LANSING, MI — It turns out that rainbow smelt and some panfish in Michigan are not as highly contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’ as previously thought. This week, the Michigan Department of ...

Standing on the banks of the Sandy River, Oregon, at 11:45 on Thursday morning, parents, grandparents and kids jostled for a good spot and ready their nets. Below, in the clear water, thousands of ...

A smelt dip on the Cowlitz River brings about a festival atmosphere as folks gather to have fun, and hopefully end up with a mess of smelt. (Terry Otto for The Columbian) Smelt-dipping will return to ...

At 11:59 a.m. on Thursday, the anticipation was palpable on the banks of the Sandy River in Troutdale. Hundreds of people lined the river’s edge, dip nets at the ready, waiting for the first ...

Mar. 8—Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, ...

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 ...

A special 7-hour fishing season in Oregon brought chaos and a bit of lawlessness to the Sandy River on Thursday. As big pushes of tiny smelt worked their way upstream and into anglers’ dip nets, ...

A smelt dip on the Cowlitz River brings about a festival atmosphere as folks gather to have fun, and hopefully end up with a mess of smelt. (Terry Otto for The Columbian) RIDGEFIELD — There will be ...

A fisherman pulls a net to catch smelt on Lake Soyang, enshrouded in fog due to a cold wave, in Inje, Gangwon Province, ...