Dean Tlougan; Times, They Are A-Changin’

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

2.4 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week we get to sit down with Dean Tlougan, owner of Premier Flight Guide Service in Rochester, MN. Dean was a guide for the very first Rochester guide service that opened in 1982 so he’s been at this for a while! He started running clients on his own in 1996 and hasn’t looked back since. We talk about how birds and hunting have changed over the years and what has caused some of those changes. Dean remembers some stories from his guiding career and we get Dean to play Say What with us! Thanks so much for listening and be sure to subscribe and review! New Waterfowl Film out now! Flooded Timber Duck Hunting in Arkansas Stay comfortable, dry and warm: First Lite (Code MWF20) Go to OnXHunt to be better prepared for your hunt: OnX Learn more about better ammo: Migra Ammunitions Weatherby Sorix: Weatherby Support Conservation: DU (Code: Flyways) Stop saying "Huh?" with better hearing protection: Soundgear Real American Light Beer: Outlaw Beer Live Free: Turtlebox Add motion to your spread: Flashback Better Merch: /SHOP

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0:00.0	Welcome to our Midwast Flywis Podcast. I am your host. Joy, Bossayo. And welcome to this week's episode of Midwest Flyways podcast.
0:10.6	Yeah. I'm... Go ahead. I am your co-host, Cal Ness. And this podcast is brought to you by Onex Hunt, Ducks Unlimited. We're in the Game Fair Studios. And Dean Toulogan is our very special guest here today. Dean, how are you doing? Are you going to die of a heat stroke? Well, I think I'm going to make it, but it is quite humid today. So we're going to try to get through this thing successfully. Yeah, without dying. Without dying. Without having a strike. No strokes today.
0:38.3	Stroke.
0:38.7	And Dean, you are the owner-operator of Premier Flight Outfitter, right?
0:43.4	Premier Flight Guide Service, Goosegrinders.com.
0:47.3	Yes, been doing it.
0:50.2	I think I've had my own business is 1997.
0:52.9	I should probably remember that.
0:54.6	But, yeah, I've seen the highs, the lows, the in-betweens, and everything in-between.
0:59.4	Yeah, a lot of cycles of things happening to come and go.
1:02.9	100%.
1:03.8	When you're down in Rochester, right?
1:05.4	I'm in Rochester.
1:06.3	We're based out of Rochester.
1:08.7	Yeah, then, of course, we do some snow goose hunts in the spring in Arkansas,
1:13.0	Northwest Missouri and South Dakota.
1:14.7	Arkansas.
1:15.9	Arkansas.
1:16.9	I'm telling you.
1:18.5	Good Lord, man.
1:19.5	There's a place there that you want to talk about unpredictable weather.
1:24.4	They don't think nothing.
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