim Darrey from the Coast Guard Aux about safe boating week and a whole lot more and how you can get involved with them, and rounding out our Mother’s Day Show Eileen Rice who I like to call “mom to the great outdoors” talking about her fishing program at east Prairie School in Skokie. We wil...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 5-4-2024 show, we have the two winners from the IHSA Fishing Sectionals at Busse Lake, Seth Nebbler and Kasmir Andruchevich. Then Tim Mondl from the Forest Preserve District of Cook County about all the cool things going on this month. Then Brett Naumann from Constellation will be on to talk about a charity fishing tournament called Constellation Fish for a...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 4-27-2024 show, we have Joe Kieserrwho owns Muskie Mob guide service who does guiding on the Chain O Lakes, Lake Geneva, and Green Bay. Then Capt. Tony of Diamond Ghost Charters has his boat in the water and he is spanking the salmon on Lake Michigan so wel will hear from him today. We will then have more outdoor information and Aiden’s fishing report in th...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 4-20-2024 show, we have Jim Chelsvig who took his 13 year old grandson turkey hunting for the first time and we'll talk with him about how that went. Then Jason Johns of Boneyard Outfitters and Guide service in southern Illinois around Rend Lake who has been sending me pictures of turkeys, crappie, cats, bass, and morels . I have to talk to him before I jum...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 4-13-2024 show, we have Mike Lyons from SCI to talk about Safari Club International which really is a local conservation, scientific wildlife management, kids’ programs and supports the rights of hunters and fishermen. They are having their 52 Annual Banquet in Addison with lots of raffles, and outdoor stuff to win while supporting conservation, kid program...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 4-6-2024 show, we are covering the opening of the inland trout season in Illinois especially the Cook County Forest Preserve with Steve Silic the fisheries biologist. Then Tim Mondl will be on for the monthly programs and activities you can do in the Cook County Forest Preserves in April. We will then have more outdoor information and Aiden’s fishing report...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors show, we have our championship program with the winners of the Bassmaster Classic Justin Hammer and the winner of the REDCREST Tournament Dustin Connell for Major League Fishing. Both of these champions are great anglers and sportsmen, but what really makes these guys special is, they are just regular guys, and you will hear that in their voice. We will the...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors show, we have Jackson Gillespie from Daiwa who came on to talk about and let me try out the new bass fishing rod they released at the REDCREST tournament and boy is it sweet. The Doctor Mark Hroncich, one of the staff doctors of Chauncey’s Great Outdoors was out on the Muskegon River with a few friends and hammering the steelhead!! You can see the pictures...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors show, we are at the Red Crest Tournament, which is the Championship Tournament for MLF being held in Birmingham Alabama on Lay Lake, with a huge outdoor expo being held at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Center today and tomorrow. If you want to get hooked and watch today and the final round or bass fishing legends competing against each other you can w...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors show, we have Dave McCoy who is an angler in a very interesting tournament that’s called Head 2 Head where you compete against 9 other teams over numerous lakes and the tv / internet video coverage is great. Then the latest Elite angler at only 19 from Carbondale Illinois won his first Elite tournament and his name young anglers will be yell I want to be li...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors, we have Tim Mondl from the Forest Preserve District of Cook County to talk about all the programs for March going on for kids from 5 to 105 years young!!. So come out to a few of these, I’m sure you'll like it. Then Matt Stephan , an excellent bass angler who grew up on the northside of Chicago by Super Dawg, will be fishing his first Red Crest Tournament...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors show, we have Bob Jones who I met at the All Canada Show who with the support of his wife he did something we all dream about, but would never jump off the cliff to do. He purchased a Canadian Lodge called Stormer Lake Lodge and is living out his dream to leave the big city and move to northern Ontario and make other peoples dreams come true on their trip t...

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 2-17-2024 we are at the Tinley Park Fishing Travel and Outdoor Expo, and I hope you come out with the kids and your fishing buddies and have some fun with us. But on today's show we have Matt Gunkel from So Ill Sportfishing, he is a guide in southern Illinois who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and after graduating he wanted to get more people on big fish in...