Smelt are bite-sized, mild-flavored fish that are best served lightly dredged and deep-fried. Before you fry them, make sure ...

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.

SAN DIEGO -- With bulging eyes and giant webbed feet, the intrepid young divers press forth, delving deeper into a realm both mysterious and new. A large school of smelt passes to their left. A ...

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 ...

It’s that time of year for old school rainbow smelt fries, and Friday, the South Elgin Lions Club will be hosting its sixth annual event — a gathering rarer to find in these parts, perhaps in ...

They caught smelt in their nets all up and down the Pacific coast. Jack Napiontek wrote that the December photo brought back memories of times he went smelt dipping with his grandfather. He attended ...

WOODINVILLE -- We learned in high school that all life forms are carbon-based, and on a recent weekend we managed to reduce about 40 fat smelt to their molecular base.

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 ...