Although not a species that could rightfully plaster a "Montana Native" sticker on its vehicle, few fish in Montana hold the interest of the angling public like the kokanee. Kokanee are salmon. They ...

Labor Day found me without a fishing partner due to illness, so I headed to Ririe Reservoir to observe how the fishing was going for both man and birds. Before the sun came up, the sky was busier than ...

When a million kokanee were flushed out of Green Peter Reservoir in 2023, immediately killing tens of thousands of the fish, it was one of the first and most striking impacts of a controversial ...

For the past two weeks, my friend, Mike Bruton, has taken me kokanee fishing on Ririe Reservoir while I continue to recuperate from a heart attack. The fishing for kokanee continues to get more ...