Articles with the Tag: Fishing
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PABLO — Two mussel-fouled boats detected April 1 at the watercraft inspection station in Pablo reinforced the need for this year’s early opening. The aquatic invaders were found on the third day of operations in the parking lot of Salish Kootenai College’s Joe McDonald Health and Fitness...
Fishermen: This is my third fishing report in as many weeks. If you wonder why, it is because I am excited and there’s a need that only you all can fill. The problem is too many fish. When any species gets over populated, their close proximity and a diminishing food supply weakens them to a point th...

Fishermen, As good as the perch fishing was in the river below and at Polson, my thought was that the fishing will be as good or better in East Bay (extreme east side of Polson Bay) when the ice comes on. We had early ice around Thanksgiving and the small amount of time I spent on it showed great promi...
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...

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...
News from Fish, Wildlife and Parks LAKE COUNTY — Two 17-inch-long walleye were caught in Swan Lake last week during Fish, Wildlife and Parks gill net sampling operations, according to FWP Region One Fisheries Manager Mark Deleray. Deleray noted that these were the first walleye reported fro...

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, ...