Articles with the Tag: Flathead Lake
Three weeks are left in the nine-week 2015 Spring Mack Days fishing event. Anglers have turned in a total of 22,888 lake trout entries, 18,616 of those fish are from Friday through Sunday fishing days and 4,272 are Tuesday through Thursday fishing days. Jason Mahlen, Kalispell, took over the lead on Sunda...
FLATHEAD LAKE — The 2015 Spring Mack Days fishing event continues with anglers having turned in a total of 18,340 lake trout entries through the fifth of nine weeks. This spring’s event has reached the halfway mark and looks to be one of the more ones. The fifth weekend of the event has ...
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court has denied a real estate tycoon’s appeal to rehear a case disputing a $12 million Flathead County ruling that resulted from construction on Shelter Island in Flathead Lake. The court on April 14 denied a petition for rehearing filed by attorneys for Don...
News from the Montana Office of Tourism HELENA —The Audience Awards and Montana Office of Tourism Real Montana competition is now open for voting on one-minute videos submitted to compete in five categories: Food and Beverage; Artists, Culture and Events; Montana Places; Montana...
FLATHEAD LAKE — The 2015 Spring Mack Days Fishing Event moves on into the fifth week after a stormy, very windy, fourth weekend of lake trout fishing. Friday was a great day for the anglers with 1,457 lake trout turned in. Three anglers—Ryan Shima, Jason Mahlen, and Danner Shima—al...
News from the Boy Scouts of America, Montana Council FLATHEAD LAKE — Electricity has been restored to the Boy Scouts’ Camp Melita Island. In October, 2014, the power cable finally succumbed to many years of exposure. The cable stretched from the mainland, along the bottom of Flathead Lake, to ...
FLATHEAD LAKE — Exactly 194 anglers have turned in a total of 10,623 lake trout entries so far in the 51-day, 2015 Spring Mack Days event. During the Tuesday-Thursday fishing days, 1,528 of those fish were caught; during the Friday-Sunday fishing days, 9,095 fish were caught. The first t...
Spring Mack Days sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and sanctioned by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks began March 20 and will end on May 17. The event has up to $225,000 in cash and prizes that will be awarded to hard-working anglers at the conclusion of the fishing event that is...
The Mack Days Tournament is coming on me like a stampeding herd of Buffalo. Getting ready for it and the spring perch bite has kept us in hyperactive mode. The money amount for this tournament has almost doubled plus three more days has been added per week to expand the total fish caught. The extreme pres...
HELENA – A real estate tycoon will have to pay taxes on more than $41.8 million in property after the Montana Tax Appeal Board on March 18 failed to grant an appeal to assess improvements to a Flathead Lake island property at a much lower $9.8 million rate. Abbey Land, owned by Donald Abbey, a...
