Smelt! Yup, their passage up the lower Columbia has been marked by packs of sea lions and, more recently, by Washington’s ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced plans today for the 2025 halibut fishing season, which will ...

Many local restaurants offer Friday fish specials if you prefer a more seated and served experience. Check out the menus at ...

Throughout the centuries, herring was the fish available to those ... In the Great Lakes area, that means perch, walleye, bluegill and smelt. Cod and haddock are on the menu in upstate New York ...

As noted above, bluegills and threadfin shad are more commonly eaten by bass across southern fisheries, while goby, perch, and smelt are the ... full of blueback herring, you can use topwater ...

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.

Thousands of participants were expected to come out for smelt dipping this week to kick off the first recreational fishery of the season. But Wednesday got off to a slow start, with around 35 ...

Dozens of fishermen from Oregon and Washington test their luck during a one-day chance for smelt dipping on the Cowlitz River on Tuesday afternoon. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Smelt dipping will ...

A federal decision to increase herring quotas in B.C. is facing pushback from critics who say increased fishing could threaten the return of a species that forms the base of the marine food chain.