The entire Big Hole River is about to be under major fishing restrictions.Starting Thursday, the entirety of the popular ...

HELENA, Mont. — Starting Saturday a full fishing closure will be in place on the Big Hole River from Saginaw Bridge on Skinner Meadows Road to the junction with North Fork of the Big Hole River. The ...

Montana officials have denied a petition asking the state to designate the Big Hole River as "impaired" by pollution. Two conservation groups collected data over five years and found levels of ...

Flows on the Big Hole River are well below normal due to hot temperatures, rapid snowmelt and meager precipitation. The low flows could lead to fishing restrictions earlier than usual.

Two river watchdog groups insist the Big Hole River needs a pollution fix and have called on the state’s environmental agency to make that happen. The Upper Missouri Waterkeeper and the Big Hole ...

Author Pat Munday once referred to the Big Hole River as “Montana’s Last Best River.” And it's a river that's threatened by climate change, among other issues.

Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! WISDOM, Mont. Smart Big Hole anglers will wear a hard hat along with their waders. The alternative is taking a beaning from the thumb-sized flies that you ...

Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks Region 3,⁠ which includes the Big Hole River, is only 12 percent of the state’s land area, but it provides more than a quarter of the state’s angling ...

I’ll never forget the first time I met the Big Hole River. The relationship started on one of those crisp Montana autumn days, cobalt blue skies with the cottonwoods dressed in lemon sequins ...

The Big Hole River’s trout population is still in decline. Conditions appear dire as ever and the worst seems yet to come. Experts around southwest Montana say that, among the many factors at ...