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Anyone been up on Bonner lake? I’m interested in this new burbot bag limit and fish and game has been planting them in there. Anyone have any experience on these things? Also thinking about trying to catch some out of the Kootenai River but I’ve never fished it before.
Maybe they just have not updated the site then. Cool. May need to make a trip over there... Let us know if you try it out and do any good! I had a burbot fishing trip booked with a charter on Roosevelt, but the gov't shutdown caused the outfit to cancel the trip.
What did they say was the reason the gov. shutdown shut them down.
Roosevelt is a federal reservoir and they received a letter indicating that they could continue to operate, but that they would be doing so at their own risk. They are also not servicing the ramps, docks, bathrooms or trash at the launches. With the fluctuating water levels on Roosevelt, you could go out in the morning with a client and return to find that the dock is no longer usable if there is no one adjusting them to the level that the lake is currently at. (an extreme example) It's a liability issue that they just were not willing to take the chance with and I don't blame them. While I am dying to get out there, I cannot blame them for protecting their business interests. What sucks more is that those guys have no money coming in because they can't take clients out.