TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced full fishing closures will take effect starting Friday for a section of the lower Big Hole River. The closure is an 18-mile area that ...

This small Montana mountain town serves as a gateway to forested mountains for hiking and camping, to rivers for fishing and ...

Fellin has been vocal for years about his concerns regarding declining trout populations in the Big Hole River, the Beaverhead, the Jefferson and other rivers in the Jefferson River Basin. Population ...

Five stream gages sited along the Big Hole River registered “much below normal” flows for the date Tuesday. The gage at Mudd Creek in the upper river reported an all-time low flow. One close observer ...

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.

Fellin said the Big Hole River and many other blue-ribbon waterways face persistent pollution above allowable levels which, when mixed with warmer temperatures driven by climate change, are creating ...

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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 ...

Improved flows have allowed a section of the Big Hole River to be reopened to fishing. The reopened section extends for 26 miles from the river’s confluence with the North Fork of the Big Hole River ...

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 ...

On Aug. 2, the Big Hole Watershed Committee reported water temperatures in the river ranging from 71.6 degrees, in the section from Dickie Bridge to Maiden Rock, to 79.2 degrees from the Tony Schoonen ...