The Bonner area was recognized for its bull trout fishery, and there were campsites along the river. In fact, the Salish name for the confluence of the Big Blackfoot and the Clark Fork means “the place of the mature bull trout.” The Salish Tribal Council notes that one of the elders born in 1910 remembers camping along the river in fall hunting season just upstream from Bonner while the men would fish in the Clark Fork just upstream from the confluence.
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