Few anglers would argue with the idea that rainbow, brown, and brook trout are the best-known, most widespread, and most sought-after trout in North America. But while cutthroat trout might not get ...

If you’ve had the chance to spend an extended amount of time fishing a single Rocky Mountain freestone river, you may have noticed an interesting pattern: trout tend to partition the river by species.

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 ...

My favorite time to bird-watch is when I am fly fishing on a trout stream. It is not surprising to see birds there as some have the same diet as trout — mayflies and other aquatic insects. Trout eat ...

Montana’s Clark Fork River only flows through Idaho briefly before it spills into Lake Pend Oreille. That short stretch of river beckoned Daniel Whitesitt and his buddy Caleb Bravard on April 13, and ...

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A plan to increase the range of native cutthroat trout in the San Juan Mountains has accomplished a critical step with the recent stocking of 250 cutthroat trout in Woods Lake southwest of Telluride.

In July of 2021, Montana fly fishing guide Zach Pleshar emailed clients, warning of potentially difficult drought-like conditions on the Yellowstone River: low water and rising water temperatures – a ...