A brief history of the Payette Lake monster For nearly 100 years, the unofficial symbol of McCall has roamed the deep waters of Payette Lake. To stream KTVB on your phone, you need the KTVB app.

Signature McCall Winter Carnival features include snow and ice sculptures around town, live music, fireworks over Payette Lake and the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge, to name a few.

Ice season on Payette Lake often arrives late and doesn’t last long, but it’s here now. Read on to see how one lucky angler already wrestled a monster through the ice, plus more winter ...

Winter Carnival in McCall dazzles with snow sculptures and festive activities. ... In addition to the sculptures, attendees can enjoy live music, parades, and fireworks over Payette Lake.

The first documented sighting of Payette Lake’s serpentine monster took place in 1920, ... And every year during the town’s winter carnival, at least one sculptor carves a giant Sharlie in ice.

For the first time since 2014, Idaho Fish and Game has stocked kokanee salmon in McCall’s Payette Lake. The recent load of 400,000 fingerling kokanee is the latest step in an effort to balance ...

The Payette National Forest produced an extensive history of the crash and rescue in August 2002. “The Real Story of the Loon Lake Bomber” by Richard H. Holm Jr. can be found on the Internet ...

Managing a large sterile lake with big, long-lived predators and a fluctuating prey species poses a big challenge for fisheries managers, and Payette Lake at McCall is the latest case ...

For the first time since 2014, Idaho Fish and Game has stocked kokanee salmon into Payette Lake in McCall. Hatchery staff stocked a total of about 400,000 kokanee into the ...