Nicknamed the "French fry of the lake," smelt are a bite-sized ... liquid called milt in male fish and in females, there will be yellow eggs, called roe. If you're close to a sink and would ...

It’s hard to say if the low dipper turnout Wednesday was because of rainy weather, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife’s new approach or the fact that smelt hadn’t yet made it into ...

(Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Smelt dipping will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday ...