Montana is home to one of the few remaining self-sustaining and northernmost populations of paddlefish in the world.

The Yellowstone and lower Missouri fishing season is set ... on the Missouri River above Fort Peck and on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers below the dam. Anglers who have paddlefish tags ...

The lakes of the US are often thought of as great holiday destinations. All of them provide a combination of hiking, boating, ...

The paddlefish season in Montana is a big deal for anglers, drawing folks from all over to snag these prehistoric giants from the state’s iconic rivers. For 2025, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks ( ...

MILES CITY - The 2025 paddlefishing season begins Thursday, May 15 in the yellow and green tag areas. That first day will be a catch-and-release day for the yellow tag area on the lower Yellowstone ...

A notable change this year involves the green tag area, which now includes the Missouri River downstream of Fort Peck Dam. Anglers can snag paddlefish ... service will be available at the Intake ...

Fort Peck Reservoir has been holding steady at an elevation around 2,227 feet, which is 7 feet below full at the huge reservoir.

The increased flows out of Fort Peck Dam will drop the reservoir level almost 2 more feet. Runoff in the upper Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, was 700,000 acre-feet during November ...

When a Fort Peck Housing Authority employee told Lisa Strauser she’d been approved to receive assistance to help pay her homeowner’s insurance and property taxes, Strauser was relieved.

When the famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White made her iconic 1936 Life magazine cover shot of the still-under-construction spillway at Fort Peck Dam – the very first cover of the magazine ...

POPLAR — On a reservation ravaged by methamphetamine abuse, the Fort Peck Tribal Council recently took a very unpopular vote. The council shot down a proposed law that would have created more ...