Regional outdoor radio with field-tested patience.
Jim Strader Outdoors keeps close to the practical rhythms of hunting and fishing seasons. Recent episodes move from turkey behavior and crappie patterns to shed antler legality, habitat work, and sharing wild harvest with others.
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Jim Strader Outdoors is an outdoor radio show built around hunting, fishing, conservation, and the habits of people who spend real time in the field. It is practical first. Recent episodes follow the calendar closely, moving from late-winter wildlife activity into crappie pre-spawn conditions, shed antler walks, turkey season preparation, and deeper conversations about wild turkey biology. The turkey episodes are especially detailed. Guests and the program voice talk through box calls, slate calls, purr pots, scratching in leaves, hung-up gobblers, scouting, timber habitat, roost abandonment, and the way dominant birds shape flock dynamics. The show also makes space for bigger management questions, including season timing, harvest pressure, nesting activity, and population decline. It does not treat hunting as only sport. Episodes return often to stewardship, legality, and responsibility, including reminders about contacting a game warden before removing a deer skull with antlers attached. Fishing talk has the same grounded character. A crappie discussion starts with weather, cold fronts, wind, and the movement toward spawning season, then settles into where fish are holding and how baitfish movement changes the target zone. The pacing is loose but knowledgeable. Sponsor reads and station intros take up room, yet they also mark the show as live, regional, and familiar rather than overproduced. Guests are often framed as people with field experience, research background, or outdoor community ties. Dr. Mike Chamberlain brings turkey research into the conversation. Keith Mark is introduced through outdoor television work and advocacy for outdoor people. Terry Parton appears in a discussion about Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry and the idea of sharing harvest with others. The show is best understood as a working conversation for hunters, anglers, landowners, and conservation-minded listeners. It favors long explanations over quick tips. It can ramble, but the rambling usually stays close to weather, habitat, gear, wildlife behavior, safety, and the next practical thing to do before heading outside.
Made for: For hunters, anglers, landowners, and conservation-minded listeners who like local radio pacing and practical seasonal detail. It especially fits people interested in turkey hunting, fishing conditions, habitat, and outdoor responsibility.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the combination of live radio texture and unusually detailed field conversation. The show lets hunting tactics, wildlife research, legal reminders, and community service sit in the same practical lane.
Jim Strader is recognized as one of the best outdoor communicators in the country. His career as an outdoor columnist, radio broadcaster, expo producer and outdoor television host has firmly established Jim as one of the nation’s leading experts. Hear Jim Strader Outdoors every Sunday night at 6 in Louisville on NewsRadio 840 WHAS.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed field advice meets serious attention to habitat, animal behavior and conservation in Jim Strader's patient outdoor conversations.
Jim Strader Outdoors turns field experience into patient radio conversation, moving between hunting technique, wildlife management and the close observation that both demand.
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A turkey-calling lesson that favors soft calls, scouting, and reading the habitat birds are using.
Jim Strader Outdoors keeps its focus on turkey calling and fieldcraft, moving steadily from box calls to friction pot calls and then to slate calls, purrs, and leaf scratching.
A turkey season discussion built around breeding behavior, season timing, and the effect of removing a dominant bird.
Jim Strader Outdoors settles into a thoughtful turkey-hunting discussion as Dr. Mike Chamberlain lays out dominance hierarchies, breeding activity, and what can happen when a dominant gobbler is removed from a flock.
A grounded discussion of wild turkey decline, habitat change, and harvest timing through both field experience and research.
Jim Strader's conversation with Mike frames the wild turkey decline as a practical field problem, not just a management headline. Mike connects familiar hunter observations to the broader habitat shifts that can push birds away even when a roost still looks the same from the…
A practical late-winter guide to shed hunting, legal caution, and finding smallmouth around moving baitfish.
Late winter comes across here as a season for reading signs, not just waiting out the thaw. Shed-antler hunting is framed as more than a walk for antlers: it can show how deer handled ice, snow, disease, age, wounds, or scarce food.
A grounded rabbit-hunting episode about better farm habitat, scarce quail, and getting Kentucky children into small-game traditions.
Rabbit hunting is the doorway here, but the episode is really about the farm ground that makes small-game hunting possible: when fields get mowed, what cover is left, and whether rabbits have any place to go.
Wild turkey research meets the difficult question of what harvest changes before nesting begins.
Jim Strader Outdoors frames turkey harvest as a question of what changes inside the flock after a mature gobbler is removed. Mike explains how dominant birds fit into the pecking order and why their absence can shift the group, even if the full effect is not easy to pin down.
This episode of Jim Strader Outdoors discusses how hunters and anglers can share their outdoor experiences and harvest with others, particularly focusing on giving back to the community, youth involvement, and those unable to participate.
Jim Strader and co-host Scott interview Dr.
Jim Strader hosts rabbit hunting experts Scott Smith and Josh Bramel to discuss the sport's traditions and modern challenges.
Jim Strader and Ed Morris preview October hunting and fishing, arguing that cooler weather is bringing fish and deer into more active fall patterns.
Jim Strader opens with the sponsor roll and call-in numbers before the turkey talk gets rolling.
Jim Strader opens the night with Mike on wild turkey research.
Jim Strader interviews world bass fishing champion and Hoosier Bass Fishing Hall of Famer Wes Thomas about pre-spawn bass tactics during fluctuating spring weather.
This episode of Jim Strader Outdoors features guest Jeremy Mattingly discussing crappie fishing, focusing on pre-spawn strategies and insights as mid-March approaches spawning season.
This episode of Jim Strader Outdoors features guest Keith Mark, founder of Hunternation.org, discussing hunting, fishing, and conservation topics.
Jim Strader talks with turkey researcher Mike about roosts that go quiet and what may be changing around them.
Jim Strader and Scott Conner argue that late February soil conditions, daffodils, robins, ducks, and sandhill cranes all point toward an earlier spring in Kentucky.
This episode of Jim Strader Outdoors features a discussion about rabbit hunting with guests Scott Smith and Josh Bramel, focusing on hunting techniques, conservation, and outdoor activities.
This episode of Jim Strader Outdoors focuses on how hunters and anglers can share outdoor experiences and harvests with others, particularly through charitable initiatives like Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry.
This episode focuses on raising awareness and prevention of tick-borne diseases for outdoor enthusiasts, featuring expert guests to discuss the epidemic and safety measures.
This episode features an interview with Tyler Wayland from Roundstone Native Seed Company, discussing native plants and habitat conservation for wildlife and pollinators.