Montana Outdoor Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger and The Captain have FWP Fisheries Biologist for Region 4, Adam Strainer back to talk all about the fish in Holter Reservoir located not far from Helena, MT. As usual Adam did not disappoint. He delivered all kinds of great information. The fellas started their discussion about a picture that Adam had recently sent to The Captai...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger and The Captain interview five VERY interesting people involved in Montana’s legendary fishing tournament, the 2023 Montana Governor’s Cup Walleye Tournament. Be sure to listen and you will get five very unique perspectives on one of the richest Walleye tournaments in the United States . Lisa Koski Co-Director of the tournament...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, fishing guide and three-time Montana Walleye Angler of the Year, Jason Mundel from Ripp’n Lipps Guide Service joins Downrigger and The Captain on the podcas t to talk about using fishing electronics to catch, not just more fish, but bigger fish! Having all the right electronics is of course something most every fisherman has or is working...

Send us Fan Mail Host Downrigger Dale was surprised at how big the top weight results were coming out of the recent Canyon Ferry Walleye Festival ( click here to view those ) . So, Downrigger decided to get ahold of FWP Fisheries Biologist for Region 4, Adam Strainer and have him come on this week’s Montana Outdoor Podcast. Boy, did they have a fascinating discussion! One of the first things Rigge...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger Dale talks to Jeri Delys of the Drummond Rodeo. Give it a listen and see if our host Downrigger Dale  can Cowboy Up! Seriously though this is a great podcast that will fill you in on the longest running rodeo in Montana! This event is so historic that the event itself was inducted into the Montana Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame. Do you...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Brett French Talks to The Captain and Downrigger about his over 30 years of reporting on Montana’s Great Outdoors. Over the years Brett has written some incredible articles for the Billings Gazette and MontanaOutdoor.com.   He talks about some of his favorite stories and the ones he felt made the biggest impact on our outdoors, both good an...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast. Downrigger Dale and The Captain had a chance to talk to Montana fishing legend Dick Zimmer, aka, The Mackman of Zimmer Tackle. Dick has been fishing Montana’s waters for 70 years! His lures and other tackle for Lake Trout, Whitefish, Kokanee Salmon and many other species of fish are known by Montana Fishermen as some of the most effective...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s edition of the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger Dale talks with Montana FWP Bear Specialist Jamie Jonkel about problem bears and how to deal with them. Jonkel talks about how Bears can cause some serious problems if they start looking for, and find, easy food sources in Western Montana neighborhoods, like garbage, bird feeders, pet food and, well, you name it. As...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Fischer and Ty Hinderager have been fishing in tournaments together for 15 years and have done pretty well competing together but they never had a tournament weekend like they did last week! These two entered the Crooked Creek Walleye Fishing Tournament on Fort Peck Lake in Montana and set a new record for the most weight ever caught in a two day Walleye Tournament in Montana...

Send us Fan Mail So, who is Montana’s secret admirer? This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Downrigger Dale decided to find out. I guess you could say he was “shocked” when he found out just who it was. As Rigger put it, “I really was shocked, pardon the pun, to find out that such a big company would do something like that! Not because they had to but just because they wanted to. Mainly  they j...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Montana Outdoor Podcast, we talk to a guy that is known for thinking outside of the box when it comes to fishing. No, he doesn’t do it to be different. He does it because it works! Neal Cote is a true fishing innovator, researcher, and teacher. Downrigger and the Captain had a fascinating discussion with Neal about all kinds of fishing techniques and ideas t...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Downrigger and The Captain sit down with fishing guide and outfitter John Perry, aka, The Mountain Man. John is one of the few Montana guides that is internationally known and is likely one of the most in demand guides in the United States. People come from all over the world to fish with John on Montana’s Blue Ribbon trout streams, Rock Cr...

