Young salmon, or smolts, swim down the Columbia River to the ocean ... fights a large Chinook salmon thrashing about in his dip net. He secures the fish and holds it up with smile, and she ...

is available on the Cowlitz River smelt fishing webpage. A current Washington fishing license is required to dip-net for smelt. A Washington combination, freshwater, or temporary license is valid.

to dip their nets for smelt. For most of the 20th century, commercial fleets hauled in millions of the fish annually from the Columbia River. In the 1990s, eulachon populations collapsed up and ...

Chinook fishing season on the lower Columbia River has been extended, offering anglers more opportunities to fish for Chinook ...

Whether the Columbia River’s eulachon ... armed with dip nets and five-gallon buckets. It marked only the third time in more than a decade that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife had ...

The fish ladders at Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River, allow the passage of salmon ... I find Brigham Campbell, Kim’s teenage son, working a dip net down by the site of the former locks ...