On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors show, we will have Tony Boshold, an ice fishermen extraordinaire and part of Chauncey’s Great Outdoors Pro Staff tell us about early ice fishing and what we need. Then Mark Koubal, also part of Chauncey’s Great Outdoors Pro Staff will talk about winter time perch fishing in Lake Michigan on the Chicago Lakefront. We will then have the Aiden fishing report and more ..read more

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On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 11-30-2024 show, We will have an interview I did with a young 13 year old, almost 14 as he said, Michael Feinburg who earlier this year went out with his Dad and Ripple Guide Service fly fishing for chinook salmon. He was nervous but did a great job. Then Pete Meier who participated in a deer hunt for the disabled at Rend, that included the Army Corp of Engineers and the outdoor club from the local high school in Sesser that just did a great job. We will round up the show with Sgt Seth Thornley, an Illinois DNR CPO to talk about using drones, e-bikes an ..read more

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 11-23-2024 show, On today's show we will have Chris Anchor the Wildlife Biologist from the Cook County Forest Preserves with a story about an Osprey that was banded a year ago and took a fly about and was found in Columbia South America. Then Jeff Pretzl the Deer Program Manager for the state of Wisconsin with some information about the deer herd there, with it being the opening weekend of firearm deer season. We will then have the Aiden fishing report and more ..read more

On today's show Wayne Libera from Water Werks Marine is going to call in about their huge Blowout Sale that ends today 11-16 were you can save from 25 to 90% off except for electronics. Then Bruce Caruso of Perch America is having their walleye stocking day at Wolf Lake right on the Illinois Indiana border around midday. Then Mike Reynolds, my hunting mentor will talk about what we need to do to fool a whitetail deer to get that buck of a lifetime. We will then have the Aiden fishing report and more ..read more

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 11-9-2024 show, On todays show were going to have Sam Klimas the Waterfowl Project Manager from the Illinois DNR who just got off the airplane doing their aerial survey of ducks and geese. Then Steve Ettinger the Executive Director of the Illinois Conservation Foundation will talk about the Directors Pheasant hunt near Springfield, Illinois on Dec 2 and 3. lodging, food, stay in a beautiful Springfield hotel, birds cleaned, and if you need a free guide and dog just tell them when you sign up at ILconservation.org. PS don’t forget to tip the dog, they do ..read more

On this week’s Chauncey’s Great Outdoors 11/2/2024 show, we should be getting a cal from Duane Landmeier a member of the Illinois Muskie Tournament Trail and state champion of the event. Then Tim Mondl from the Forest Preserve District of Cook County with an activity report for November. It’s dry all over so Jeff Vasher from the Michigan DNR will talk about the high fire conditions throughout the Midwest and Michigan. Then the Aiden fishing report and more all for you ..read more

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors: we should be getting a call from Danny Cossich, from the Oswegoland Fishing Fools, a great fishing club for everyone. Then we were out placing fish cribs with Constellation, Clean Energy, Brett Nauman, Jeff Jenkins and Seth Love from the Illinois DNR at Braidwood Lake. Then Ryan Witacare, winner of the Big Lake Bass Tournament on Lake Michigan last weekend and a fantastic smallmouth fishing guide on Lake Michigan, will tell us how he did it! he can be reached at Chicagobassfishing.com We will then have the Aiden fishing report and more ..read more

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors 10-19-2024 show, I'm sure we're going to get a call from Jason Uldrych the coach for the Carl Sandburg fishing team and their fundraiser for the team fishing tournament next weekend. Then Wayne Libera from Water Werks Marine will tell us how to enjoy a color tour from your boat and what rivers and lakes are the best to see the colors. Followed by Joe Cochrane award winning taxidermist from Nature's Image Taxidermy in Lombard, Illinois and what you should do to take care of pheasant , duck or small mammal you want preserved. We will then have the Aiden f ..read more

On this week’s Chauncey's Great Outdoors: we have a special call coming in from Brian Souza of Bizz Baits that great bass fishing bait company that moved to North Carolina from Illinois and was moved by the lost of damage to property and lives in western Carolina after hurricane HELENE and wanted to help these people and with the help of his employees, fisherman and anyone else that wants to help just listen to the interview and open your hearts and wallets. Then Steve Welch, a legendary crappie guide on Lake Shelbyville will tell us about the slabber crappies he is getting for the next month ..read more