Tennessee WildCast

Join a return visit to Tennessee WildCast from Darrell (Bones) Bernd. Among many topics, Bones will discuss the excellent fish and fishing opportunities on our smaller waters (rivers and creeks) and give you a website location where you can get for free the single best book ever written about the fish (from minnows to muskies) that inhabit Tennessee. He will also give us a few fish Identification tips on some of the fish you are most likely to catch wading a stream.

You may be a parent who doesn’t know much about hunting or fishing, but you want  your kids to have the opportunity to see if the outdoors is for them. Or, you may be a female who hasn’t had the right opportunity to cast a fishing rod or shoot a rifle or shotgun. Could be you are one of our wounded soldiers who want to continue being active in the outdoors, or start learning about the sportsman’s life. Regardless of what category you may fall under, or others we aren’t thinking about here, join Donald Hosse on this week’s Tennessee WidCast and learn from an outreach pro how you, or someone you care about, might change can be given the opportunity to get outside with others who love the outdoors and want to share their knowledge and good fortune.

Don Crawford has helped get more than 40,000 youngsters across the state get interested in shooting archery in our schools, but  as you might expect he is also an archery buff himself and will give all of you a few hunting and safety tips as we approach the 2016 archery-only deer season. Don will also discuss the National Archery In The Schools Program that kids across Tennessee are loving. Join us and then maybe get your school or you kids joined introduced to NASP and perhaps a hobby for life.

Tennessee WildCast Hosts Doug Markham and Jason Harmon go solo together in this episode of TWRA's weekly podcast. Every now and again they forgo a guest and get listeners and viewers caught up on the current events of hunting and fishing. This week they pay special attention to changes in upcoming hunt seasons and also explain the various Social Media ways to interact with the agency. Hope you enjoy the show. Someone is going to win a TN WildCast T-Shirt!

Join Darrell (Bones) Bernd as he talks about what a creel clerk  does for TWRA. It's a great job and one very important to anglers. Why should you talk to a creel clerk? Watch this episode and find out, plus learn a little bit about how to tell one fish from another.

It’s great to get your Executive Director on air from time to time so that he can update everyone on the latest. That is exactly what Director Ed Carter does in this episode of Tennessee WildCast. From the budge that sportsmen help us create, to the latest news on Chronic Wasting Disease, great news about two properties benefitting sportsmen,  and a new licensing system that hunters, anglers, and boaters will soon be using.  You will enjoy our director. He is always willing to share agency news.

There is a reason that Dekalb County Wildlife Officer Joe Fortner was chose as this year’s best TWRA officer. Joe spends and easy half-hour with us discussing the Caney Fork River, Center Hill Lake, the hunting in this rural county, and even gives us a good tip or two about what to expect when you visit a TWRA shooting Range. Before he became a county officer, Joe worked as the range manager at Stones River Shooting Range in Middle Tennessee. You will enjoy Joe and learn much from the son of Tony Fortner, the long-time officer of Williamson County.

Can you believe almost 700,000 Tennesseans (mostly youngsters) have taken and passed Hunter Education since the program began in the mid-1980s? We are looking to graduate many more in the years ahead and in this edition of Tennessee WildCast you will learn how to enroll in hunter education and also get some excellent safety tips.

Black bears once occupied all of Tennessee and while they are not as widespread as they once were, they are growing in numbers and are always an enjoyable topic of discussion. How much do black bears weigh? What do they like to eat—and no it's not just meat. Where are bears mostly found in Tennessee? Join us for this week’s Tennessee WildCast when Statewide Bear Coordinator Dan Gibbs shares a bunch of his black bear knowledge.

Region 2 Manager  Tim Cleveland makes you want to get outside! Join Tim in a lively discussion about smallmouth fishing, small rivers and creeks, access to these waters, waterfowl crop updates on local wildlife management areas,  and much more. Then get your gear and go outdoors!