Montana Catch Cards are Catching on with Bull Trout Fishermen
by TBC Press on 04/21/17
Between 2004 and 2016 the Montana Catch Card Program allowed catch and release fishing for Bull Trout with some limited angler harvest of Bull Trout (generally 2 per angler per year, in the Reservoirs only) from those two drainages. FWP issued over 16,000 catch cards on Hungry Horse Reservoir and the South Fork and 15,000 on Lake Koocanusa. Today, after 13 years, we can report that program has been an outstanding success. Anglers participating in the free Catch Card program have caught over... READ MORE
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