The author sets out on a canoe trip with the Colemans to trout fish the wild and winding Smith River in Montana.

Stories in this Regional News Roundup are excerpted from weekly newspapers from around the region. This is part two, with part one having appeared in Saturday’s Tribune.

The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks passed a "hoot owl" restriction, or a ban on sport fishing after 2 p.m., ...

Yes, I love finding something neat and interesting on any of my Times News walks or hikes, but seeing a new bird for the year ...

Hoot-owl restrictions will take effect at 2 p.m. on Friday, July 11, on several streams and rivers in Southwest Montana.

Hoot-owl restrictions will take effect on portions of the Bitterroot and Clark Fork rivers on Friday as well as several ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is instituting new hoot-owl restrictions on rivers in the southwest Montana beginning Friday ...

FWP institutes angling restrictions when streamflows drop below critical levels for fish, when water quality is diminished or ...

Water will once again be released from Silver Lake to bolster Warm Springs Creek and the upper Clark Fork River.

Montana's new water law aims to clear a backlog of permits while fishing restrictions tighten in Western rivers.

A new report suggests Montana’s drought could deepen significantly this summer. Already, 60 percent of Montana is in moderate ...

The water is clear, summer is in full swing, and flotillas of rafts, tubes, and drift boats are following the slow current of rivers all over southwest Montana. With summer ...