Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Westslope cutthroat trout are native to the upper Madison River above Quake Lake and for various ...

Montana's Fish, Wildlife & Parks agency is launching an unorthodox initiative to protect and restore a recently uncovered population of a native fish species. The Daily Montanan reported that ...

Fisheries biologist Wayne Hadley surveyed streams scattered throughout the Elkhorn Mountains more than four decades ago. He determined that pure-strain populations of native westslope cutthroat trout ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — University of Montana graduate Colter Feuerstein conducted a study that analyzed westslope cutthroat trout and how genetic variation plays a role in conservation of threatened fish ...

BOISE, Idaho — Tight Lines 208 is dedicated to helping people become better anglers through education. The Cram Session is designed to give readers a crash course on a specific fish species or local ...

A fly fisherman in Idaho thought he snagged bottom until the line started moving, indicating a hooked a fish. Daniel Whitesitt was fishing with a friend in a remote area on the Clark Fork River in ...

Saving a special species is not easy. Westslope cutthroat trout only occupy about 2.3% of their historic habitat within the Smith River watershed where nonnative brook, brown, rainbow and Yellowstone ...

According to the American Fisheries Society, the west-slope cutthhroat trout can be identified by its silvery or greenish color. It also tends to have more small spots by the tail and none by the ...

Fisheries biologist Wayne Hadley surveyed streams scattered throughout the Elkhorn Mountains more than four decades ago. He determined that pure-strain populations of native westslope cutthroat trout ...