Mackay Reservoir Report-Kokanees started biting!

[DeeCee]

I don't know the answer to your question on the ice houses being available for use. Sorry. On windy days, and Mackay res. is almost always windy, especially during the winter, we would cut holes to the south side of a unoccupied ice shanty to stay out of the wind and fish. The wind is enough of a problem at times that we used to joke about there being a wind goddess that lived up at the north end of the valley. There is only one remaining old cabin north of the res. at what use to be the tiny village of Chilly. Notice that is not spelled like the food chili that we eat. We don't use the four letter word "wind" on Mackay for fear the wind goddess will hear us and begin to stir the air and freeze us old ice fishermen to death.

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