Surface-water temperatures at area reservoirs were in the 70s just a few weeks ago, and are starting to drop into mid-60s at most area reservoirs and even dipping into the high 50s at Wild Horse. With ...

Fishing elegantly-dressed dry flies on the surface is the most glamorized way to take trout. But if you want to score on jumbo fish, tie on a streamer. Streamers will fool all species of trout and in ...

One of Montana's legendary trout flies, the girdle bug, was designed to imitate a large stonefly nymph, or "hellgrammite," as the local anglers on the Big Hole River call the big aquatic insects. Lost ...

Canyon Ferry: Shore fishing for rainbows is beginning to slow up a bit as the fish are starting to move offshore. Rainbows are being caught from shore on the north end between the Outhouse, Shannon ...

All of the lowland lakes that are open to fishing are free of ice, but some lakes north of Spokane had light ice coverings early in the week which should be gone by the weekend. Amber Lake has been ...

The “Egg-Sucking Leech” has proven to be a very effective fly pattern for anglers targeting steelhead in the Chautauqua County Lake Erie tributaries. Photo courtesy of FleegersFlies.com The winter ...

For many anglers, the arrival of winter ushers in a season of rest and recovery. But for those of us who pursue steelhead, winter is not the time for taking a break. It’s a time to spend long days on ...

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Last week did not see a lot of change in the Black Hills area fishing scene, as weather conditions settled to some extent. And, fortunately for the area, the heavy, flood producing rainfalls were in ...