The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing, and other outdoor activities from Texas and beyond. Brought to you by Texas Fish & Game.
Episodes
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
In this second installment of the fishing mashup from the Confluence Writers Event in Venice, Louisiana, Dustin sits down with Ryan Jones from Frontier Sales and Marketing and talks personal watercraft like paddle boards and kayaks and all of the innovations that are happening in that realm. Then, later in the show, Dustin is joined by Dave Brown from Okuma for a short segment and they talk about all kinds of fishing and the different Okuma rod and reel options. Thanks for listening and please subscribe. Happy New Year!
Ryan Jones
Dave Brown
This show is sponsored by Accusharp:
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
In this episode, Dustin discusses whitetail deer mysteries, the different species of whitetail deer in Texas, and much more with Chester Moore, TF&G's Editor-in-Chief. This is a fun and spirited show with lots of educational tidbits and fascinating facts!
Sponsored by Accusharp Knife Sharpeners:
Mentioned in Show:
Vapor Trail Scents 33 Pt. Buck and Display Headlamp: www.vaportrailoutdoors.com
FishGame.com Articles of Interest:
https://fishgame.com/2018/11/whitetail-slam-in-texas/
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
In this episode, Dustin attends an outdoor writers fishing event in Venice, Louisiana and does an interview mashup with four special guests from Bubba Blade (fillet knives), Arctic Ice (ice packs), Nomad Design (freshwater and saltwater lures) and Grundens (fishing apparel and foul weather gear). This was a live "on location" podcast featuring some of the best brands in the fishing industry and the focus was on how to become a better outdoors enthusiast in the field and on the water.
Featured in this Episode:
https://www.homeruncharters.com/
http://www.nomaddesigntackle.com/
https://fishgame.com/staying-cool-on-outdoor-adventures/
This Episode Sponsored by AccuSharp
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
On this episode, Dustin sits down with Texas Fish & Game Magazine's hunting editor Lou Marullo and talk hunting strategies for whitetail deer and the two share their passions for the pursuit of bowhunting in Texas and beyond.
Lou shares many tips for hunting the rut during deer season and tips and ideas you may not have thought of before to increase your odds on bagging that buck of a lifetime or some meat for the freezer. Whatever the pursuit, this was a fun podcast! Thanks for listening.
Mentioned in the Show:
Grim Reaper Broadheads: https://grimreaperbroadheads.com
Gold Tip Arrows and Bolts: https://www.goldtip.com
Lumnok Lighted Arrow/Bolt Nock: https://lumenok.com/
DB Hunting Ranch/Processing & Taxidermy: http://dbwildgameprocessing.com
About the Podcast: The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing and other outdoor activities. The show is broadcast across a number of different audio platforms and serves as a source of education and inspiration for all things outdoors. Host Dustin Warncke is a critically-acclaimed author, outdoor writer for TF&G and other publications, video and audio producer, speaker and blogger who has excelled in many areas of outdoor media.
Texas Fish & Game is the largest and most popular outdoor publication in the Lone Star State. No other publication matches our coverage of hunting, fishing, guns, gear, tackle, conservation, outdoor news, and wildlife subjects. Our editorial cadre includes the best outdoor writers in the Lone Star State—all experts in their respective fields. This is the sportsman’s one-stop resource for information and education on Texas’ outdoors.
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
In this episode, Dustin connects with Simon Fowler and his guide service Wild Places Wild Game based in New Zealand. This is another "destinations" episode, exploring new places to adventure in the great outdoors. Dustin and Simon talk about hunting red stag, tahr, fallow deer, sheep and other wild game as well as fishing adventures that can be taken in and around New Zealand.
Contact Simon:
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About the Podcast: The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing and other outdoor activities. The show is broadcast across a number of different audio platforms and serves as a source of education and inspiration for all things outdoors. Host Dustin Warncke is a critically-acclaimed author, outdoor writer for TF&G and other publications, video and audio producer, speaker and blogger who has excelled in many areas of outdoor media.
Texas Fish & Game is the largest and most popular outdoor publication in the Lone Star State. No other publication matches our coverage of hunting, fishing, guns, gear, tackle, conservation, outdoor news, and wildlife subjects. Our editorial cadre includes the best outdoor writers in the Lone Star State—all experts in their respective fields. This is the sportsman’s one-stop resource for information and education on Texas’ outdoors.
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
On this episode Dustin Warncke hosts another live stream episode on location at a Cross Water Outfitters fishing ministry event. Dennis Martin and Ed Hellon join as Dustin's guests and these three avid outdoorsmen talk about the great outdoors, boat maintenence during the winter months and innovations in boating technology, bass fishing and much more! Thank you as always for listening!
