Last Wednesday my friends, Paul Dubas and Tina Krueger, floated the Bighorn River with me. It was a nice day with the air temperature eventually nudging up close to 70 degrees, but a strong southwest ...

Bighorn River — Current flows are 7,500 cfs with a water temp of 36 degrees. Soap Creek is kicking in quite a bit of dirty water, so stay river left after it dumps in just a couple of miles above ...

Loss of water is forcing young fish into the open water too soon, and the stock might not rebound The damage has been done to the trout in Montana's portion of the Bighorn River. Big questions remain, ...

One of Montana’s premier trout fishing streams, the Bighorn River, could be poised for an excellent season provided nothing “really weird” happens with spring runoff. “People might not catch as many ...

When Alex Falder reeled in a 15-inch trout on the Bighorn River on July 17, his guide was a bit surprised. “Man, that looks exactly like a cutthroat trout,” said Andy Elser of On The Fly Guiding, a ...

Bighorn River — The river is fishing incredibly well. Not a lot of topwater action. The fish are keying in on the nymphs and scuds. A size 12 or 14 scud in dark orange with a midge pupae pattern ...

Rainbow and brown trout populations on the Bighorn River below Yellowtail Dam are growing and healthy. That’s good news for anglers and outfitters who saw populations on the stream drop after three ...

BILLINGS — Rainbow and brown trout numbers are down in the upper portion of the world-renowned Bighorn River trout fishery this fall, based on recent Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks ...

You will find the best fishing spots at the tailwater stretch of the Bighorn River. This area is famous for heavy hatches that bring the trout right up to the surface, and there is a sizable amount of ...

The section of the river below the dam, between Three Mile and Bighorn fishing access sites, contained more than 4,300 fish 8 inches and larger per mile in the fall of 2015, according to Mike Ruggles, ...

As Brad Judy stood at the head of a side channel of the Bighorn River fly-fishing for trout Wednesday, he looked downstream and saw the water had begun to boil with fish. "I could literally see the ...