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 ...

LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River recreational smelt dip-fishing season kicked off Wednesday almost totally without its two most important elements: smelt and people dipping for them. Each year for ...

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 caught ...

Mar. 12—Anglers from across the Pacific Northwest took to the banks of the Cowlitz River on Wednesday, March 12, for the opening of the state's brief smelt dipping season. All it took was a few empty ...

Washington will allow smelt dipping Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Cowlitz River. Commercial and test fisheries yielded high enough numbers to support at least a one-day dip and perhaps more ...

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office seized approximately 2,500 pounds of illegally harvested smelt last Thursday during a joint poaching enforcement operation with Oregon State Police on the Sandy ...

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 ...