Electrofishing sampling of trout populations in the Big Hole, Beaverhead and Ruby rivers reveals modest uptick in numbers and encouraging presence of juvenile fish. However, numbers remain below ...

Yet Save Wild Trout insists its focus is working collaboratively with FWP, the Big Hole River Foundation, the Big Hole Watershed Committee, the fishing community and others, along with a scientist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Montana FWP released trout population estimates Monday from spring sampling on the Big Hole River. Brown trout increased in ...

"All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish." — Harold Blaisedell Hats off to the Montana FWP and Commission for adopting emergency fishing ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking for public input on a proposed conservation project in the Big Hole River drainage aimed at protecting native Westslope cutthroat trout.

There’s no wrong part of a river to fish a tube, though they shine in areas with slower current where the bottom is made up ...

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 ...