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Articles with the Tag: Mack Days

Spring Mack Days in final week

Up to $225,000 in cash and prizes were awarded on May 17 at the conclusion of the 2015 Spring Fishing Event on Flathead Lake. Mack Days are sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and are used as a tool to reduce numbers of non-native lake trout in Flathead Lake. Native bull trout and westsl...

Spring Mack Days in final week Spring Mack Days in final week

FLATHEAD LAKE — Up to $225,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded on Sunday, May 17 at the conclusion of the 2015 Spring Fishing Event on Flathead Lake. Mack Days are sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and are used as a tool to reduce numbers of non-native lake trout in Flathead L...

Spring Mack Days heads into eighth week Spring Mack Days heads into eighth week

Spring Mack Days, sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and sanctioned by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, is moving into the eighth week of the nine-week event. Kalispell angler Jason Mahlen held onto first place through the seventh weekend of Spring Mack Days with weekend totals of 71,...

Mack Days anglers see sun, showers during week six of spring fishing event Mack Days anglers see sun, showers during week six of spring fishing event

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...

Spring Mack Days reaches halfway point Spring Mack Days reaches halfway point

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 ...

Anglers brave wind for Mack Days

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...

Tagged fish snagged in week 3, Spring Mack Days

  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...

2015 Spring Mack Days second week

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...

Moving to find Lake Trout best approach

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...

Mack Days anglers harvest 3,774 fish

FLATHEAD LAKE — Off to a great start, anglers in the 2015 Spring Mack Days fishing event turned in a total of 3,774 lake trout entries over the first weekend. The weather was great on Friday and the anglers many who had not fished all winter were anxious to get on the water.  Friday’s tot...


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