WMTW photojournalist Kevin Fowler captured video of smelt heading upstream to spawn, as well as a couple of other creatures ...

This will prevent the smelt from getting back into the lake and will make good daylight fishing. The stream will be patrolled day and night during this run to see the regulations are observed.

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 ...

So, if you are into the annual smelt run, I would start to get ready for that. People fish for smelt in Lake Superior at the mouth of the Lester River on May 9, 2023, in Duluth. Stream angling has ...

Whitaker said he remembers fishing along the Sandy River in the 1980s when the smelt run was enormous. But, he said, numbers started declining. “Everybody was afraid that it had stopped forever ...

For my first time this spring, I was excited to take part in one of the oldest fishing traditions of the Columbia River Basin: eulachon smelt dipping. But alas, after a disappointing three hours ...

According to the most recent work by the USGS, prey fish numbers in Lake Michigan look slightly better, well, not so much with smelt.

A late, strong showing of smelt are in the Sandy River, allowing approval of a one-day dipping season Thursday, from noon to 7 p.m. Unlike traditional all-comers dipping seasons, smelt are now ...

Eulachon smelt were listed under the Endangered Species ... because they come at the end of winter, when food supplies run low. “Some of the best food they have at that time of the year ...