If you’re planning a fishing trip this weekend, you need to know hoot owl restrictions begin this afternoon at 2:00 on several streams in southwest Montana. Hoot owl restrictions mean no fishing from 2:00 each afternoon until midnight each day. This is to protect fish that are at risk because of low stream flows and higher water temperatures.
Hoot owl restriction hours are in effect for all of Silver Bow Creek, the Upper Bitterroot down to Hamilton, the Upper Clark Fork downstream to the mouth of the Blackfoot River. Upper Rock Creek is in hoot owl restrictions to the mouth of Stoney Creek.
