Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during Idaho’s spring chinook fishing season. For the tribe, ...

LEWISTON – The Clearwater River is setting up for a fun season of steelhead fishing, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The river that is known for its strain of big, rod-bending ...

Spey anglers, those who prefer two-handed fly rods, are having a good run of late on Idaho's Clearwater River. Kyriacos Panayiotou, of McCall, landed a 41-inch steelhead while swinging flies Oct. 6.

LEWISTON – Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the 2023 spring chinook fishing season. For ...

Even on the best days, steelhead fishing is usually a game of long odds. But for those anglers willing to put in the work, you might just have a chance to experience something magical. In the early ...

Jun. 1—By the time you are reading this, the spring chinook fishery on the lower end of the Clearwater River may be fading. It is the first day of June and the tail of the run should start to get ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Idaho Fish and Game is asking for the public's help in catching steelhead for its localized broodstock program on the South Fork Clearwater River. Since 2010, the agency has has ...

OROFINO, Idaho – Early Wednesday morning, staff at the Clearwater Fish Hatchery discovered an oily sheen in the fish raceways. The affected area holds over 6 million young steelhead and salmon smolts ...

Idaho will slash steelhead bag limits on the Clearwater River and its tributaries this fall in an attempt to make sure hatcheries meet spawning goals despite a dismal return of B-run fish. Anglers ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has increased the daily and possession limits for chinook on parts of the Clearwater River. The new limits allow a daily limit of four chinook, two ...

SPOKANE, Wash.-- A conservation group has named an Inland Northwest river as one of the 10 most endangered in the United States. American Rivers ranks the Clearwater River and its tributaries in Idaho ...