Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks released an overview Wednesday of field research during 2025 of trout populations in the Big ...

A golden stonefly nymph, captured in the Big Hole River, is pictured on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (Jordan Hansen / Daily Montanan) TWIN BRIDGES – Brian Wheeler has spent a fair bit of the last six years ...

DILLON, Mont. — The fishing closure on the Big Hole River, stretching from the North Fork of the Big Hole River to Dickie Bridge, has been lifted due to improved water flows. This section is now the ...

HELENA, Mont. — Cooler temperatures have led to the lifting of hoot-owl fishing restrictions on the Lower Madison River and angling closures on Sections 3 and 4 of the Big Hole River, effective ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 Fork ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A section of the low and slow Big Hole River between the East Bank Recreation site and Divide ...

FWP ordered a fishing ban on the entire Big Hole and Jefferson rivers due to low flows and high water temperatures on August 22. Suspect in Minneapolis school shooting identified Donald Trump Nobel ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks announced Wednesday that improved flows on the Big Hole River led the agency to reopen for fishing the stretch of river from the North Fork of the Big Hole to Dickie ...

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.