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 little ...

TROUTDALE Ore. (KPTV) - On Thursday, hundreds of families and fishermen took to the banks of the Sandy River for the one-day recreational harvest of eulachon smelt. “The keys are to have a strong ...

Oregonians over 40 remember the fun of dipping nets into rivers alive with huge runs of eulachon smelt. Today, the tiny, mild-flavored fish is officially listed as "threatened," and their harvest is ...

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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. This ...

For the first time since 2015, people will be allowed to catch smelt on Oregon’s Sandy River. The season, such as it is, will run for seven hours on Thursday, March 30, and it was announced two days ...

Into the mid 1900s, Pacific smelt arrived in such abundance this time of year in Washington's Cowlitz River that tribal fishermen could rake them out of the water. This year, the smelt, or "eulachon," ...

Can the Northwest's huge runs of eulachon smelt be preserved? Oregonians over 40 remember the fun of dipping nets into rivers alive with huge runs of eulachon smelt. Today, the tiny, mild-flavored ...

It appears smelt are returning to the Columbia River and some tributaries in big numbers for a second straight winter, with sea lions gorging on the silvery fish Monday in the North Fork of the Lewis ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore.GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The Pacific smelt, a small silvery fish that was a staple of Northwest American Indian tribes when the Lewis and Clark expedition arrived, is getting federal ...

As smelt lovers await the fate on whether the Cowlitz River or any other places of the Columbia River will open for sport dip-netting, here is a look at some interesting data compiled by Joe Hymer, a ...