{"id":20491,"date":"2025-07-19T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20491\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:58:09","slug":"full-fishing-close-to-start-tomorrow-in-southwestern-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20491\/","title":{"rendered":"Full fishing close to start tomorrow in southwestern Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA, Mont. \u2014 Starting Saturday a full fishing closure will be in place on the Big Hole River from Saginaw Bridge on Skinner Meadows Road to the junction with North Fork of the Big Hole River.<\/p>\n<p>The entire river downstream of the North Fork of the Big Hole river restriction is still in place.<\/p>\n<p>Hoot-owl restrictions remain in place from 2 p.m. to midnight every day and will stay in effect until conditions improve<\/p>\n<p>These restrictions are put in place to help protect fish from disease and death as water temperatures get warmer.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about restrictions or areas where fishing is allowed, click <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffwp.mt.gov%2Fnews%2Fcurrent-closures-restrictions%2Fwaterbody-closures&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csward%40sbgtv.com%7Cd0e0705141e3443caf7808ddc63f0896%7C897dbc0dc02d43479a713e589c67f8aa%7C0%7C0%7C638884696205670176%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Tlqnwzrl%2FNZT5uvc1c1ix6%2BLT59LeBwfWhO5f7bQtPM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffwp.mt.gov%2Fnews%2Fcurrent-closures-restrictions%2Fwaterbody-closures&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csward%40sbgtv.com%7Cd0e0705141e3443caf7808ddc63f0896%7C897dbc0dc02d43479a713e589c67f8aa%7C0%7C0%7C638884696205670176%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Tlqnwzrl%2FNZT5uvc1c1ix6%2BLT59LeBwfWhO5f7bQtPM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELENA, Mont. \u2014 Starting Saturday a full fishing closure will be in place on the Big Hole River&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[18581,192,18580,18585,18584,18587,18583,79,18582,18586],"class_list":["post-20491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-big-hole-river","tag-environment","tag-fishing-closure","tag-hoot-owl-restrictions","tag-north-fork","tag-protect-fish","tag-saginaw-bridge","tag-science","tag-southwestern-montana","tag-water-temperatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}