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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. (WCCO) --There is a place on Lake Superior where crashing waves meet the mouth of the Amnicon River. The pristine scenery is a tempting lure in its own right, but every spring dozens are ...

BOWDOINHAM — The proprietors of Maine’s ice fishing shacks, where fishermen patiently sit by coolers of beer hoping to catch smelts they can batter and fry, say this winter was the season when the ...

So you want a smelt dinner, but you don't have the time or equipment to net your own. What to do? Here's a list of some Northland restaurants that serve smelt. But be warned -- much like the fish ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) – Washington state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife opened up a highly anticipated one-day season for smelt fishing on the lower Cowlitz River – but maybe no one told the smelt.

KELSO -- Sam Wright of Olympia finds it hard to believe that the once-abundant smelt runs of the Cowlitz River are down to nearly nothing. The oily 6-inch fish once swarmed so thick that a single dip ...

Smelt-diving in the Cowlitz River has been pretty good for gulls, though conditions may not be as ducky for human dippers on Saturday. Birds and marine mammals have been patrolling the Cowlitz the ...

If you throw a batch of smelt into a cast-iron skillet within a half-hour or so of jigging them through the ice, they will curl like an arthritic hand, then, somehow, stand up on their bellies as if ...

Nothing was going to get between Rosane Koch and a plateful of pan-fried smelt Saturday: Not the two-hour drive from her home in the southern Willamette Valley, not the crowds of dip-netters clogging ...

BOWDOINHAM — The proprietors of Maine’s ice fishing shacks, where fishermen patiently sit by coolers of beer hoping to catch smelts they can batter and fry, say this winter was the season when the ...