For years, Tony Sanders Outdoors gave Chattanooga a Saturday morning gathering place for people who hunt, fish, shoot and care about conservation. The microphones are off now, but every show we have is here for you to listen to.
The show has wrapped up. Tony Sanders Outdoors is no longer broadcasting. This site is now the home of everything the show produced: the episode archive, the photos listeners sent in, and the businesses that made it possible. Pour a coffee and pick a Saturday morning.
The fusion of outdoor information, education and entertainment.
On April 21, 2007, Tony Sanders Outdoors first hit the airwaves on Talk Radio 102.3 in Chattanooga. The show was billed as an electronic campfire, a place where hunters and fishermen could call in and share their stories about time spent outdoors.
Airing Saturday mornings, it became a weekend staple for East Tennessee sportsmen, hosted by Tony Sanders alongside co-host Rob Prytula, the Trout Professor.
The show always took a deliberately positive approach to an outdoor and firearm lifestyle that too often gets covered negatively. That is the spirit the archive keeps.
Launched: April 21, 2007
Origin station: Talk Radio 102.3, Chattanooga
Format: Saturday morning outdoor talk
Hosts: Tony Sanders and Rob Prytula
Status: no longer broadcasting, full archive available here
Hundreds of Saturday mornings, catalogued, searchable and free.
Every show is listed with its date, running time and what was covered, so you can go straight to the interview or the tip you remember and play it right here in your browser. Search by subject, or just pick a year and wander.
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Interviews, callers, gear talk, fishing reports, conservation and plenty of stories. Shows run from 2009 through 2014, and we are still restoring recordings as we find them.
Written for the show by Tony and Rob.
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” That line from Romeo and Juliet is often used to imply that the name of a thing has no bearing on what it really is. When it comes to fish, the names tell you more than you might think.
A trout trip into the mountains turned into a lesson in extremes. Here is what the swing in temperature taught me, including one overlooked tactic that saved the day.
Summer is almost here. Soon the moist, hot, sticky air of the Tennessee summer will be upon us: heat, humidity, and not a breeze to be had. It is also when people fish the most.
In 2010 I had the extreme honor of being named Conservation Communicator of the Year by the Tennessee Wildlife Federation. Looking back on what that recognition meant, and what it still means.
Two lifelong outdoorsmen, on the air and in the field.
A lifelong Chattanooga resident who has spent most of his life in the field, Tony was named Conservation Communicator of the Year by the Tennessee Wildlife Federation in 2010.
A fly fishing expert and renowned fly tier who has fished all over the country and lectures at international fly tying meetings.
