We're out here with the whole team using the American Smelt and jerking / cranking them for stripers. And guess what? First ...

smelt-fishing in maine; the army of sportsmen encamped on the ice.the method of catching the delicatelittle fish--a village of smeltfishers flying before a gale. Share full article Dec. 24, 1883 ...

PROFITABLE SMELT FISHING. Share full article. Dec. 19, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 19, 1887, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River recreational smelt dip-fishing season kicked off Wednesday almost totally without its two most important elements: smelt and people dipping for them.

This year’s Cowlitz River recreational smelt dip-fishing season kicked off Wednesday almost totally without its two most important elements: smelt and people dipping for them. Each year for ...

Related: 2,500 pounds of smelt seized from poachers along the Sandy River Eulachon smelt have a long history with Native American tribes. They’re sometimes called “salvation fish,” because ...

Longfin smelt are the sixth fish species in the bay estuary to be added to the federal endangered species list. The fish were listed by the state as threatened in 2009.

Smelt are small, tasty fish harvested by the bucket load, either by dipping nets in streams during spring spawn or hook-and-line through the ice. They aren’t native to the Great Lakes, ...

The state added two more smelt-fishing mornings a week later. Still, no smelt arrived. When I interviewed Bill Iyall, the fishery had begun, but the smelt were still missing in action.

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 ...