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.

With salmon fishing barred off the California coast for two years, fishermen have been running historic boat tours, party cruises, and scattering the ashes of the deceased to try to stay afloat.

The WDFW said in a press release that the “Salmon Creek Hatchery steelhead program is replacing early returning winter ...

On Thursday, WDFW approved dipping on Wednesday and March 22 — the last day of the season. Saturday's dipnetting is also ...

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Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, March 15.

I am right-handed, but my right arm was holding Haley. So I reached up to catch the mug with my left arm. The Krewe of Bacchus rolls through the streets of New Orleans on Sunday, March 2 ...

Total catch this winter: 2 Ib ... A terrific breeder (the female casts more than 20,000 eggs), the smelt fed on insect larvae, other fish and sometimes its own young. Green Bay fishermen began ...

As Jang Dong-min and his child embarked on ice fishing, they were preoccupied with catching smelt. The fishing method using a float was one that could be enjoyed without significant skill.

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Wide-eyed bird appreciators raised their binoculars to the sky on Portland’s Sauvie Island Sunday morning to catch ever-changing scenes of wintering birds and early spring migration. Leading ...

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