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2008 FALL MACK DAYS
FISHING EVENT
(Lake Trout Fishing Event)
on
Flathead Lake-Over
$37,000
in cash & prizes available
($10,000-$30,000 in bonuses for all
anglers entering 20 or more lake trout)+
Over $16,000 cash awards in a lottery style drawing
plus 755 tagged lake trout
with
values from $100-$5,000
OCTOBER
3rd-NOVEMBER 16th
(Fridays,
Saturdays, & Sundays)
All it takes is one
fish to win!!
Fish 21 days and/or pick your best 12 days to compete
for the top angler prizes.
Sponsored by the
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
and sanctioned by Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks.
Flathead Lake-Polson, Montana
KwaTaqNuk
"Where The Water Leaves The Lake"
Best Western-KwaTaqNuk Resort & Casino
Polson, Mt.
112 rooms/Jocko's Restaurant/Indoor Pool
Managers Special Rate for Fall Mack
Days Participants
$84.79/night($105.99 reg.)-you must specify that you
are a Fall Mack Days participant.
49708 US Hwy. 93 East
406-883-3636
Winner of the large lake trout category during Spring Mack Days for the second year
in a row
Willie Murry and his son Tanner
entered this large lake trout 4/26/08. This lake trout
measured 43"
and weighed in at 26.6 lbs.
Rick Skates and Phil Lehner of Polson do it again!! Wasn't
quite large
enough but what a nice fish. This one measured 38" and
weighed 25.2lbs.
4/12/08
2008 Spring Mack Days
Bill Swaney on 3/21/08 with lake trout
entries.
Understand and appreciate the event
rules-good sportsmanship depends on conforming to the
intent of the rules and to not be looking for a loophole. You
may enter only the lake trout you
have caught.
Fish entered daily are to be harvested on that day. When you take your
lake trout
home they will be clipped. Keep the fish on ice if you are going
to donate them. They are
going to be
processed for the
food pantries. We cannot accept fish that are not kept on
ice.
Check out the
sportsmanship
page.
Spring Mack Days Anglers:
The 2008 Mack
Days Committee sincerely thanks you for your participation and
valuable
contribution to the Spring Mack Days event. You helped make the
event a big success. We achieved
a total harvest of 9,910 lake trout, or over 2,000 more fish
than were caught in the 2007 spring event.
We achieved this increased harvest largely by making the event
two weeks longer than last year’s.
These events must still grow larger before they can influence
the over-abundant lake trout population.
We remain committed to the use of the angling public to
accomplish this goal, and we continue to look
for new ways to increase angler participation and success.
There will again be an increase in the prize
money for the fall event that will begin on October 3rd
and run until November 16th. We welcome any
additional suggestions you may have for increasing the success
of the event. We will also be recruiting volunteers in the fall
event to help us tag fish so that we can conduct a population
estimate.
We will use the spring 2009 event for recapturing those tags.
It is necessary for us to know just how
large the lake trout population is in order to gauge our effort
to reduce their numbers, and we need to
tag several thousand fish to be able to generate a valid
estimate.
Again, we congratulate you on your
accomplishments in 2008 Spring Mack Days and look forward to
your
participation n future contests. Please direct your suggestions or comments
to
Barry Hansen at 883-2888 ext. 7282,
or Cindy Benson at ext. 7294.
The Mack Days Committee and the Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes
Check out the largest lake trout page for info on that category.
Pick your best 12 out of 21 day totals.
Totals will depend on the numbers of
tagged lake trout and bonus payout numbers.
Go to the current leaders
page for the top 60 entries and
leaders in the other categories.
Ice is a requirement for the lake trout
that are going to be donated
to area food pantries. We will not take fish that have not
been
kept on ice!!!
We encourage
all boaters/anglers to use caution and be safe while on the
lake.
Check out safe boating and launching
tips.
Click here
for 2008 Spring
Winners
Andrew Cornelius of Kalispell reeled in this nice lake
trout
Easter Sunday. Just under 30" it is the largest he has
ever caught.
Incentives for
fishing more than 12 days are:
1. Higher bonus category
2. Catching a tagged fish
3. Better 12 day total for
drawing & top angler award.
We have another telephone number
for Fall Mack Days to go along with our
cell phone number. The new number is 406-982-3142
for the
Blue Bay Boathouse.
Our cell phone number is still 406-270-3386.
Office number is 406-883-2888 ex. 7294.
FLATHEAD RAFT COMPANY, INC.
FLATHEAD LAKE FISHING
CHARTER OR RAFTING TRIP
Click here
for more information.
Final numbers sometimes are different than
what is first reported. The reason
for the difference is catching mistakes when we finally have the
time to go
over all envelopes and verify numbers. Also we do not mean
to leave any
one off of any list. Each and every angler and the number
of lake trout they caught-if it
is one fish or over 200-they all add up and all count.
We can only list so many names
so we have to limit what is printed. Youth anglers are an
important investment
in our future and are given priority on lists that go out to
papers.
All it takes
is one fish to win!!
Mack Days Events are
about fishing, family, and fun.
"Man can learn a lot from fishing -- when the fish are
biting no problem
in the world is big enough to be remembered."--
Orlando A. Battista
Flathead Lake Anglers-Send us your photos or stories to be
published on the
Flathead Lake Anglers page!!
Fish one
day or 21 days-All it takes is one fish to win!!
The best 12 days you fish count in the lottery drawing.
Fish more than 12 and increase your bonuses.
21 Great days of Fishing Flathead Lake, coordinated by the MACK
DAYS committee,
supported by the
Confederated Salish &
Kootenai
Tribes & MT
Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
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