With Doug Washington
191 episodes listed below
Coastal fishing talk with a cranky comic streak.
Basin Tackle Show follows a talkative outdoor regular through coastal fishing weather, deer season, gear etiquette, and the odd food rabbit hole. It is practical, cranky, comic, and personal, with plenty of sideways jokes about rules, agencies, and everyday coastal life.
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Basin Tackle Show is a rough-edged outdoor talk show rooted in fishing, hunting, coastal weather, and everyday argument. It has the pacing of someone reporting from the middle of the week rather than from a polished studio plan. The show often begins with comic emergency signals: helmets, PFDs, fire extinguishers, shotguns, shovels, and a loud insistence that any fallout belongs to the speaker alone. Then it drifts into the practical business of outdoor life. Fishing weather matters. Wind matters. Whether a trip produced good fish matters too. In one episode, Dana catches the first fish, the speaker keeps one for dinner, and the rest of the story becomes a joke about paperwork and official surveillance. That is the show’s rhythm: a real outdoor detail, followed by an exaggerated complaint, followed by another ordinary detail that brings it back to earth. Hunting appears through deer-season dates and the seasonal feeling of fall. Food threads run through the show as well, especially Cajun seasoning, Tex-Mex, Mexican food, Italian cooking, and a home-kitchen white wine sauce experiment. The speaker also lingers on gardens, July Fourth, and the small social codes around gear. One closing story centers on someone pulling another person’s equipment, with the takeaway that outdoor courtesy still matters. The environmental clips in the openings are theatrical and chaotic, more like recurring alarm-bell collage than calm policy discussion. The result is not a pure fishing report and not a conventional hunting show. It is a personal outdoor show with weather, fish, food, patriotism, regulation jokes, and suspicion of anyone who handles another person’s gear. It suits listeners who like local color and unsanded edges. It is best for people who want outdoor talk that sounds lived-in, opinionated, and occasionally absurd.
Made for: For listeners who like fishing, hunting, and coastal outdoor culture delivered as loose conversation rather than tidy instruction. It especially suits people who enjoy local weather talk, food tangents, and blunt common-sense complaints.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by mixing practical outdoor notes with comic overstatement and personal digressions. A fish transfer can become an agency satire, and a fishing report can turn into dinner, gardens, or gear etiquette within minutes.
West Coast outdoors, politics, and more!
The tide report may end in a trolling-motor grievance, if that is your kind of outdoors talk.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A fishing update with weather, food, and one very specific gripe.
The Basin Tackle Outdoor Show for April 8, 2026 leans into a weather check and then drifts into a loose, opinionated fishing ramble. A recent outing with Dana, plus the kept fish for dinner, gives the talk some grip.
Trail miles, gear sense, and outdoor memory.
Garage talk for the slow trail crowd.
Outdoor talk from the camp table.
The Basin Tackle Outdoor Show episode dated July 15, 2026 covers bay and ocean conditions, including four-mile-per-hour winds, weekend gusts into the high 20s, and mixed swells reaching five feet.
Basin Tackle Outdoor Show’s June 10, 2026 episode covers North Bend weather, with 40-mile-per-hour gusts, forecast temperatures in the 80s, and FishWeather readings reaching sustained winds of 16 to 18 with higher gusts.
Basin Tackle Outdoor Show host John discusses southern Oregon Coast weather, Eugene’s inland heat, and changing fishing conditions for shad, rockfish, perch, and crawfish.
A political commentary show framed around outdoor activities, discussing environmental collapse and current events.
The host explains why his Hummingbird Helix 5 reliably distinguishes baitfish from rockfish in 6 to 30 feet.
A politically charged outdoor show host rants about environmental collapse, COVID-19 policies, and current events.
The host delivers a passionate, politically charged monologue about environmental collapse and censorship, framed as an outdoor show.
A politically charged outdoor show opening with a rant about environmental collapse and societal madness.
The host introduces the Basin Tackle Outdoor Show with dramatic environmental warnings about mass extinction and ocean pollution before transitioning to discuss deer season dates.
A politically charged outdoor show opening with a rant about environmental collapse and personal responsibility.
A politically charged outdoor show discussing environmental collapse and personal responsibility.
A politically charged outdoor show ranting about environmental collapse and celebrating Independence Day.
The host delivers a passionate, politically charged monologue about environmental collapse and current events, then transitions to weather and gardening talk.
A politically charged outdoor show opening with a rant about environmental collapse and plastic pollution.
A politically charged outdoor show opening with a rant about environmental collapse and Fukushima, then transitioning to a mixed bag of topics.