Here’s what you SHOULD be hearing from FWP on the Flathead Lake DEIS
Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks (FWP) is staffed by talented managers and biologists doing great work for Montana’s fish, wildlife, and parks around the state. Unfortunately, FWP managers are choosing speculation over peer-reviewed science and sound economics to drum up opposition to the Flathead Lake Draft Environmental Impact Statement...
FVTU Comments on 2014 Regulation Changes
Don Skaar Fish Management Bureau Chief Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks P.O. Box 200701 Helena, MT 59601 Dear Don, Thank you for the opportunity to comment on proposed Montana fishing regulation changes for 2014. Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited (FVTU) consists of more than 300 Montana anglers and conservation-minded individuals...
Fish The Fish 2013
A new community event called Fish the Fish will offer an afternoon of unique activities and entertainment to the public, including a fly fishing expo, vintage travel trailer tour, fly fishing casting competition and a raffle for significant prizes benefiting breast cancer survivors. Fish the Fish will be held...
Help Protect the Smith River
Action Alert from Montana Trout Unlimited Tell Montana DEQ TODAY to require an EIS and better data for a proposed mining exploration in the Sheep Creek drainage of the Smith River. The Canadian mining company Tintina Alaska, Inc., wants to excavate a mile-long exploration tunnel near Sheep Creek, an...
Where is the outcry?
There seems to be more than a little agitation against the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes for seeking Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) mitigation funding to assist with their legitimate management of Flathead Lake and River fisheries. First of all, this is NOT federal tax money. The money comes from...
Remember When
Do you remember when you could fish for, and harvest large bull trout in the Flathead River? Remember when a 20-inch westslope cutthroat wasn’t a rarity? Most folks don’t, but it wasn’t all that long ago. In the 1970s and 1980s, river anglers harvested 6,000 to 7,000 bull trout...
A Tale of Three Fish
Our local native trout, bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout, were doing just fine until lake trout populations exploded in Flathead Lake due to the misguided introduction of Mysis shrimp. Large runs of adfluvial cutts and bulls would head up river every spring to spawn. Several years later the...
2013 Summer Newsletter
Hot Digity! The new Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited Summer 2013 newsletter is out. Grab your copy today and get up to date on what’s happening in our chapter and the fish world of NW Montana. Get the real skinny on the Draft EIS by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai...
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You can help our native trout now
FLATHEAD BULL TROUT AND WESTSLOPE CUTTROAT NEED YOUR HELP TODAY! The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are seeking comments on a draft environmental impact statement that evaluates options to benefit native trout by reducing lake trout numbers in Flathead Lake. Competition and predation from lake trout has resulted in...