Bowdoinham’s Ice and Smelt Fishing Festival is a winter tradition, drawing tourists eager to fish and explore the town. However, the past two events lacked its key attraction: actual smelt fishing.

Oregon authorities seized around 2,500 pounds worth of illegally harvested smelt during a special, short season on the Sandy ...

But even this bone-chilling place is feeling the effects of climate change. The ice fishing season for pond smelt opened on Feb. 6, the latest date since 1998 when such statistics were first recorded.

The incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described ... when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore ...

The Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that no one caught any fish and no one received any license-related citations ...

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 ...

The fish were confiscated during the single-day legal smelt dipping season on March 27, 2025 — a rare opportunity that drew large crowds to the riverbank between the Sandy River’s mouth and ...

"Anyone who was harvesting smelt was required to have a fishing license and were not to exceed 10 pounds of fish," the Sheriff's Office posted on X. "Overharvesting has serious consequences.