IllinoisOutdoors

Don Dziedzina, Illinois Outdoors, Inc.
I began my career in the outdoors in 1984 as an outdoor writer. From there I co-hosted an outdoor radio show and assisted in an outdoor television show both in front of and behind the camera.

 In April of 1995 the first Illinois Outdoors Television Show was aired on Time Warner Cable. This show covers all sorts of fishing and hunting as well as other items of special interest to the outdoors enthusiast. Over the years, cable companies changed hands several times, but the Illinois Outdoors show continued every week without missing one. Today, Illinois Outdoors is aired on four affiliates of Comcast Cable and TV17 Outdoors in the far western suburbs for a total of about 75 communities that receive the show via cable. During this time, Illinois Outdoors had a five year run on WYCC PBS Broadcast Television in Chicago. New stations are currently being negotiated

 In January of 1999, Rich Komar (manager of the Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoors Show) and I co-produce and host the All Outdoors Televison Show. This is an in-studio show that is now taped in the Comcast Studio in Orland Park. The All Outdoors Television Show has a new and unusual
outdoors item segment, fishing and hunting tips, photos from our viewers and a main segment with an interview with notable persons from the outdoors. This show has also been on every week since it began and is viewed in the same communities as the Illinois Outdoors show. In April of 2000, The All Outdoors Television Show won the 1999 Communicator Award for the Best Sports Show Open.

 I have done guest appearances on MidWest Outdoors Magazine televison show and CLTV Sports Page Outdoors as well as being a guest on outdoors radio shows including the Q Country Fishing Line, Mike Norris' Outdoor Journal Radio Show, Hunting the Midwest Radio Show, The Mike Jackson Show, and the ESPN Outdoors Show. 

At the present time, my articles can be read monthly in MidWest Outdoors Magazine, Heartland Outdoors, Adventure Sports Outdoors and weekly in the Russell Publications (9 towns in Will County) and the Review Atlas (Galesburg, IL area). In January of 2000, I was awarded the Reader's Choice Award from MidWest Outdoors Magazine.

 As for toys, I run a Crestliner 1850 Tournament Pro which in my opinion is a great all-around boat that allows me to fish the rivers, lakes and big water like Lake Michigan and Lake Erie.

 Because of the tv shows and the writing, I fish for all species of fish. I have also done seminars on the Cooling Lakes, Illinois River, Calumet River, Salmon and Trout Fishing and Fishing in general at all of the major outdoor shows in Tinley Park, Rosemont, McComrick Place and a great
number of fishing clubs. 

The Illinois Outdoors website www.illinoisoutdoors.com offers a lot of local Chicagoland information and fishing reports are updated regularly. Viewers are encouraged to send in their reports to be added. Also on the site you can purchase maps for the Cooling Lakes, Tampier Lake that I designed, each having over 20 spots where fish can be caught. I also carry Phil Trager's Illinois River maps. One is for the Starved Rock Pool and the other for the Lower Peoria Pool. 

Since the beginning of this year, I have been making Fishing Rod Covers that help protect your rods and keep them from tangling in your vehicle or rod box. All of this as well as links to many fishing and outdoors sites and more can be found at Illinois Outdoor.Com.

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