Send us Fan Mail The Missouri is the longest river in the United States, flowing more than 2,500 miles from its source on the eastern slope of the Rockies near Three Forks, Montana, to its confluence with the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri . What controls all that water is a series of dams and the most important of those are located in Montana. This episode of the the Montana Outdoor Pod...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Montana Outdoor Podcast, you will learn all about Montana's Walleye fishery! Maybe we should have called this podcast "Walleye 101" or if we wanted to get a little cheeky, "Mommy Where Do Walleye Come From". But seriously this week we had Fisheries Biologist Heath Headley from FWP Region 6 in Glasgow, Montana on the show and we were...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Cowen of Mon-Dak Marine is back for this week’s Montana Outdoor Podcast, and he brought a HUGE AMOUNT of KNOWLEDGE and a MASIVE NUMBER of IDEAS and PROBLEM SOLVING KNOW HOW! This podcast is sure to help you find your way into the NEW AGE OF BOATING. If you listened to Matt on last week's podcast, you know that he is the owner of Mon-Dak Marine in Glasgow, MT. What you ma...

Send us Fan Mail This is our last installment in our series "How to Find the Right Boat For You" !  We have had a great time meeting a whole bunch of incredible experts who have given us great advice especially this last guest, Matt Cowen of Mon-Dak Marine in Glasgow, Montana. After doing this Podcast we decided to nickname Mattt The Wizard of The Waterways! Man oh man is he smart!! Matt...

Send us Fan Mail There is a small town in Central Montana that is home to an amazing business that for years has been one of THE leaders in the boating industry and no we don't mean just in Montana but in the entire United States!! In this episode of the Montana Outdoor Podcast, we continue our quest to find the knowledge you need to find the right boat for you .  We had the opportunity to sp...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we continue our series on How to Find The Right Boat For You. This time we talk to Jake Monroe and Ron Boggs at High Country Boats . Wow! Did they have great ideas! When you add up all the years of experience between these two it ads up to over 90 YEARS of experience of incredible boat knowledge! We went over ideas about how to find the right used boat and how get...

Send us Fan Mail This is a bonus Montana Outdoor Podcast. The Montana State Legislature only meets every other year for 90 days. During that time many laws can get created, updated or completely changed in the opposite way they were originally written. Since this legislative session has now passed the halfway mark we thought it would be a good idea to check in with some legislators and see if your...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Montana Outdoor Podcast, we continue our series on “How to Find the Right Boat For You”   but this time we go straight to an incredible manufacturer that almost never came to be, but fought through adversity and grew to become one of the most coveted fishing boats among fishing guides and others who love to fish in Montana! If you have never heard the story...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Montana Outdoor Podcast we take you behind the scenes of likely the most unique fishing tournament in the world! The Captain and Downrigger spent some fascinating time with Cindy Benson and Barry Hansen of Mack Days and boy did they learn a lot! They learned about a very special and rare fish to the Salish Kootenai Tribe that, thanks to the tournament and th...

Send us Fan Mail Buying a new boat is a big decision and one you want to get right. You never want to be that person who ends up saying “the two best days of my life as a boat owner was when I bought it and then when I sold it!” It does not have to be that way! In this episode we begin our series on how to find the right boat for you. Whether it is about getting a boat just for fishing or one that...

Send us Fan Mail H ave you noticed that there are less younger people that hunt and fish? It isn't your imagination it is indeed a trend that has been going on for a while now. But why is that? In this episode of the Montana Outdoor Podcast we try to answer that question by talking to a couple of younger guys about that. Do we find the REAL answer? You will have to listen to find that out. We...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered what it would be like to turn your favorite hobby into a career? Would that be a dream come true or would it turn the thing you love to do for fun into a nightmare? In this episode we will show you what that just might look like. For Scott Collinsworth, owner of Fort Peck Marina and one of the top guides in Montana it turned out to be a dream come true! But...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of The Montana Outdoor Podcast , we get into the spirit of Valentine’s Week by meeting up with Beckie and Don Wilkins, a couple that truly loves each other and Montana's Outdoors. What a fun time we had with these two. They are based out of Glasgow, MT and both drive for UPS in Northeast Montana. When you don't see them out on their routes delivering pack...