9 episodes

Every week, Outdoor News Radio explores timely outdoors topics emerging from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest, and around the country. For one hour, host Rob Drieslein, managing editor and president of Outdoor News, Inc., interviews a slate of natural resource experts, conservation advocates, and top outdoors writers. Along with regular co-host Tim Lesmeister, expect raucous and sometimes irreverent banter about hunting and fishing, shooting sports, wild game cooking, and nature. Among the program’s many guests, get news updates from editors Tim Spielman, Dean Bortz, and Brian Peterson. Hear fishing tips from Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame legendary angler Terry Tuma, hunting tactics from Tony Peterson, and nongame notes and stories from “Birdchick” Sharon Stiteler and Backyard and Beyond columnist Stan Tekiela.

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    • 4.3 • 40 Ratings

Every week, Outdoor News Radio explores timely outdoors topics emerging from Minnesota, the Upper Midwest, and around the country. For one hour, host Rob Drieslein, managing editor and president of Outdoor News, Inc., interviews a slate of natural resource experts, conservation advocates, and top outdoors writers. Along with regular co-host Tim Lesmeister, expect raucous and sometimes irreverent banter about hunting and fishing, shooting sports, wild game cooking, and nature. Among the program’s many guests, get news updates from editors Tim Spielman, Dean Bortz, and Brian Peterson. Hear fishing tips from Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame legendary angler Terry Tuma, hunting tactics from Tony Peterson, and nongame notes and stories from “Birdchick” Sharon Stiteler and Backyard and Beyond columnist Stan Tekiela.

    Episode 480 – A catch-and-release walleye opener for Mille Lacs, Minnesota moose update, Stan Tekiela on Florida critters, and a giant hybrid Montana sheep

    Episode 480 – A catch-and-release walleye opener for Mille Lacs, Minnesota moose update, Stan Tekiela on Florida critters, and a giant hybrid Montana sheep

    Top topics on this week’s Outdoor News Radio include the Minnesota DNR’s announcement that Lake Mille Lacs will start with a catch-and-release walleye regulation. Managing Editor and host Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman break that down as well as a potential funding mechanism for an Asian carp barrier on the Mississippi River. Then Seth Goreham, wildlife research manager, from the Minnesota DNR jumps into the show to discuss the status of the state’s moose population. Stan Tekiela spends a segment recounting his recent trip to Florida where he saw painted buntings and giant iguanas. Tim Lesmeister helps wrap up the broadcast with his thoughts on legislation that would transfer state lands to tribal bands in Minnesota. They also chat about a bizarre story involving giant hybrid sheep on a Montana game farm.

    • 54 min
    Episode 479 – State-tribal land transfer legislation, an award for a DU employee, Stan Tekiela on winter in Yellowstone, and dogs-vs.-hounds

    Episode 479 – State-tribal land transfer legislation, an award for a DU employee, Stan Tekiela on winter in Yellowstone, and dogs-vs.-hounds

    New legislation at the Minnesota State Capitol would transfer large swaths of state public lands to the Red Lake and White Earth bands. Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman break it down. Then Jon Schneider from Minnesota Ducks Unlimited checks in to talk about DU projects in the state and a recent award that DU National bestowed upon him. Stan Tekiela returns for the second straight week to share highlights of his recent winter photography trip to Yellowstone National Park. Drieslein wraps up the program by sharing an anecdote via the United Kingdom with Tim Lesmeister, who lived in the U.K. for a year. When is a hound a dog across the pond? Or isn’t it?

    • 54 min
    Episode 478 – Minnesota DNR unveils its new state record fish program, migration update with Stan Tekiela and lake sturgeon in court

    Episode 478 – Minnesota DNR unveils its new state record fish program, migration update with Stan Tekiela and lake sturgeon in court

    The Minnesota DNR unveiled its new state records fish program last week, and this week’s Outdoor News Radio devotes ample time to breaking it down. Specifically, what does it mean for historic records like Leroy Chiovitte’s big walleye that has been arguably Minnesota’s most legendary fish since 1979? Mandy Erickson from the DNR explains the program to host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein, then he and Tim Lesmeister discuss its ramifications for old records. In between, Backyard and Beyond columnist Stan Tekiela talks about how quickly migration is unfolding across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. Tim Spielman also joins Rob to chat about new legislation at the State Capitol including eliminating the shotgun zone and a dispute over lake sturgeon.

