Officials with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks still don’t know how a nonnative brown trout ended up in ...

And to protect spawning brown trout, Montana officials have decided to halt fishing two weeks earlier than usual, on Sept. 30, for portions of the Big Hole, Ruby and Beaverhead rivers.

When Brian Wheeler set out to install water quality monitoring equipment in the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana on ...

Bull trout – which are native to the Columbia River Basin and are only found west of the Continental Divide in Montana – need clear, cold mountain waters to spawn and require clean gravel beds ...

And Montana's a wild trout state. And what that means is we don't stock into our rivers and streams. ... - Well, as a common theme of the night, we've had a lot of moisture.

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 ...

When Missoula angler Jake Lee netted the trout on Rock Creek, it took him a moment to realize what he’d caught. “It’s almost like you can’t believe your eyes, but it was a tiger trout with ...

As Western Montana's blue-ribbon trout waters warm due to climate change, anglers are increasingly wrestling with the ethics of their sport. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

HELENA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries staff have noticed a declining number of bull trout spawning nests in western Montana. Trends show the spawning nests, or redds, have ...