A rainbow trout tagged by FWP as part of its study of fish declines in southwestern Montana rivers. (Image courtesy FWP) You really can’t make this stuff up. Last week Montana’s Department of Fish, ...

A previous record-high brown trout population contributed to an outbreak of a fungal infection known as Saprolegnia in the Big Hole River in the fall of 2014, according to the Montana Department of ...

HELENA, Mont. — New brown trout regulations were approved on Friday by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for the Big Hole and Beaverhead rivers, effective immediately. The regulations are meant ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Trout tagging is going on its second year in the Big Hole, Beaverhead, Ruby and Madison Rivers. Tagging local trout is meant to help Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and Montana State ...

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.

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 ...