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.

The routine should still be to concentrate on the shallow roaming coho salmon with long-lining stick baits. This time of year ...

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

LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River smelt dipping season went out a lot like it started: without much happening. The ...

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

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 ...

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 recreational smelt dip-fishing season kicked off Wednesday almost totally without its two most important elements: smelt and people dipping for them.

About 100 fish writhed in a blue bucket by his side. The eulachon smelt fishery is truly a wonder, tugging the imagination back to the days when, legend has it, people could walk across Oregon’s ...