About 100 fish writhed in a blue bucket by his side. The eulachon smelt fishery is truly a wonder, tugging the imagination back to the days when, legend has it, people could walk across Oregon’s ...

The fish were confiscated during the single-day legal smelt dipping season on March 27, 2025 — a rare opportunity that drew large crowds to the riverbank between the Sandy River’s mouth and ...

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The changes to the fish consumption guidelines affect about 44 water bodies in 10 counties, in both the Twin Cities and ...

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 ...

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of smelt, which equates to more than 12,000 individual fish. Photo courtesy Multnomah County Sheriff's Office A special 7-hour fishing season in Oregon brought chaos ...

Lake Superior continues to host many anglers in many areas of the lake. Coho salmon are still going strong with trolling ...

The Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that no one caught any fish and no one received any license-related citations during the season, which ran from Feb. 5 to March 22. “Smelt are ...