The allure of finding gold in Paradise Valley’s Mill Creek attracted placer miners to the stream as soon as the western ...

Anglers on the Kootenai River are asked to participate in a creel survey from June 1 to Oct. 15 of this year.The survey ...

“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 ...

(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, ...

Chinese aquaculture company Yantai Jinghai Marine Fisheries Co. plans to harvest 2,000 metric tons (MT) of Best Aquaculture ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.