We're so happy to be back out on the ice. Today we're out here fishing for smelts using tiny Stingnose Jigging Spoons to jig ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) – Washington state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife opened up a highly anticipated one-day season for smelt fishing on the lower Cowlitz River – but maybe no one told the smelt.

KELSO -- Sam Wright of Olympia finds it hard to believe that the once-abundant smelt runs of the Cowlitz River are down to nearly nothing. The oily 6-inch fish once swarmed so thick that a single dip ...

Commercial fishermen were catching smelt in their nets in the Duluth harbor this past week, but the run had not begun in earnest either along Park Point or in North Shore streams, according to reports ...

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 ...

YEARS AGO it was a foregone conclusion that we'd be able to get out on the ice on Great Bay and catch some smelt. But now with the slowly rising water levels and the warming of the climate, most years ...

Commercial fishermen are catching smelt in their nets in the Duluth harbor, but the run has not begun either along Park Point or in North Shore streams, according to reports Wednesday. The Lake ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- American Legion Post 82 in Port Washington, Wis., stands along Lake Michigan, a beacon for big-eating Midwesterners this time of year as members get ready to host the post's 57th ...

Here’s how fishing looks this week in the Northwest Lower Peninsula, Northeast Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula, according to the latest report from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Feb. 16—Crowds flocked to the Cowlitz River on Thursday morning as smelt-dipping returned after the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved a one-day recreational fishery. A ...