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
Do You Know That Some Folks That Fish the Mack Days Tournaments on Flathead Lake Can Make 20K, 30K or Maybe More?! Listen here to Learn How to Become One of Them!
Oh, the Montana Outdoor Podcast does not disappoint! This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, your host, Downrigger Dale talks to Mike Benson and Scott Bombard about Falls Mack Days go…
Have Found That Bull of a Lifetime Yet? Have You Made the Perfect Plan to Find Him? No? Then This Podcast is for You!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger Dale talks with hunting expert and guide Tayler Michels. Rigger covered a TON of great topics with Tayler that will, without a doubt…
Are You Bear Aware? Bears are Getting Ready for Hibernation Right Now! Are You Ready!!
Are You Bear Aware? Bears are Getting Ready for Hibernation Right Now! Be Ready!! What Should You do if You Surprise a Bear? What Should You do if You Are in a Physical Confrontation wi…
Is the Archery Elk Season Like a Singles Bar Scene!? This Week’s Guest on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Thinks so and He Does Have Some Real Good Reasons Why!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Host Downrigger Dale interviews archery hunting guide and elk hunting expert Shawn Plakke. Shawn explains how hunting the elk rut can be incred…
Big Lake – Big Fish! The Montana Outdoor Podcast Heads to Flathead Lake in Search of Knowledge About Finding & Catching Huge Lake Trout and Lake Whitefish!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast Downrigger Dale and Deadeye Denny, aka, the Director of the Montana Outdoor Radio Show, headed to Flathead Lake in Northwest Montana! They met u…
Is Your Dog in Shape and Ready for the Hunting Season? Need Tips for Training, Nutrition or Anything Else to Get Your Pup Ready? The Dog Man has Answers for You!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger Dale talked to Jeff “The Dog Man” Smith and got some great tips for you and your hunting dog. Jeff has 40 VERY successful years of t…
Have You Always Wanted to Know How to Consistently Catch King Salmon on Fort Peck Reservoir? Listen to This Week’s Podcast! Bill The Salmon Slayer Will Tell You How!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger and The Captain recorded the podcast live on Bill the Salmon Slayer Zahradka’s boat! Finally, the boys were able to not only have Bi…
Water Levels are Dropping on Flathead Lake! What is the Cause? Is Someone to Blame? These and Many More Questions Get Answered!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast, Downrigger Dale sits down for a frank discussion with Brian Lipscomb the CEO of Energy Keepers, the company that owns the dam on Flathead Lake.…
How and When Did the Chinook or “King” Salmon Get into Fort Peck Reservoir? How many get stocked in there? How Big do They Get? Just How Good of a Salmon Season Will it be?
Those and many more questions about the hardest fighting fish in Montana get answered in this week’s Montana Outdoor Podcast! Be sure and listen to Downrigger Dale and the Captain ask F…
The Kokanee Are Back in Holter! Where Have They Been? What’s the Deal with the Trout, Walleye and Perch? Those Questions and Others Get Answered!
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…
Behind the Scenes of Montana’s Legendary Governor’s Cup Walleye Tournament!
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…
Having All the Right Fishing Electronics is One Thing. Knowing How to Use Them to Catch More Fish is Another! We Have Just the Guy to Teach you all about it!
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 …
What’s Going on With the Fish in Montana's Canyon Ferry Reservoir?!
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 ge…
It's Rodeo Time on This Podcast! Hear About Montana's Longest Running Rodeo!
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 thoug…
The Outdoor Newsman Makes News on This Podcast!
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 writ…
Montana’s Tackle Manufacturer Dick Zimmer. Does He Control Fish with His Mind or Are the Lures He Makes Just Irresistible?
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 fi…
WHAT!!!? Bears are Moving in on Homeless Camps in Some Montana Cities!
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 ab…
Big Bucks with Big Fish For the Big Winners! How Did They Do It?
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 …
Montana’s Outdoors Has a Secret Admirer! Wow! They Have Been Giving Some Awesome Presents! Do You Know Who it is?
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 w…
Are You Fishing Your Memories? What Does That Mean? Listen, You Will be Glad You Did!
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…