Catfish, striped bass, and walleyes are just a few fish widely known to hunt nocturnally. It’s not uncommon for anglers to wait until the sun sets to get after them, especially considering the bigger ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — In the early season, when the rivers are still running high and cool from snowmelt, KynsLee Scott loves trout fishing. As a fishing guide and conservationist, her life revolves ...

For years, I’ve tried to be extra careful if fishing trout on hot summer days, to be on the stream around sunrise and leaving when the water temperature reaches the mid-60s. I was confident, almost ...

The fuss and fuming focused on trout populations declining since 2011 in the nationally acclaimed Big Hole River. In May 2023, more than 30 fishing outfitters and guides in Montana beseeched Gov. Greg ...

WARM SPRINGS — Three fly fishermen tied tippets, affixed elk hair caddis flies, detoured around sickly green slickens and fought through streamside willows thicker than the clouds obscuring nearby ...

Catch-and-release angling is a practice I pioneered in my youth. Whether targeting bass, bluegills or trout, catch-and-release is a common act performed by all anglers. I learned as a young kid around ...

I’ll fess up. Nothing is more blood-pressure raising to me than pinning a big trout on an itty-bitty dry fly. Scoring the take is the fun part, no doubt, but whenever I’m trying to feed a hefty brown ...