Cross Water Outfitters: http://crosswateroutfitters.com
CWO FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/Cross-Water-Outfitters-219654064744445/
Dennis Martin: https://www.facebook.com/dennis.martin.9256
Ed Hellon: https://www.facebook.com/eddychristi.hellon
About the Podcast: The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing and other outdoor activities. The show is broadcast across a number of different audio platforms and serves as a source of education and inspiration for all things outdoors. Host Dustin Warncke is a critically-acclaimed author, outdoor writer for TF&G and other publications, video and audio producer, speaker and blogger who has excelled in many areas of outdoor media.
Texas Fish & Game is the largest and most popular outdoor publication in the Lone Star State. No other publication matches our coverage of hunting, fishing, guns, gear, tackle, conservation, outdoor news, and wildlife subjects. Our editorial cadre includes the best outdoor writers in the Lone Star State—all experts in their respective fields. This is the sportsman’s one-stop resource for information and education on Texas’ outdoors.
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
On this episode, Dustin sits down with Matt Williams, TF&G columnist and freshwater fishing expert. We talk about the fall and winter fishing season, the big shake-up between Bassmaster and Major League Fishing and pro-bass anglers, catfish rod-and-reel and jugline techniques and even striper fishing! Now go out there and have an awesome day in the outdoors!
Read Matt’s Fishing Column Monthly in TF&G: http://www.fishgame.com
About the Podcast: The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing and other outdoor activities. The show is broadcast across a number of different audio platforms and serves as a source of education and inspiration for all things outdoors. Host Dustin Warncke is a critically-acclaimed author, outdoor writer for TF&G and other publications, video and audio producer, speaker and blogger who has excelled in many areas of outdoor media.
Texas Fish & Game is the largest and most popular outdoor publication in the Lone Star State. No other publication matches our coverage of hunting, fishing, guns, gear, tackle, conservation, outdoor news, and wildlife subjects. Our editorial cadre includes the best outdoor writers in the Lone Star State—all experts in their respective fields. This is the sportsman’s one-stop resource for information and education on Texas’ outdoors.
Thursday Sep 27, 2018
Thursday Sep 27, 2018
On this week's episode, Dustin sits down with Zach Byrd, an avid YouTube channel host and and outdoor poet and videographer. Zach and Dustin talk about trends going on in our modern society, hunting traditions, and much more in this stimulating, outdoor life enriching podcast. Dustin features two of Zach's works in the beginning and end of the podcast, The Falling of the Veil and the Call of Fall which are short films from YouTube:
Connect with Zach:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008617751427
FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/348335505290195/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/byrddogJo613
The Falling of The Veil: https://youtu.be/HZNEwl1BDaQ
The Call of Fall: https://youtu.be/3KwEmdLT3aw
Text of The Falling of the Veil:
I was 24 when I realized the wild was dying. The epiphany came to me while deer hunting one October evening. Such epiphanies rarely seize a man of the morning time, I’ve found. There’s a frailty to morning light. It softens the hard edges of the world where the dew of night makes camp. Its angle radiates a white hue and illuminates the unnamed particles of vagabondage—the dregs of dreams—the frayed edges of night—both waltzing a final waltz. It glows like a lover’s breath and curls along each beam like baby-hair. During such moments, a poet can only sing. October is spring within the fall here in Georgia. A deciduous cacophony sweeps the hollows. The vibrant yellows of Mountain Ash, Bitternut Hickory and Black Walnut harmonize in splendor with the subtle bronze shield of the American Beech and Sweet Birch. Fiery clashes from the Northern Red Oak and American Sycamore erupt and seem to disperse red flickering embers of the Red Maple, Black Cherry and Flowering Dogwood. But evening light lands differently upon a man’s heart. The harsh angle does not bring with it a new day. Instead, it rides on a thin veil of dusk and as this veil drifts over the cacophony, the former colors begin to smear with one another in static noise. As night impedes, the observer is left looking at a muddy and mysterious scene, drained of its vibrancy. The wind through it whispers but two words: brevity and goodbye. It was during one of these October evenings that I heard a similar whisper in my heart. The words formed and lingered like a hybrid of mist and smog—a clumsy juxtaposition composed of forest noise and the hum of distant highway traffic. From my tree near the mountaintop, far away, I could see the pulse of the city. Brake lights flickered between invisible tree branches. Occasional horn honks shot outward into the forest like futuristic arrows. Faintly, when the wind blew just right, I could make out the golden arches of the burger joint below. As night arrived and I began gathering my equipment, I felt a weight inside me I’d not felt before. It was not tied to knowing I’d soon assume my position within the red