WISE RIVER, Mont. – Since the Fellin family founded the Big Hole Lodge in the 1980s to take people fly fishing on the Big Hole River, they have seen significant changes to the ...

On many iconic trout streams, experts say released fish aren't thriving. Yet anglers oppose stocking these blue-ribbon waters ...

I couldn’t, in good conscience, make the claim that Eastern fly fishermen are better at catching trout than Western fly anglers. When you really break it down, you can either present a nymph, dry, or ...

If you’ve ever stood on the bank of a river with a fly rod, stared at the water, and wondered, ‘Where the hell do I start?’, you’re not alone. When you’re just getting started trout fishing, even ...

WISE RIVER, Mont. — The fly-fishing community is stepping up and launching a campaign to address the wild trout population decline in southwest Montana. The Save Wild Trout campaign consists of ...

Fishing an alpine stream in northwestern Colorado. / Photo by Jasper Taback As the summer months approach, dreams of small stream trout fishing resurface. In most parts of the country, alpine streams ...

Tom Rosenbauer reached down to his laptop, and a picture of a tiny cascade of water splashing down stones appeared on the projector screen. “Would you stop and fish a stream that small?” he asked the ...

At the conclusion of a recent presentation by Save Wild Trout on their monitoring efforts in Montana's Jefferson River Basin, the mood in the community room at Helena’s Lewis and Clark Public Library ...

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 ...

This vast Idaho national forest is close enough to Yellowstone and Grand Teton to share their forest and mountain beauty but ...

This story, “It Takes a Grampus,” appeared in the August 1950 issue of Outdoor Life. Did you ever buck a first-class, big­ scale, full-blown jinx in a choice piece of trout country? Ever fish streams ...