Articles with the Tag: Flathead Lake
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...
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...
$12 million judgment overturned RONAN – The Montana Supreme Court will allow an insurance company to make its case in Flathead County District Court that it should not have to pay the $12 million settlement resulting from construction disputes for Shelter Island, which lies in the mid...
PABLO — Virgil Dupuis has spent the last 30 years fighting with invasive species so he’s a good fit for Governor Steve Bullock’s Montana Invasive Species Advisory Council. The governor appointed Dupuis and seven other Montanans to the council on Feb. 20. Although the board hasn’...
Competitive swimmer and coach Mark Johnston left Montana to swim in the first open-water winter swim sanctioned in America, and returned home a national champion. “I am really happy with how I did,” Johnston said. “I didn’t know what to expect. I hadn’t done anything like thi...
State lawmakers have sent a bill to Governor Steve Bullock allowing for the construction of a public dock at Wild Horse Island State Park. Prior to the bill’s passage, the state was prohibited from constructing docks on islands, although according to Sen. Janna Taylor, R-SD 6, funds were appro...
LAKE COUNTY — There is one word that sums up the outlook Mission Valley real estate agents have for 2015: optimistic. The further in the rear view mirror the crash seven years ago gets, the better things appear. With the beginning of a new year comes new hope for real estate. “The perfect pict...
Fishermen, Lots of snow on relatively thin ice makes for a cold sloppy mess. Fortunately the discomfort you feel above the ice doesn’t affect the fish under it. This has been one of the best years for trout (mostly brown trout) at Crow Reservoir. A lot of small perch and a few larger ones i...
