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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

STOCKTON — For the fourth year in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has caught zero Delta smelt in its Fall Midwater Trawl Survey on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

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 ...