It took 29 years to top the Montana state record for an angler-caught chinook salmon at Fort Peck Reservoir. On Sunday, Bismarck, North Dakota, fisherman Greg Hauge reeled in a 32.05-pounder. The ...

FORT PECK, Mont. — There was a certain rhythm to Joe Bouroncle’s cadence. Fishing for lake trout on the Lower Big Dry Arm of the Fort Peck Reservoir on the east fork is a blast, especially for some ...

FORT PECK RESERVOIR — King salmon is not a species commonly associated with Montana, but after Jim Fauth reeled in a new state record on Aug. 8 — a 32.65-pounder that narrowly edged out the prior ...

Despite some heavy rainstorms in August, flows from Fort Peck Dam will be reduced from 9,500 cubic feet per second to 5,000 cfs this month as managers respond to persistent drought. The U.S. Army ...

Fort Peck Lake in northeast Montana is a sprawling reservoir that holds plenty of walleyes and smallmouth bass. And it’s where part-time fishing guide Josh Johnson caught the bronzeback of his dreams ...

Fort Peck Dam has bumped up its releases to 17,000 cubic feet per second as high inflows have pushed the reservoir level up 3 feet in two weeks, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks staff collected 574,229 chinook salmon eggs this fall from adult fish that were attempting to spawn in Fort Peck Reservoir. That didn’t beat the record of 610,230 eggs ...

Members of the Fort Peck Tribes took legal action in September against the Montana secretary of state and two counties alleging a lack of satellite election offices on the reservation caused voter ...

Texas Republicans unveiled a proposed congressional map that would remove Fort Bliss and the El Paso International Airport from U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar's District 16. The map, released Wednesday ...

FORT PECK (AP) -- About 110,000 chinook salmon died after the power went out for several hours at the state's new fish hatchery here. The outage happened during a June 17 storm. It stopped fresh water ...

FORT PECK RESERVOIR, Mont. – King salmon is not a species commonly associated with Montana, but after Jim Fauth reeled in a state record on Aug. 8 – a 32.65-pounder that narrowly edged out the prior ...