Along this pebbly beach off Highway 101, a wilderness by the ocean, lies Washington’s most scenic surf-smelt dip-netting spot. Sure, there are calmer spots around Puget Sound, but for a weekend ...

Pacific smelt, or eulachon, once swarmed from the ocean up the Columbia, Cowlitz, Lewis and Sandy rivers in massive spring migrations. But their numbers are at or near historical lows. The fish is ...

However, scientist report they expect the ocean patterns to switch to an El Niño pattern this year, which Heironimus said is not optimal for smelt. “When that happens, survival drops off pretty ...

Hatchery salmon smolts are implanted with tiny wire tags that scientists can track out into the ocean. But smelt spawn out of sight at the bottoms of rivers and don't reach hatcheries - and their ...

Ocean-going smelt enter our tidal waters as early as November and December. Anglers get serious about smelting in January and can fish for them into March. Fishing can be done from a pop-up ice ...

State officials released a list of projects to protect Delta smelt. One of them, ... The plan also calls for 250,000 acre-feet to be released to the Pacific Ocean next summer.

Smelts are also caught with tiny hooks under the ice. Ice fishermen set up many hooks together, and you can pull up 5-10 ...

The entire Maine coast once came alive with smelt runs as millions of silvery fish left the ocean each spring and raced up more than 300 rivers to spawn.