Field reports: Local TV anglers start show Saturday

FISHING – Two Medial Lake schoolteachers who have been sharing their fishing adventures on TV for five years will begin airing program on KLEW (Channel 3 for those with DISH and Direct TV) starting Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

“Fishing with Ladin” features co-hosts Ladin Langeman and Steve Ronholt as they fish some of the best angling waters of Washington, Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Canada, Utah and Idaho.

Their favorite trips include drift-boating the Kenai River in Alaska and catching large, wild, rainbow trout, hiking in to remote waters of Idaho and Canada and catching steelhead on the Grande Ronde River.

Here’s a sampling of show’s in this season’s lineup:

• Southwestern Canada’s bull trout and cutthroats.

• Madison River rainbows

• Silver Lake tiger muskies.

• Washington small-creek brown trout.

• Coffee Pot Lake rainbows.

• Lochsa River cutthroats.

• Thompson River rainbows, angling a not-so-well known Montana stream.

That’s just a sampling of the pair’s self-produced offerings. They say they try to make the episodes as entertaining as possible while inspiring young and old to enjoy the outdoors.

Rich Landers

Mount Spokane trail closed near summit

TRAILS – A trail that plummets down from the summit of Mount Spokane has been closed for rerouting and erosion control.

Steve Christensen, state park manager, said Trail 135 is especially popular with mountain bikers, but it’s poorly designed and seriously eroding.

It was still muddy with a few snow patches last weekend.

Plans to reroute the trail will make it safer, he said, but the bulk of the work may not get underway until September. The new version of the trail will be renumbered 140 and connect with another reconstructed trail that descends to the Mount Kit Carson Lower Loop Road trailhead.

Another priority project, Christensen said, is widening the nordic skiing trails to accommodate a larger groomer the state park may be able to purchase.

Rich Landers

Clearwater steelheading

goes to catch and keep

FISHING – The fall steelhead harvest season in Idaho opens Monday on a 2-mile stretch of the lower Clearwater River from its mouth to the U.S. Highway 12 Memorial Bridge near Lewiston.

The catch-and-release steelhead season has been open on the lower Clearwater River since the beginning of July.

Rich Landers

Montana readies lakes for cutthroat plant

FISHING – The Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission last week lifted daily fishing and possession limits on several lakes north of Seeley Lake as the agency prepares to restock the lakes with westslope cutthroat trout.

The ruling runs through Oct. 1 for Necklace, George, Woodward, Pyramid, Pilgrim and Upper and Lower Three Eagles lakes.

Associated Press