Montana Outdoor Podcast
A weekly podcast covering the topics and people that make Montana’s Outdoors like no other place in the world.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
When the Winds of Fort Peck Get Angry!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks to angler Audie Stein about is frightening brush with death in one of the fiercest windstorms Fort Peck Montana …
Want to Catch One of the Hardest Fighting Fish in Montana?
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale had a great conversation with Ross Tate who is also known by anglers on Flathead Lake as the Whitefish Whisperer. Clic…
Breaking Through the Confusion of Elk Shoulder Seasons
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale has another great conversation with FWP, Game Management Bureau Chief, Brian Wakeling, this time about Montana's Elk S…
Finally,Tiber Reservoir Gives up Some of its Mysterious Big Fish Secrets!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale has a fascinating discussion with Katie Vivian, FWP Region 4 Fisheries Manager. Katie is very intelligent, especially …
Montana’s Wildlife Whisperers: Inside the U of M's Wildlife Biology Program
This week on the Montana Outdoor podcast your host Downrigger Dale has an amazing conversation with two of the preeminent wildlife biology researchers in the Country! They are located r…
About The Real Yellowstone Documentary, Part Two
In this week's Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale continues his no holds barred discussion with Tom Opre the Director of the amazing new documentary film called The Real …
The Real Yellowstone, Tom Opre’s Amazing New Film!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale has a fascinating conversation with award winning documentary director Tom Opre. Tom has created amazing films like Ki…
One Thing is For Sure About Our Guest This Week, He is Semper Paratus!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks about something that has been patrolling much of Montana's Waterways for many years but many of you may not even…
Hot Topics, Big Fish & What’s Next for Montana’s Outdoors
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale takes over the podcast studios and gets us all caught up on the latest outdoor news, Statewide fishing reports and pee…
Meet the Trap Collectors!
Yes, you read the title of the is Podcast correctly and yes, we meant to say that! All we should say about this one is YOU HAVE GOT TO LISTEN THIS PODCAST. As Rigger put it, "when one …
Keeping Our State Parks on a Solid Foundation!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with the Executive Director of the Montana State Parks Foundation, Megan Buecking. No doubt many of you may be a…
The Present & Future of Fresno and Nelson Reservoirs. Plus a Paddlefish Update!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Fisheries Biologist, Cody Nagel. Rigger and many of you that sent him emai…
Learn About the Fresno Dam Repair Progress! How Long Will There Be Low Water in Fresno Reservoir? Will Nelson Reservoir be Affected?
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with Steve Darlinton Project Manager for the Bureau of Reclamation. Rigger and Steve have a fascinating discussi…
Are You or The Lady(s) That You Know an Outdoors Woman? Learn All About Becoming an Outdoors Woman!
There was once a law many years ago in Montana that basically said women were not allowed to fish alone! Well, move over guys because women in Montana are becoming Outdoors Women. This …
Montana’s New Mule Deer Management Plan - Can We Solve Montana’s Mule Deer Issues?
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale has a very interesting discussion with Brian Wakeling, Game Management Bureau Chief for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Par…
Success, Failure and Above All Perseverance! Learn About the Amazing Milk River Project!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale has an incredible discussion with Jennifer Patrick, Project Manager of The Milk River Joint Board of Control for the M…
Organizing Your Boat and Tackle. Advice From Three of the Top Fishing Pros!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks to the Captain of the Montana Outdoor Radio Show, one of Fort Peck’s top fishing guides, Don Wilkins and none ot…
The Walleye Egg Collection Just Wrapped Up! Will There Be Enough To Stock Montana?
This week you host Downrigger Dale talks with Fort Peck Fisheries Biologist Heath Headley and Fort Peck Hatchery Manager Wade Geraets about how the annual Walleye egg collection effort …
How to Find and Catch HUGE Kokanee Salmon in Holter and Hauser Reservoirs!
Do you remember about this time last year when we had Kit and Trevor Johnson here on the Montana Outdoor Podcast? Your host Downrigger Dale and his fishing buddy the Captain talked to t…
What Fish is Like a Double Bacon Cheeseburger and Why is it Having Such an Effect on Fort Peck Reservoir?
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks to outdoor reporter, writer and Hunting and Conservation Editor for Outdoor Life, Andrew McKean. Andrew wrote a …