Mack Days: Anglers reel in nearly 9,000 lake trout by week 5
Anglers made the most of a tranquil Saturday evening on Flathead Lake, just north of Boettcher Park. Conditions changed Sunday, when gusty winds roiled the lake but failed to deter Mack Days contestants. (Kristi Niemeyer/Leader)
There are still five weeks left in the 2024 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event on Flathead Lake. A total of 8,730 lake trout entries have been entered so far in this event.
Up to $200,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded on Nov. 3, the last day of the event. These events are sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and are used as a management tool in a fish conservation effort to reduce non-native lake trout in Flathead Lake and increase the native bull trout and westslope cutthroat. The events are designed to give everyone who catches even one lake trout the ability to win in the lottery drawings.
A total of 366 lake trout anglers are entered in the event, which is up from the 2023 number of 343. Of those, 105 anglers have caught one or more lake trout.
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