FIDALGO BAY — Holding up a jar filled with water and sand, students looked at roughly 400 tiny, white eggs floating inside — surf smelt at the very early stages of their lives. The small fish, a kind ...

KEEP AN EYE on North Olympic Peninsula beaches. With the calendar days away from turning over into August, we’re getting awfully close to what is considered traditional surf smelt dip netting season.

The state will curtail recreational and commercial smelt fishing in Puget Sound in hopes of increasing protection for the species. The decision was made by the state Fish and Wildlife Commission ...

If a bucket of fresh smelt is in your fishing future, you might want to concentrate on saltwater jigging rather than waiting for the Cowlitz eulachon dipnet fishery. The forecast for this winter’s ...

Derek Saxon, owner of D’s Camps, walks across the ice on the Cathance River in Bowdoinham, where Wednesday's temperature dipped into the high teens that night. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 13—The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved a one-day recreational smelt fishery in the Cowlitz ...