pulse of civilization. No, I’d already come to terms with that epiphany at a younger age. This was different, subdued, like the impossible ideas that transcend the minds of children and twist them into adults or the gray and gritty smear between erosion lines. As I made my descent and the city was swallowed by the mountainside, I looked out across the drained lowlands of the Etowah River Valley and saw great running ghostly gray squares in the night that look barren and alien even from space. As I pulled my truck out onto the road, as my eyes squinted into the headlights of oncoming cars, I realized that these are the evening days of wildness. Although the deer still fear our silhouette and our scent and the squirrel continue to bark at the cadence of our footfalls over dry leaves, I know in my heart that these creatures are static noise. They are echoes of a day when wildness could not be tamed. And they are caught, just as I am caught, somewhere in a dusky hue, where history and the present moment tear apart and become strangers to one another. I still go to the woods. The wildest spot I find there is often in my mind, when I’m able to imagine the fleeting vision of how it all was before it all was not. Sometimes it’s a Cherokee in my periphery, kneeling near a log, his turkey feathers quietly shaking as he draws his bow. Other times it’s along the long lashes of a mother doe as her fawn nurses the last few drops from her before the leaves begin to change. I haven’t stopped killing deer but I don’t take as many as I once did. Nowadays, I like being near deer more than anything. I think it’s because we share a common awareness. For one of us, it’s conscious, for the other, a raw flame of instinct. But for each of us it acts as a compass needle. It keeps us alive. It tells us when to run, when to stop. It tells us when to eat and when to rest. The needle of the doe sends her away from me. And my needle sends me after her. Sometimes it’s to kill. But most times, it’s only to witness a brief, muddy glimpse before the falling of the veil.
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Thursday Sep 13, 2018
On this episode, Dustin sits down with Roy Crush from Texas Boys Outdoors, a TV show outdoor organization, and talk about opening weekend of dove season, last minute prep for deer hunting season and other outdoor adventures. Roy is one of the favorite guests of the show and we have a great time together.
Connect with Roy!
https://www.texasboysoutdoors.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Texas-Boys-Outdoors-440789635942571/
https://www.facebook.com/royboy42
Mentioned in the Show:
Frio Ice Chests: https://www.frioicechests.com/
Stationary Dove Decoys: https://amzn.to/2wMATXK
Mojo Dove Decoys: https://amzn.to/2NwOIEt
Vapor Trail Scents: http://vaportrailscents.com
Big & J: https://bigandj.com/
Hunter's Specialities: http://hunterspec.com/
About the Podcast: The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing and other outdoor activities. The show is broadcast across a number of different audio platforms and serves as a source of education and inspiration for all things outdoors. Host Dustin Warncke is a critically-acclaimed author, outdoor writer for TF&G and other publications, video and audio producer, speaker and blogger who has excelled in many areas of outdoor media.
Texas Fish & Game is the largest and most popular outdoor publication in the Lone Star State. No other publication matches our coverage of hunting, fishing, guns, gear, tackle, conservation, outdoor news, and wildlife subjects. Our editorial cadre includes the best outdoor writers in the Lone Star State—all experts in their respective fields. This is the sportsman’s one-stop resource for information and education on Texas’ outdoors.
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
In this continuation of the TF&G saltwater fishing series, Dustin sits down with Cal Gonzales, Texas Fish & Game saltwater fishing editor and Texas coastal hotspot focus columnist. We talk about all kinds of things from catching mangrove snapper, Yo-Zuri lures, top water fishing action and fishing tactics for the lower Texas coast. Thank you so much for listening and please remember to subscribe and leave us a review on iTunes or where ever else you heard this show!
Connect with Cal!
https://www.facebook.com/calixto.gonzales
Music by Adam J: @freestylefisherman
https://www.facebook.com/FreestyleFisherman/
Full Music Video: https://www.facebook.com/FreestyleFisherman/videos/483626495314606/
About the Podcast: The Best of the Outdoors Podcast is optimized to bring listeners the best in hunting, fishing, shooting, bowfishing and other outdoor activities. The show is broadcast across a number of different audio platforms and serves as a source of education and inspiration for all things outdoors. Host Dustin Warncke is a critically-acclaimed author, outdoor writer for TF&G and other publications, video and audio producer, speaker and blogger who has excelled in many areas of outdoor media.
Texas Fish & Game is the largest and most popular outdoor publication in the Lone Star State. No other publication matches our coverage of hunting, fishing, guns, gear, tackle, conservation, outdoor news, and wildlife subjects. Our editorial cadre includes the best outdoor writers in the Lone Star State—all experts in their respective fields. This is the sportsman’s one-stop resource for information and education on Texas’ outdoors.