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A dozen rivers — including the Madison, Gibbon and Firehole in Yellowstone National Park — are subject to the restrictions on afternoon fishing or all-out closures as biologists grapple with ...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has stocked a creek in the Big Hole watershed with Arctic grayling fingerlings. Critics say the stockings likely won't help grayling in the Big Hole.
WISDOM — When Montana State University graduate student Ben Triano stepped into a deep riffle in a tributary of the Big Hole River in late July and the water nearly brimmed his chest-waders, it ...
TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced the Jefferson River and additional sections of the Big Hole River will be closed to fishing starting Saturday.
The southwest regulations will affect the upper Jefferson River’s tributaries, including the Ruby, Big Hole and Beaverhead rivers. A five-year study is being conducted by Fish, Wildlife & Parks ...
WISE RIVER, Mont. — Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the cobble-and-boulder ...
Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks Region 3,⁠ which includes the Big Hole River, is only 12 percent of the state’s land area, but it provides more than a quarter of the state’s angling ...
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.
After historically low counts of trout were found in three popular stretches of the Big Hole River, people have begun rallying around the 153-mile freestone river in southwest Montana.