Thu., Nov. 16, 2017, 6 a.m.
FISHING – Anglers will be fishing for more than $10,000 in cash and prizes under a new format when the 2017 Lake Pend Oreille Fall Thanksgiving Challenge Derby kicks off on Saturday. The annual event sponsored by the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club runs through...
Mon., May 8, 2017, 2:24 p.m.
FISHING -- A 23-pound mackinaw and a 17-pound rainbow will take the top prizes in the 70th annual Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club's K&K Spring Fishing Derby which concluded Sunday. The annual event started April 29 offering more than $18,000 in cash and prizes...
Mon., May 1, 2017, 11:29 a.m.
FISHING -- A 23-pound mackinaw and a 16-pound rainbow were the top fish after the weekend start in the 70th annual Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club's K&K Spring Fishing Derby. The event runs through May 7 with more than $18,000 in cash and prizes in...
Mon., Nov. 28, 2016, 4:01 p.m.
FISHING -- A 19.02-pound rainbow measuring 32.5 inches long and entered in the Adult Rainbow Division by Don Hale is the winning fish caught in the 2016 Lake Pend Oreille Fall Fishing Derby, according to unofficial results released today. The fish barely topped the 19-pound,...
Tue., Nov. 22, 2016, 6 a.m.
FISHING -- After three days of fishing, the lead the board as changed quite a bit in the 2016 Lake Pend Oreille Fall Fishing Derby, especially in the rainbow trout division. The top fish in the competition so far is a 19-pound, 35-inch long rainbow...
Wed., Nov. 16, 2016, 10:37 a.m.
FISHING -- Anglers will be fishing for more than $10,000 in cash and prizes when the 2016 Lake Pend Oreille Fall Fishing Derby kicks off Saturday, Nov. 19. The annual event sponsored by the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club runs through Nov. 23 with break...
Wed., Sept. 28, 2016, 7:10 a.m.
HABITAT -- Starting today, rock, willows and equipment will be barged to the the Clark Fork Delta where the mouth of the river meets Lake Pend Oreille to continue a multiyear, multimillion dollar project to keep vital wildlife habitat from eroding away. Barges and equipment...
Wed., May 4, 2016, 10:12 a.m.
FISHING -- Calvin Nolan landed a 34-inch long trout weighing 18.64 pounds to win the $2,500 top prize in the Rainbow Division of the 2016 Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club K&K Spring Derby. John Jay landed a 36-inch long lake trout weighing 18.98 pounds to...
Wed., April 20, 2016, 11:09 a.m.
FISHING -- Anglers will be competing for more than $10,000 in cash prizes when Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club Spring Derby kicks off this weekend. The annual event runs Saturday through May 1 with prizes in several divisions. The annual pin auction fundraising event for...
Wed., Dec. 2, 2015, 8:54 a.m.
FISHING -- Twenty pounders ruled in the 2015 Lake Pend Oreille Fall Fishing Derby that concluded Sunday. Top prize winners were Mike Halford of Bonners Ferry, who netted $2,000 for a 20.10-pound rainbow, and Scott Plue of Sandpoint, who won $1,000 for a 20.14-pound mackinaw....
Wed., Nov. 25, 2015, 3:14 p.m.
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Kokanee are spawning and dying in North Idaho's two largest lakes and bald eagles are loving it. Dozens of eagles are congregating at Granite Creek and in the Bayview shoreline area to take advantage of revived kokanee fisheries in Lake Pend Oreille....
Tue., Nov. 24, 2015, 8:30 a.m.
WILDLIFE WATCHING -- Reviving the kokanee fishery at Lake Pend Oreille is attracting more than fishermen. A good number of bald eagles are congregating in the Bayview area to hunt spawning kokanee, and those eagles are attracting bird watchers. Norma Jean Knowles caught the photo...
Wed., June 24, 2015, 2:32 p.m.
HABITAT -- Workers in the major project to shore up island erosion and restore wildlife habitat in Idaho's Clark Fork Delta are doing a little unexpected weeding. Illegal marijuana growing plots have been discovered two consecutive years, the Idaho Fish and Game Department reports. Several...
Mon., May 11, 2015, 11:25 a.m.
HABITAT -- April 21-23, May 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 27, 28, June 1, 2, 2015: Volunteers have been chipping in on shoring up the Clark Fork River Delta to massive erosion that's been wiping out habitat by the acre. You can help by being...
Wed., Oct. 1, 2014, 7:54 a.m.
FISHING -- Idaho Fish and Game officials plan to make a bed with hopes that kokanee wil lay (eggs) in it. A multi-year project to improve kokanee spawning habitat in Lake Pend Oreille is getting started as barges haul and dumping small gravel along a...
Tue., Aug. 12, 2014, 9:33 a.m.
LAKES -- Escorted by friends in boats on July 31, Elaine Kornbau Howley swam 34 miles across North Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille from Button Hook Bay on the south end of the lake to Sandpoint City Beach on the north end. Elaine completed the swim...
Fri., May 16, 2014, 5:37 a.m.
FISHING – The limit of kokanee anglers can catch at Lake Pend Oreille has been increased from 8 to 15. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved the increase at a meeting in Lewiston Thursday, effective immediately. Increasing the catch limit is a signal that...
Tue., April 22, 2014, 9:39 a.m.
FISHING -- They were cautious at first, allowing a daily limit of just six kokanee last year for the first kokanee fishing season since 1999 at Lake Pend Oreille. But Idaho Fish and Game Department officials say surveys continue to show the fishery has recovered...
Tue., Feb. 18, 2014, 6:32 a.m.
FISHING -- Although there’s still work to be done, Lake Pend Oreille’s troubled traditional fisheries continued their revival with a huge rebound in 2013. On Wednesday, Feb. 19, Idaho Fish and Game will present information about the status of the Pend Oreille fishery and management...
Tue., Jan. 14, 2014, 9:20 a.m.
FISHING – Although there’s still work to be done, Lake Pend Oreille's troubled traditional fisheries continued their revival with a huge rebound in 2013. On Wednesday, Feb. 19th , Idaho Fish and Game will present the most current information about the status of the Pend...
Mon., Sept. 30, 2013, 7:30 a.m.
TRAILS – A non-profit group has raised $400,000 to secure a key piece of Lake Pend Oreille waterfront for a trail near Sandpoint. Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail president Jon Sayler said a couple of large donations helped raise the required money a...
Fri., July 19, 2013, 6:16 a.m.
HIKING -- The greeting party was there, as usual on top of Scotchman Peak on Thursday, rewarding my daughter and me for our steep 7-mile-round-trip hike from the northeast corner of Lake Pend Oreille. Mountain goats that live on the Idaho peak towering above Clark...
Wed., June 5, 2013, 7:27 a.m.
SHOOTING -- There's clearly a demand for good-quality, safe shooting facilities, as demonstrated by the interest in last weekend's reopening of the range at Farragut State Park. Here's a media release with details on using the facility from Idaho Fish and Game. Farragut Hunters in...
Wed., May 29, 2013, 9:28 a.m.
SHOOTING -- After years of legal wrangling that closed the facility in 2006, the beefed up and controversial shooting range at Farragut State Park is scheduled to reopen on Saturday, according to a preliminary story just posted by S-R North Idaho reporter Scott Maben. See...
Mon., May 20, 2013, 6:05 a.m.
TRAIL – Introduce yourself to the developing Pend Oreille Bay Trail near Sandpoint with a running OR walking benefit on June 1, National Trails Day. Pre-register online by May 28 for the 5K and 10K events, which include t-shirts and prizes. The route starts and...
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.