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

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.

Smelt fishing on the Cowlitz River can be feast or famine. The state didn’t open recreational smelt fishing on the river in 2018 or 2019. One-day fisheries occurred in 2020 to 2022, but 2023 was ...

Like so many fish people associate with the Great Lakes, the rainbow smelt is an invasive species. The approximately 6-inch fish is native to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but moves into ...

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.

Because the smelt might be a stupid little fish, but if he gives up on them, he’s giving up on everything. This story was originally published August 10, 2022 at 5:00 AM. Ariane Lange.

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, ...

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.

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 ...