In response to record-low bull trout spawning nests in the South Fork of the Flathead River and some of its tributaries, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission last week adopted new closures in ...

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks will likely curtail the only legal bull trout river fishery in the state next season. At its Nov. 12 meeting the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will take up ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission decided to approve four additional protections for bull trout in the Hungry Horse Reservoir and the South Fork of the Flathead River. The new ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission recently approved changes it says will add protections for bull trout in northwest Montana as officials report seeing record low numbers of spawning nests, ...

Forest fire blackened two of the most popular backcountry campsites and boat accesses to the South Fork of the Flathead River in 2015, but that hasn't diminished the drainage's popularity. The Meadow ...

In what sounds as tangled as a spilled tackle box, a free punch-card program has allowed a federally threatened fish species to remain legally catchable for Montana anglers. “In most waters in western ...

Bull trout redd counts in the Flathead region varied widely this fall, according to surveys by Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists. The Flathead count is an index of spawners migrating upstream from ...

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 ...

Authorities say brothers Zack and Travis Boughton of Missoula, owners of Montana Wild, made more than 2,200 videos from a 2013 fishing trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness and South Fork of the ...

The South Fork of the Flathead is the only river in Montana where anglers can target bull trout, a native species on the Endangered Species List. Loni Anderson's cause of death revealed 'Vote him out!

Jul. 23—In an unprecedented decision, state officials have placed fishing restrictions on the North Fork Flathead River due to record water temperatures and dropping flows. The Montana Fish, Wildlife ...

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