Fisheries managers for the WDFW have started the process by which the state will decide if there will be enough of a smelt return to the Columbia River to open recreational smelt dipping on the Cowlit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 8—Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has ...

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office seized approximately 2,500 pounds of illegally harvested smelt last Thursday during a joint poaching enforcement operation with Oregon State Police on the Sandy ...

Jan. 16—The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has announced a new tentative schedule approach for the Cowlitz River recreational smelt fishery. "This approach is designed to provide ...

Mar. 12—Anglers from across the Pacific Northwest took to the banks of the Cowlitz River on Wednesday, March 12, for the opening of the state's brief smelt dipping season. All it took was a few empty ...

Many men in waders, with long dip nets slung over their shoulders and buckets in hand, made their way down the steep hill to the banks of the river near Fishers Lane in Kelso Saturday morning.

Dozens of dippers armed with nets and waves of silvery smelt ignored the blustery weather and met in the driving rain Saturday on the banks of the Cowlitz River for the first of two sport smelt ...