LA CONNER — Bobbing the jig on his fishing line up and down in the water, 17-year-old Avery Cooper waits for bites from the small, silver fish called smelt that populate the Swinomish Channel. But ...

Oh, the wonderful smells of spring: tulips, rain and of course, a local favorite—smelt. In fact, one of the rituals of spring in Highland Park is catching, frying and eating smelt, a small fish that ...

In March of 1986, fans of the Chicago Bulls were wondering when, or if, their young injured superstar would make it back onto the court in time for the playoffs. The Chicago Bears were eyeing the ...

BOWDOINHAM — The proprietors of Maine’s ice fishing shacks, where fishermen patiently sit by coolers of beer hoping to catch smelts they can batter and fry, say this winter was the season when the ...

Smelt-diving in the Cowlitz River has been pretty good for gulls, though conditions may not be as ducky for human dippers on Saturday. Birds and marine mammals have been patrolling the Cowlitz the ...

Nothing was going to get between Rosane Koch and a plateful of pan-fried smelt Saturday: Not the two-hour drive from her home in the southern Willamette Valley, not the crowds of dip-netters clogging ...

DULUTH, Minn. (WCCO) --There is a place on Lake Superior where crashing waves meet the mouth of the Amnicon River. The pristine scenery is a tempting lure in its own right, but every spring dozens are ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- American Legion Post 82 in Port Washington, Wis., stands along Lake Michigan, a beacon for big-eating Midwesterners this time of year as members get ready to host the post's 57th ...

For the first time in three years there was an open season for dipping smelt in Washington’s Cowlitz River on Friday, and the public came by the thousands to take part. People of all ages gathered ...