Although surf smelt can be found year-around at various places in Puget Sound, winter is the traditional time to bundle up the family and head for La Conner, Cornet Bay or Oak Harbor marina for a ...

Jimmy Merrill of Yarmouth packs up his gear and prepares to leave the ice Monday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2024, after smelt fishing on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick. The large eddy below the dam is ...

Ocean waters have finally dipped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the magic minimum temperature that sustains great fishing. Sea herring have moved into warmer Long Island Sound, where striped bass and ...

The following is for an avid reader of this column who loves to fish for smelt and asked me recently why I never write about them. This is for him. According to the Maine Fish and Wildlife Department, ...