Articles with the Tag: Flathead Lake
Fishermen, A week of continuous temperatures below freezing, no snow, and no wind made ideal conditions for ice to come on hard and fast. After spending the Thanksgiving holiday hunting with my son, Andrew in the Billings area, my first priority was to check out local ice to determine what I could safely ...
News from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks NORTHWEST MONTANA — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks have completed their bull trout redd count for 2015. These nests are typically four to six feet long by three feet wide, and easily identified by experienced field crew observers who walk known spawning a...
POLSON – Without wings, a man flew over the Flathead Lake on Saturday wearing a red suit. He leaned forward like Super Man, paused for a moment, and flipped around into a roll of floating somersaults. His body twisted around and around down towards the lake. He straightened out, pointed his arms down a...
Fishermen, The bite is on. I had a great beginning to fall whitefish at the Armed Forces Memorial bridge west of Polson Saturday evening, Nov. 7. My dog Molly and I rowed my little boat out from Riverside Park. The night was dead calm. I generally like a mild chop to break up the surface; the fish seem...
FLATHEAD LAKE — Representatives from Energy Keepers, Inc., NorthWestern Energy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Bureau of Indian Affairs conferred on Oct. 27 regarding current and projected operation of the Seli’s? Ksanka Qlispe’ Project, fo...
Fishermen, In my 68 years on planet earth I’ve never had an awareness of how good fishing could be in Polson Bay. A summer combination of high temperatures, more weed growth, knowledge of where the fish are and a spike in the new burgeoning population of small mouth bass added together equaled spect...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes FLATHEAD LAKE — The 2015 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event, a fisheries management tool used to reduce the non-native lake trout in Flathead Lake sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, continues through Nov. 15. As of week five, ...
High school rodeo set for Sept. 19-20 POLSON — Lake County High School Rodeo will be held at Polson Fairgrounds Sept. 19-20. Watch as the girls and boys participate in a wide range of rodeo activities: barrels, saddle broncs, goat tying, and breakaway and possibly sports shooting. There wil...
Ever since the land was new, before Flathead Lake and the Flathead River had names, snow has been falling on the mountains, melting and finding its way down the timbered slopes, into small creeks and streams before flowing into the lake. The lake narrows into Flathead River, where five miles southwe...
