Listen to the Answers to These and Many Other Questions in This Week’s Montana Outdoor Podcast!
This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with Heath Headley, FWP Fisheries Biologist for Fort Peck Reservoir in Northeast Montana. When you click here to listen you will hear Rigger and Heath cover the Chinook, or King Salmon, egg collection effort that recently was completed as well as several other things about the mighty Kings of Fort Peck. In fact, one of the questions that Rigger was dying to get an answer to was why were the King Salmon that were caught in the reservoir this year so much bigger than they usually are? In fact, the State Record was broken this year and several other Kings that were caught were darn close to breaking the record as well. Do you think you know the answer to that question? Click here to listen to this week’s podcast to find out. Another major question that gets answered in this podcast is how many King Salmon eggs did Heath, and his crew collect and take to the hatchery in Fort Peck recently? Did they collect more or less than last year? How does that number compare to the largest number of eggs they have ever collected? Just click here to listen and find out the answer to that question and many more. All the secrets to what makes the King Salmon tick in Fort Peck Reservoir are revealed in this fascinating podcast!
Links:
- To learn more about the Chinook or King Salmon in Fort Peck Reservoir, click here.
- If you would like to learn more about the Fort Peck Hatchery, Click here .
- For additional information about this year’s King Salmon egg collection along with some pictures, click here.
- To see a picture of and learn more about the new State Record King Salmon, click here! To watch this monster get caught, click here!
- To learn about the Fort Peck Reservoir Fisheries Management Plan click here.
- Click here to read the entire undated version of the “FORT PECK RESERVOIR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT PLAN” covering 2024 through 2033!
- Still have more questions about the King Salmon or anything else swimming around in Fort Peck Reservoir? Click here to email Heath Headley.
- What did you think of this Podcast? Click here to email Downrigger Dale!
