Just like trout, regulations can vary based on district, so check your body of water for specific regulations before casting ...

HELENA - Longtime Missouri River fishing guide Pete Cardinal says the rainbow and brown trout in the river near Craig were as healthy as he's ever seen. And a report by the Montana Department of ...

“Best available science on the rivers supporting southwest Montana’s wild trout shows ... FWP staff tagged nearly 12,000 brown and rainbow trout in the Big Hole, Beaverhead, Ruby and Madison ...

Otoliths. Natal origins. Necrosis. Moribund. These scientific terms and many others appear in a 52-page interim report from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks evaluating the health, life cycles and ...

(Jacob W. Frank/NPS) (CN) — The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to swap rainbow trout with Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness violates federal wilderness laws, ...

Jul. 16—Most rainbow trout swimming in Montana's waters are not native to the state — with the singular exception of the redband trout in the Kootenai drainage. While common throughout most of Montana ...

The Blackfoot River in western Montana has always been good for fishing trout - rainbow, cutthroat, brown. Norman Maclean's novel "A River Runs Through It" immortalized the place. But this year ...

Officials have no way to confirm Missouri River water didn't enter an area of the adjacent Giant Springs Fish Hatchery where 450,000 rainbow ... trout, which are used to stock waters across Montana.

Spring electrofishing surveys show some rebounds in trout populations in regional rivers but numbers in many stretches of the Big Hole linger below long-term averages. Research continues as to why.