We're back here on the saltwaters of Buzzards Bay. The winds were south-west all week, however today they have shifted and ...

“Smelt are naturally unpredictable, influenced by various factors including water conditions — and this season was no exception,” said WDFW spokesman Britton Ransford. “While the tentative ...

LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River smelt dipping season went out a lot like it started: without much happening. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that no one ...

“We don't really fully understand some of the migratory cues for smelt.” On social media, upset fishermen pointed to a prime suspect for the missing hooligans: increasing numbers of sea lion ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a joint poaching operation on the Sandy River, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office announced.

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office confiscated approximately 2,500 pounds of illegally harvested smelt last week, after a poaching prevention operation conducted with Oregon State Police.

Below, in the clear water, thousands of smelt streamed by, each one about 6 inches long. They spend their adult lives in the ocean, then return to their native stream to spawn and die. Little did ...

Whether the Columbia River’s eulachon smelt run will make its way into the Sandy River is always a crap shoot, but this year’s run appears to have waited for spring break. A pulse of the tasty ...

Kristy Phillips/USGS Share While prospects for smelt are not good, Ralph Tingley III, the biologist for the USGS Great Lakes Science Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, responsible for the annual ...