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Fort Peck: Big water, big fish, big business in Montana

The bigger the fish tales, the better for business.

That’s the sentiment among businesses in the Fort Peck Lake http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=2181&siteid=1 area.

After several years of low water levels — low enough to allow trees on the receded shoreline to grow as high as eight feet tall and leave some boat docks on completely dry land — three years’ worth of good moisture has filled the reservoir again.

"Since 2008, we are up 28 feet and just since last year, we’ve come up 15 feet," said John Daggett, operations project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers Fort Peck Project.

And that additional water has brought additional anglers in search of salmon, walleye, northern pike, trout and small mouth bass, said Betty Stone, owner of the Cottonwood Inn & RV Park in Glasgow.

"We’ve had a lot more fishermen, in particular from North Dakota and Wyoming, and I would guess some of that is due to the rising water levels and good fishing," she said. "Fishermen talk and spread the word. We’ve had a good salmon season this year and people are talking."

By JO DEE BLACK • Tribune Business Editor

Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100919/BUSINESS/9190305/Fort-Peck-Big-water-big-fish-big-business

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