Do you remember when you could fish for, and harvest large bull trout in the Flathead River? Remember when a 20-inch westslope cutthroat wasn’t a rarity? Most folks don’t, but it wasn’t all that long ago. In the 1970s and 1980s, river anglers harvested 6,000 to 7,000 bull trout...

Our local native trout, bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout, were doing just fine until lake trout populations exploded in Flathead Lake due to the misguided introduction of Mysis shrimp.  Large runs of adfluvial  cutts and bulls would head up river every spring to spawn.  Several years later the...

Hot Digity! The new Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited Summer 2013 newsletter is out. Grab your copy today and get up to date on what’s happening in our chapter and the fish world of NW Montana. Get the real skinny on the Draft EIS by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai...

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FLATHEAD BULL TROUT AND WESTSLOPE CUTTROAT NEED YOUR HELP TODAY! The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are seeking comments on a draft environmental impact statement that evaluates options to benefit native trout by reducing lake trout numbers in Flathead Lake. Competition and predation from lake trout has resulted in...

As the number of native bull trout in the Flathead continues to wither, there seems to be a lot of selective memory loss happening among our local sportsmen. After talking about how important the trophy fishery for large bull trout used to be for Flathead Anglers, we heard back...

We received the following plea from the East Yellowstone TU Chapter for help in supporting the native fish restoration effort on Yellowstone Lake. Please look it over and send your comments. Your support can make the difference. The Yellowstone cutthroat trout (YCT) of Yellowstone Lake (YL) need your voice....

(From Montana Trout Unlimited) Please thank Governor Bullock for vetoing bad water bills and supporting important measures benefiting wild trout. Several water policy bills Montana TU spent much of the session trying to defeat or amend made it to Governor Steve Bullock’s desk. After thoughtful deliberation with state agency...

Montana FWP seems to have met with significant public opposition over their plan to suppress illegal walleye in Noxon Reservoir. In response, Region 1 said they “will most likely respond by drafting a new EA and providing more public inclusion.” Let’s make one thing perfectly clear; the population of...

Commentary from Montana Trout Unlimited Executive Director Bruce Farling During pretty much every Montana Legislature the mining industry comes in asking for special gifts. This session the industry wants the ability to trump water rights — all water rights, including very old, established rights for agricultural irrigation, hydropower, municipalities and...