Chauncey's Great Outdoors

On today’s show 11-11-2023 we have Phil Gutman with a report from the Illinois Muskie Tournament Trail Championship. Then Bruce Caruso from Perch America will talk about walleye stocking they are doing at Wolf Lake. Then Conservation Officer Capt. Mark Folden of the southern zone in Illinois will talk about our upcoming deer season. Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show we have Tim Mondl from the Forest Preserve District of Cook County to tell us about all the fun programs for people from 5 years old to 125 years old, going on this month in the Forest Preserve Dist. of Cook County. We then take a trip with Jason Johns of Boneyard fishing on Rend Lake and hear about the numerous full limits of 25 crappie each, with ten being over 10 inches and how this is going to continue for a long time. The weather can be 40 degrees warmer there, than in northern Illinois for the winter. Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show we have Troy Showerman the Resource Project Manager who I met at the ribbon cutting event at Powderhorn Lake that connects Powderhorn Lake, a marsh and Wolf Lake as it was 100 years ago. After Troy, Wayne Libera and I will talk about taking fall color trips from a boat down many waterways in Illinois and Michigan. Then Steve Ettenger the Executive Director from the Illinois Conservation Foundation to talk about the Directors Hunt on November 27 and 28 at the Jim Edgar Panther Creek SFWA just west of Springfield, Illinois. This an all-inclusive hunt for pheasants, and chukers along with food and lodging. So don’t wait, sign up, I’m going, let’s all have fun. Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show 10-21-2023, we have Jim Kopjo the Crappie Professor telling us about a small but lots of stuff fishing swap meet at the VFW hall 8844 S. Ogden Ave. in Brookfield, Illinois next week from 8 to 12. All money raised goes to programs for our vets in hospital and at home. Then Doug Ide from Guide Ide’s Fishing Guide Service in the Lake Geneva and Delavan area and many other lakes. Will talk about how the fish are bulking up and, were having fun catching them. Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today's show we have Capt. Tony with his last report on lake Michigan for the year. The boat is going for a long winter's nap till April for coho. Then Tim Mondal will report on some cool programs in the Forest Preserves District of Cook County thru the month and next Saturday is opening day of Inland Trout Season in Illinois on 59 lakes. Steve Silic the Head of Fisheries for the Cook County Forest Preserves (CCFPD) will be giving us the report on what lakes are stocked in the CCFPD with thousands of rainbow trout.

Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show we have Capt. Tony with a Lake Trout report on Lake Michigan. Then Matt Gunkel of So Il Sportfishing will talk about how we can enjoy open water fishing in Southern Illinois when our lakes up north are frozen and catch big stripers and muskie. Then a very good friend of the show Mike Norris, a fishing guide, educator and a smallmouth fishing guide you won’t believe on Big Green Lake in Wisconsin will come on and get you all excited to go out and get a few of these special fish. Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show we have Capt. Tony with a Lake Trout report on Lake Michigan. Then Debra Sillic a naturalist from the Little Red School House Nature Center, where this weekend they are having the famous Art Fair and the nature center is open for the kids to have fun in also. Since Oct 1st is the opening of archery deer season in Illinois and other states, Mike Reynolds is coming on to talk about the first days of preparation for opening day. l

then will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show we have Capt. Tony with a salmon report on Lake Michigan and a report on his trip with Tom Palmisano, Kevin Irons and me this week. Then at the beginning of the week we were at Braidwood Lake with Brett Nauman of Constellation and Seth Love the fisheries biologist of the IDNR for the area. We were putting in 50 fish cribs to bring the total up to 1450 cribs that Constellation has bought. Last, but not least, Chris Taurisano of T Bone Guide Service had one of his clients take a 50 plus inch muskie and what we should do to prepare for fall fishing.

Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show we have Capt. Tony with a salmon report on Lake Michigan and a report on his trip with me this week. Then I went into the archives as I said and found the interview I did with Doctor Howard Tanner, the father of all salmon fishing in the great lakes. He turned a 100 last week and I wanted to let you hear the voice of a man who opened the outdoors for so many. Then Phil Guttman, a good friend of the show from the Fox River Valley Muskie group will talk about the Illinois Muskie Tournament Trail event on the Illinois Chain of Lakes next weekend where you could win big money.

Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show.

On today’s show we have Capt. Tony with a salmon report on Lake Michigan. Then Gus Mantey of SUGs Fishing Guide.com who is a young guide in the Eagle River Wisconsin and other lakes will be coming on to talk about fall fishing in Northern Wisconsin, then Wade Louis a wildlife biologist from the Illinois DNR who is responsible for monitoring the upland birds, including doves which is what he will talk about. Then we will have the Aiden fishing report and more for you in the last segment of the show