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Managing Editor Rob Drieslein kicks off this week’s show with hunting guide and outdoors communicator Durrell Smith from Atlanta, Ga. They discuss Smith’s venture, the Minority Outdoor Alliance, and the organization’s events that it holds across the country. Then Jarrid Houston from Houston’s Guide Service out of the Twin Ports of Duluth and Superior, offers insights into ice-fishing on Lake Superior this winter and across the border-country region. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein wrap up the show with chatter on a host of topics including Southern bass fishing for those desperately seeking open water, a recent report from the National Deer Association, a shark attack in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives that affects mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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Kicking off this week’s show is Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman who recap the 2026 Minnesota DNR Roundtable held on Friday, Jan. 9 in Brooklyn Center. They break down one of the biggest topics to emerge from the event: the DNR’s formal proposal for a 4-fish statewide walleye limit. Then Glen Schmitt, the man behind the Outdoor News fishing report, provides insight into how the ice-fishing season has gone so far, and he offers his opinion on rapidly evolving forward-facing sonar. Tim Lesmeister helps Drieslein wrap up the show with chatter on a host of topics including the latest CWD totals, the backlog of firearms safety training classes, wake boats, and a $3.2 million price tag for a single bluefin tuna in Japan.

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Top topics on this week’s Outdoor News Radio broadcast include a Minnesota deer season recap with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman. The pair also discuss Spielman’s recent column on party hunting. Then Scott Sparlin joins the show to share efforts to create a Minnesota River Coordinating Commission focused on improving the water quality of the state’s namesake river. Shooting writer Ron Spomer then joins for a SHOT Show preview and to discuss affordable bucket list opportunities for the traveling hunter. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein wrap up the show with the latest national mountain lion stories, then Lesmeister offers his take on Gov. Tim Walz announcing that he won’t be running for a third term.

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Top topics on this first Outdoor News Radio broadcast of the new year include ice-fishing tips from Joel Nelson from onX Fish. Then Mark Holsten from MN-Fish talks about the nonprofit’s priorities for the new year and an outlook for the 2026 legislative session. Dan Small previews the upcoming All-Canada Shows in the region. Then Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Tim Lesmeister devote a segment to talking music and their favorite R-n-R vocalists.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a review of 2025’s top outdoors stories with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman. Then Sharon “Birdchick” Stiteler visits for the second week in row with most of the chatter focusing on winter owl viewing. Mark Johnson, the long-time and now retiring director of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, talks with Drieslein about his years in conservation work and the great accomplishments of the dedicated sales tax. Chance Adams, the board chair of Minnesota Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, then visits to preview the big BHA North Country Icebreaker event on Pelican Lake, Jan. 23-24.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a Minnesota deer season recap with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman. Then Sharon Stiteler, the Birdchick, joins the program to talk about the recent common eider sighting in Minnesota, goshawks, and preview the Christmas Bird Count. North-central Minnesota fishing guide Tony Roach runs down the latest on ice conditions and the hot bite across the hard-water belt. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein talk about Missouri’s lower nonresident wild turkey limit, a possible state parks “endorsement,” and remember Wisconsin’s George Meyer.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a deer season CWD recap plus details on an important new panfish study on Lake Reno in west-central Minnesota with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman. Then outdoors writer and photographer Mark Morrison visits to offer some deer hunting tips for the last two weeks of archery season. Ryan Callaghan completes his interview with Drieslein and outlines his vision for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers in 2026 and beyond. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein wrap up the show with chatter on a cougar in Duluth and some of their favorite classic outdoors writers to read during winter’s darkest days.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a deer season harvest recap with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman covering the latest data from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Then foraging expert Robin Greenfield joins the show to talk about his year-long plan to consume only calories that he forages from the wild landscape. New Backcountry Hunters and Anglers CEO Ryan Callaghan then joins Drieslein for the first of a two-part interview about his vision for conservation in America. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein wrap up the show with chatter on Mille Lacs pike, chronic wasting disease, flying cats in North Carolina, and the growing population of European bears.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a Minnesota deer season harvest recap (it’s up!) with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman. Then Matt Johnson calls in with an ice fishing season preview, plus chatter about the Dec. 5-7 St. Paul Ice Fishing Show. Stan Tekiela and Drieslein talk about the tail end of fall migration, which means tundra (whistling swans) are blowing through the region right now. Tim Lesmeister and Drieslein then talk about the three-walleye winter limit on Lake Mille Lacs and the 10-bag perch limit there. They also discuss the Trump administration’s announcement to dramatically increase fees for non-U.S. citizens in America’s national parks.

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Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include a deer season and license sales recap with Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman. Then Patrick Durkin from Wisconsin Outdoor News joins the program to preview the firearms deer hunting season and other news from the Badger State. Backyard and Beyond columnist Stan Tekiela then jumps into the show to discuss wild turkeys as Thanksgiving approaches, plus his shouts on black-morph gray squirrels. Tim Lesmeister helps wrap up the program with Drieslein on topics like new fishing technology rules from the Minnesota DNR, feeding deer in wolf country, and barred-vs.-spotted owls.

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