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 ...

So you want a smelt dinner, but you don't have the time or equipment to net your own. What to do? Here's a list of some Northland restaurants that serve smelt. But be warned -- much like the fish ...

Smelt-diving in the Cowlitz River has been pretty good for gulls, though conditions may not be as ducky for human dippers on Saturday. Birds and marine mammals have been patrolling the Cowlitz the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the smelt run begins in the Duluth area, people who harvest the silvery forage fish are being told they can be used only for eating, not as bait. The message is being spread in an effort to limit ...

The state House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that affects a rite of passage practiced by generations of Washingtonians with a license — smelt dipping. Smelt, also called a candlefish, is ...

The imperiled fish that has been at the center of California’s water wars may be at its highest numbers in a decade, judging by the results of a recent survey. Every month in the fall, state ...