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 ...

Although surf smelt can be found year-around at various places in Puget Sound, winter is the traditional time to bundle up the family and head for La Conner, Cornet Bay or Oak Harbor marina for a ...

Smelt jiggers have been scoring pretty well recently at the Oak Harbor Marina, according to Mike Chamberlain at Ted’s Sport Center in Lynnwood. The time to be there, Chamberlain said, is during the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. There are a number of lakes in the state of Maine that have Jack Smelts, a ...

LA CONNER — Bobbing the jig on his fishing line up and down in the water, 17-year-old Avery Cooper waits for bites from the small, silver fish called smelt that populate the Swinomish Channel. But ...

Each spring, hundreds of Chicago nocturnal fishermen stand elbow to elbow on the shore lines, piers and breakwaters of Lake and Cook Counties in search of the perfect spot to net Lake Michigan smelt ...

Ocean waters have finally dipped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the magic minimum temperature that sustains great fishing. Sea herring have moved into warmer Long Island Sound, where striped bass and ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- It's an eerie look, if you're honest with yourself. Small huts, huddled together for protection from the wind, all perched atop a sharp green glow. On Saturday night, 5 inches ...

As eiders — the largest duck found in these parts — fly in long linear flocks not far out from our beaches and gannets dive like rockets into Cape Cod Bay, chilling temperatures have driven striped ...

They’re not much wider than a straw and your average 12-inch ruler is two or three inches longer than these fish. Also they don’t look voracious; they can’t fight hard and their very name lacks all ...