MORIOKA—Colorful ice-fishing huts in red, yellow and green dot the snow-covered ice on Lake Gandoko here that stretches as ...

On Thursday, WDFW approved dipping on Wednesday and March 22 — the last day of the season. Saturday's dipnetting is also ...

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 incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described ... when dead smelts popped up through their fishing holes in the ice. By spring great shoals of dead fish were being washed ashore ...

There’ve been many recent winters when the ice isn’t thick enough for David MacDougall to set up his smelt shack on the ...

(Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Smelt dipping will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday ...

It’s an old-fashioned winter," said David MacDougall of Brentwood, who's fished in Exeter for more than 60 years. "We haven’t ...