As you'd expect, it takes a school of smelt to feed a crowd. Cleaning a bunch of tiny fish can be a tedious, time-consuming task. To make the process fast and easy, try this three-step technique.

TROUTDALE, Ore. - Something slimy and scaly took over the Sandy River Sunday. Millions of them, actually. An enormous school of smelt is passing through the area for the first time in a decade.

When the full school of smelt comes in, it can be fished at all depths. The traditional New England meal is a breaded and fried smelt piled high on the plate.

Smelt are small, six- to 10-inch-long, salmon-like fish that migrate annually up the rivers of Northwest Alaska to spawn, including the Buckland River. Smelt usually start their journey about a ...

With smelt numbers very low in Lake Michigan and public access now prohibited to a traditional fishing spot, Milwaukee-area smelt fishermen traveled to Lake Superior and found good success and ...

For 61 years the Darwin Rod and Gun Club has continued a tradition of serving up baskets of a small species of fish with a unique taste at its annual fish fry. As the fish fry season gears up ...

The smelt parade is a celebration of the smelt run, when the fish would make their season visit to the North Shore. It’s also a sign that spring is here and for the arrival of summer.

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a one-day poaching sting on the Sandy River. The fish were confiscated during Oregon’s rare smelt dipping season and donated to ...