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Mack Days angler lands, releases bull trout

by CSKT Fisheries
| April 18, 2024 12:00 AM

Spring Mack Days, sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and sanctioned by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, is moving into week number six in the nine-week long event. Entries continue to be taken until 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11.

Up to $225,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded by CSKT to anglers who have been participating in this management program to reduce the non-native lake trout in Flathead Lake and increase populations of native bull trout and westslope cutthroat.

Catching a bull trout is an experience, as angler Dan Deuschman of Missoula can attest. He was out with his fishing partner Larry Ashwell Saturday and caught a 10-pound bull trout. Dan had it back in the water quickly and the bull trout took off like a shot and disappeared into the depths of the lake.

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