Montana’s trout are in trouble—populations are dropping, and diseased fish are showing up. Here’s what anglers need to know, how you can help, and how to win!
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is advising anglers that portions of the Big Hole, Beaverhead, Clark Fork, Madison, Ruby and Sun rivers, as well as the Jefferson River and Silver Bow Creek in their entirety, will be closed to all fishing daily from 2 p.m. to midnight, effective at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10. The restrictions will stay in effect until conditions improve.
Fishing in Yellowstone National Park comes with unique rules and regulations. If you catch three types of fish in certain areas the Park, you're required to kill them.
Are these "weird" Montana laws true? Montana has many urban legends about weird laws, like no married women fishing on Sundays, so I wanted to see if they were myth or truth!