Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Giving a hoot: Big Hole advocates puzzled by FWP's decision to reopen fishing on two sections

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 ...
NBC Montana

Sections of Big Hole River reopen to fishing, new closures in place

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 ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Big Hole: Trout numbers better than last year but still below average

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 ...
Daily Inter Lake

FWP cites four people for driving side-by-sides through Big Hole River

Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks cited four people for driving their side-by-sides, or off road vehicles, through an area of the Big Hole River that is a common spawning ground for ...
The Montana Standard

Initial trout population estimates on Big Hole River 'encouraging'

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 ...
The Montana Standard

FWP re-opens a section of the Big Hole River to fishing

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has announced that the full fishing closure on Section 1 of the Big Hole River, which is from Saginaw Bridge on Skinner Meadows Road to the confluence with the North ...