Surf smelt Hypomesus pretiosus are an important part of the Salish Sea food web and obligate beach spawners, yet little is known about the spatiotemporal distribution of spawning and beach ...

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 ...

As February approaches, local sportsmen and women start to think about smelt dipping. Will the popular smelt dip take place on the Cowlitz River this year, or is the run supposed to be too depressed ...

The following is for an avid reader of this column who loves to fish for smelt and asked me recently why I never write about them. This is for him. According to the Maine Fish and Wildlife Department, ...

Here in the north state we have an interesting bait fish species, the Japanese pond smelt (aka wakasagi). This fish was introduced to six California reservoirs from Japan in 1959, most notably Lake ...

The reasons for the dwindling population of smelt prey fish in the Great Lakes to near historic lows are more complicated than previously believed, new research suggests. Although results of the 2014 ...

Tom Durecki remembers the glory days for smelt fishing — or smelting — in Michigan in the 1970s. “The smelt are running!” was a call that sent fisherman scrambling to Michigan rivers and streams to ...

Jan. 16—The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has announced a new tentative schedule approach for the Cowlitz River recreational smelt fishery. "This approach is designed to provide ...

Mar. 8—Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, ...