Monday May 19, 2025
NBC Montana —
Where’s the fish?
It’s the question everyone has asked from expert biologists to amateur fisherman about the Upper Clark Fork between Warm Springs and Drummond during the last decade.
The most notable decline is at a monitoring site near Warm Springs, And this past week, around 50 people gathered in Deer Lodge at an event hosted by the Clark Fork River Technical Assistance Committee to try and figure out the mystery.
“Starting in 2015, that’s when you see the big dramatic decline there. We’ve averaged over the last decade, about 170 fish per mile in that region,” said Caleb Uerling, Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Fisheries Biologist, citing data from the pH Shack near Warm Springs.