17 October 2024
FWP Electrofishing Salmon For Egg, Milt Collection
Oct. 4 was the first day of electrofishing efforts by Montana FWP fisheries and hatchery staff. There are definitely Chinook salmon present in some of the bays, but spawning activity is not quite fully underway. The official salmon snagging (and, new this year, bowfishing), season started Oct. 1.
Water surface temperatures are still relatively warm as it relates to salmon spawning activity.
Summers Receives National Recognition
Wolf Point native Sierra Summers has received national attention for her cross country efforts at Dawson Community College.
Summers, a freshman, has been selected as the M-F Athletic National Athlete of the Week in cross country.
She was the Buccaneers’ top runner for the fourth time this season, most recently as the leading JUCO athlete in the Yellowjackets/Battlin’ Bears Open at Amend
Montana’s Tight Senate Race Draws National Attention, Money
On a sunny September afternoon in Butte, Democratic Sen. Jon Tester stood in a small room in a brick building and rallied a group of volunteers by casting his opponent, Republican businessman and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, as a wealthy transplant out of touch with local values.
“He doesn’t know Montana, and that’s the problem,” Tester told the crowd. “He doesn’t know Butte,
