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FWP staff tagged nearly 12,000 brown and rainbow trout in the Big Hole, Beaverhead, Ruby and Madison rivers last year. To date, anglers have sent nearly 1,300 reports of catching the tagged trout, ...

HELENA, Mont. — New brown trout regulations were approved on Friday by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for the Big Hole and Beaverhead rivers, effective immediately. The regulations are meant ...

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Montana FWP jumped the gun on reopening the Big Hole with flows well below the 25th percentile and the current flows did not reach the reopening criteria established by the Big Hole Watershed ...

TWIN BRIDGES – Brian Wheeler has spent a fair bit of the last six years wearing waders in the middle of the Big Hole River documenting river conditions and collecting samples of macroinvertebrates.