TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced full fishing closures will take effect starting Friday for a section of the lower Big Hole River. The closure is an 18-mile area that ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced fishing will be closed for the Big Hole, the Ruby and the Beaverhead Rivers due to brown trout spawning season. This is to help rebuild fish ...

FWP ordered a fishing ban on the entire Big Hole and Jefferson rivers due to low flows and high water temperatures on August 22.

HELENA (AP) - Fishing is being banned on a 19-mile stretch of the upper Big Hole River because of extremely low water levels, the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced Tuesday. The water is ...

Due to low flows, high water temperatures and an unseasonably warm and dry forecast, the entire Big Hole River has been closed to fishing. Fishing restrictions and closures like these are designed to ...

A better trout-fishing experience for all anglers is the aim of a new rule that will reduce crowding problems and emerging social conflicts on two popular blue ribbon trout streams in southwestern ...

A great hue and cry produced a prodigious splash last year — like a burly brown trout pursuing a salmonfly. The fuss and fuming focused on trout populations declining since 2011 in the nationally ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to ...

TWIN BRIDGES – Brian Wheeler has spent a fair bit of the last six years wearing waders in the middle of the Big Hole River documenting river conditions and collecting samples of macroinvertebrates.

Consistent high water temperatures and low stream flows have prompted Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks to close two sections of the Big Hole River and the entire Jefferson River to all fishing. FWP is ...