The Smelt Queen puppet leads stilt walkers down the Lakewalk during the Magic Smelt Puppet Troupe "Run, Smelt, Run!" parade in Duluth. This year's festivities begin at 3:30 p.m. May 28 at the Aerial ...

Mar. 6—Crowds from across the state gathered along the Cowlitz River on Tuesday afternoon for the second day of smelt-dipping approved by the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) ...

USCG rescues commercial fishing crew from sinking vessel off Newport coast Crew members on a commercial fishing vessel were rescued on Monday when their vessel started sinking off the coast of Newport ...

The crowd cheered as the smelt curlers swept with their brooms and a curling rock and rings pranced around, circled by a woman running with a silver Olympic flag snapping in the wind. After the smelt ...

A pilot run of smelt appears in the Columbia River tributaries by mid-January with peak abundance occurring in February, and tapering off as late as April. Smelt are very sensitive to variations in ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Dalton Fry cast a finely meshed net into the murky Cowlitz River. He waited a few minutes, then hauled it in and poured the contents into a glass jar. There swam dozens of smelt ...

Feb. 16—Crowds flocked to the Cowlitz River on Thursday morning as smelt-dipping returned after the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved a one-day recreational fishery. A ...

The possibility of having a smelt season on the Cowlitz River is still up in the air, and state Fish and Wildlife released some facts and figures on what to expect in 2017. For those who aren’t ...

Smelt have arrived and are running up the Cowlitz River, but fishery managers say the run is not strong enough to justify a fishery. The run is also later than usual this year. Managers were expecting ...

DULUTH — It was just after 8 p.m. on a mild mid-April evening and there was only a solitary, wader-clad fisherman at the mouth of Duluth’s Lester River. He was standing thigh-deep in cold water, where ...