A golden stonefly nymph, captured in the Big Hole River, is pictured on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (Jordan Hansen / Daily Montanan) TWIN BRIDGES – Brian Wheeler has spent a fair bit of the last six years ...

The fishing closure on Section 1 of the Big Hole River has been lifted. This section, from Saginaw Bridge on Skinner Meadows ...

Duncan Adams Lee Newspapers May 1, 2025 May 1, 2025 BUTTE — Imagine a basketball-cradling Danny DeVito standing atop a stack of Arctic grayling studies, lawsuits, op-eds and strategies. The 4-foot-10 ...

DILLON, Mont. — The entire Big Hole River is about to be under major fishing restrictions. Starting Thursday, the entirety of the popular fishery will be under hoot owl restrictions, meaning fishing ...

The Upper Missouri Waterkeeper and the Big Hole River Foundation have filed a petition with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality requesting an impaired waterway designation tied to ...

A large open hole is seen in the Kuskokwim River in front of the community of Akiak on Nov. 18, 2024. (Courtesy Mark Leary/Bethel Search and Rescue) While the Kuskokwim River is starting to freeze, ...

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.