    • 53 min
    Episode 477 – Get-out-the-lead bills, fishing Clear Lake, Iowa, March trout fishing, sportshow season, and resurgent lever-action rifles

    Episode 477 – Get-out-the-lead bills, fishing Clear Lake, Iowa, March trout fishing, sportshow season, and resurgent lever-action rifles

    This week’s Outdoor News Radio kicks off with host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman analyzing bills in the state House and Senate that would ban a wide array of lead fishing tackle and ammunition. Then Deer and Turkey Classic Show Promotor Eric Meyer drops in to talk about next weekend’s annual show, March 8-10. Kevan Paul from Clear Lake, Iowa, joins the program to talk up fishing opportunities on the versatile lake just south of the Minnesota border (where the walleye season doesn’t close!). Tony Peterson visits for the second week in a row, this week to talk about trout fishing during this balmy March and outlook for 2024 spring turkey hunting. Wrapping up the show with Rob, Tim Lesmeister talks about the number of lever-action rifles at this year’s Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show as well as newsie topics like the recent NRA ruling and the latest batch of Asian carp caught on the Mississippi River downstream from Winona.

    • 54 min
    Episode 476 – Snow goose migration update, late-season rabbit and squirrel tactics, and a Kansas crappie controversy

    Episode 476 – Snow goose migration update, late-season rabbit and squirrel tactics, and a Kansas crappie controversy

    This week’s Outdoor News Radio contains an update on the status of the snow goose migration up the central part of the continent. (The season opened in Minnesota last weekend). Joining Managing Editor and host Rob Drieslein, Minnesota Editor Tim Spielman also updates listeners on Lake of the Woods fisheries master planning. They also reminder listeners of the Person of the Year nomination process and annual Outdoor News Wood Duck Challenge. Then Tony Peterson drops in to talk tactics for the final week of squirrel and rabbit hunting in Minnesota (the season ends Feb. 29.) Wrapping up his last week in New Zealand, Tim Lesmeister shares a story of fishing (with spinning gear) for brown and rainbow trout in small Kiwi lakes. He and Drieslein also discuss the continuing and unnecessary fervor over feral pigs in North Country and the latest fishing scandal, this one involving a former state record white crappie in Kansas.

    • 54 min
    Episode 475 – Minnesota Legislative session preview, 75 years of A Sand County Almanac, Mille Lacs 2024 walleye quota, and Florida crack(!) bears

    Episode 475 – Minnesota Legislative session preview, 75 years of A Sand County Almanac, Mille Lacs 2024 walleye quota, and Florida crack(!) bears

    A continued mild February has host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein plus Editor Tim Spielman discussing whether any black bears left their dens early this month. Also, what are some of the top policy items that could come up this legislative session (hint, time to eliminate the shotgun zone.) Then Buddy Huffaker, executive director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wis., drops into talk about the 75th anniversary of “A Sand County Almanac” and the many events the Foundation will hold in March and throughout 2024 to celebrate the anniversary. Tim Lesmeister checks in again from New Zealand to talk about invasive white-tailed deer in Kiwi Kountry, plus they discuss the latest Mille Lacs walleye quota for 2024, sportshow season, and whether “crack bears” are a legitimate threat in Florida.

    • 54 min

Customer Reviews

4.3 out of 5
40 Ratings

40 Ratings

woody2119 ,

Really enjoy the show.

No hardball questions, and never play devils advocate, but Rob does a good job.

WolfLOVER<3 ,

I love this show

Love listening to the show, Ron is an excellent interviewer and covers interesting topics.

PikeHunt79 ,

Less Climate Change talk

Good content but I have to fast forward through the climate change talk.

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