Smelt fishing is very unpredictable, so patience is required. ”With every good day of smelt fishing, there`s a bad day,” say Steve Kelly of the Chicago Park District.

Bowdoinham’s Ice and Smelt Fishing Festival is a winter tradition, drawing tourists eager to fish and explore the town. However, the past two events lacked its key attraction: actual smelt fishing.

Smelt fishing was a cultural force for much of the 20th century in Wisconsin communities on the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shores but has declined over the last two decades.

Outdoors Smelt fishing attracts anglers from all walks for 'best eating fish out there' Updated: Feb. 16, 2016, 4:00 p.m. | Published: Feb. 16, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

Freshwater fishing: Smelt run complete, but Sebago still hot While the salmon and togue fishing improves on Sebago Lake, it continues to go great guns Down East, according to yet another positive ...

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 ...

There’s been substantial competition for the Eulachon smelt, especially from sea lions that have been in the Cowlitz River since the smelt run began in February.

Gov. Jay Inslee will soon a bill into law that will require Washington smelt dippers to get a license before they wade out with their nets. Recreational fishing licenses have been required to ...