TROUTDALE Ore. (KPTV) - On Thursday, hundreds of families and fishermen took to the banks of the Sandy River for the one-day recreational harvest of eulachon smelt. “The keys are to have a strong ...

Fishermen from Milwaukee travel to Ashland and Washburn to net for smelt on the shore of Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior.

A smelt dip on the Cowlitz River brings about a festival atmosphere as folks gather to have fun, and hopefully end up with a mess of smelt. (Terry Otto for The Columbian) RIDGEFIELD — There will be ...

Duluth, Minn., has a tradition to mark the end of long, hard winters - a tradition that centers around smelt, a small, silvery fish. For a couple of weeks every spring, tens of thousands of those fish ...