TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced some sections of the Big Hole River will reopen to fishing Tuesday, and additional restrictions will be implemented. Hoot-owl ...

HELENA, Mont. — Starting Thursday at 2 p.m., hoot-owl restrictions will be enforced on sections of the Ruby, Jefferson, Big Hole, Beaverhead, and Smith rivers. These restrictions prohibit fishing from ...

BUTTE — The announcement Tuesday by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks struck some river watchdogs as puzzling. They wondered about FWP’s decision to reopen sections 3 and 4 of the Big Hole River to ...

Early Sunday, the Big Hole River’s popular fishing access site at Jerry Creek Bridge was deserted. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports that water temperatures of 77 degrees Fahrenheit or more can ...

Electrofish sampling conducted this spring on the Big Hole River by fisheries staff with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks yielded estimates suggesting increases in trout numbers in two of the four ...

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 ...

Dual smoke columns from the Sawlog Fire is pictured on the afternoon of May 3rd (USFS Photo) A 1,400 acre fire in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest has closed a portion of the Big Hole River.

Montana FWP jumped the gun on reopening the Big Hole with flows well below the 25th percentile and the current flows did not reach the reopening criteria established by the Big Hole Watershed ...

When Brian Wheeler set out to install water quality monitoring equipment in the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana on June 28, he encountered an unexpected sight. In many parts of the river, ...

The number of brown and rainbow trout in some of Montana’s best-known and most scenic fishing rivers is at historic lows. With experts at a loss to explain it, state agencies, fishermen, businesses ...