MISSOULA, Mont. — An angler has landed a new catch-and-release Idaho state recordWestslope cutthroat trout. Daniel Whitesitt of Post Falls, Idaho caught the lunker while fishing the Clark Fork Riverin ...

Full fishing closures at the mouth of some tributaries of the Clark Fork River took effect at midnight, July 23. Full fishing closures prohibit all fishing. Separately, "hoot-owl" restrictions took ...

The Clark Fork River at Superior, Montana (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan). While anglers flock to streams across the Clark Fork Basin for another fishing season, hardworking staff at ...

PABLO, Mont. — The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have issued a warning to all Tribal members to avoid consuming fish from the lower Clark Fork River, spanning from the Bitterroot River near ...

Aug. 2—Fishermen have been expecting the hoot owl fishing restrictions with this intense heat, but now there are also closures on the Clark Fork River. Full fishing closures prohibit all fishing. Hoot ...

Another set of fishing restrictions has been ordered on streams in western Montana as water levels drop and temperatures rise. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced this week that it was ordering ...

Duncan Adams Lee Newspapers Apr 3, 2025 Apr 3, 2025 WARM SPRINGS — Three fly fishermen tied tippets, affixed elk hair caddis flies, detoured around sickly green slickens and fought through streamside ...

Stimson Lumber Co. has donated approximately 9.5 acres of land to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks for a fishing access site on the Upper Clark Fork River 15 miles west of Drummond. Prior to the ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is lifting fishing restrictions immediately on the Clark Fork River. Water temperatures are holding below 70 degrees, and weather conditions have moderated enough that ...

From the tangled confluence with the Bitterroot River west of Missoula, to the Class-III and IV whitewater of Alberton Gorge, to the lengthy reservoirs behind dams at Thompson Falls, Noxon and Cabinet ...