About Your Host
Don Dziedzina
Don Dziedzina has been involved in the outdoors industry for nearly 35 years.
As an outdoor writer, Don has published columns in eleven weekly newspapers, three monthly outdoor magazines, and one bi-weekly outdoor newspaper. In 2005 and 2006, Don won the Illinois Outdoor Writer of the Year Award. In 2005 he also won the Reader's Choice Award from MidWest Outdoors Magazine. And, the Illinois Press Association awarded Don with 1st Place in a writer's competition for a Sports Column. The column that won was deer hunting in southern Illinois.
In 1995, Don began to produce and host the Illinois Outdoors Television Show. This show is taped on the water and in the field featuring the great outdoor opportunities that we all enjoy in Illinois. This show has been on the air every week since 1995 on a number of different television stations in the Chicago market and is currently reaching nearly seven million households weekly.
Don's second television show, The All Outdoors Television Show began in 1999 and continues to run every week. This show is co-hosted and co-produced by Rich Komar. The All Outdoors TV Show is a studio show that features outdoors news, new and unusual outdoor products, guests from the outdoors industry, photos, and more. Ron Miltzow provides viewers with fishing or hunting tips every week. This show has been light heartedly coined as being, "The only All Outdoors TV show taped entirely indoors." This show also airs in the greater Chicagoland market.
In May of 2006, Don joined the long running outdoor radio team of Ray Ludkevicz and Jim DaRosa on The Fishing Line and Outdoors Radio Show that broadcasts live every week on four radio stations in northern Illinois. In 2008, the show celebrates its 25th year of weekly broadcasting.
An avid angler and one who also enjoys hunting, Don loves to share his experiences with others in his numerous columns, TV and radio shows, seminars, and public appearances.
