Smelt dippers return to Sandy River for rare one-day fishery
Whether the Columbia River’s eulachon smelt run will make its way into the Sandy River is always a crap shoot, but this ...
Oregonians head to Sandy River for 1-day chance to net eulachon smelt
On Thursday, hundreds of families and fishermen took to the banks of the Sandy River for the one-day harvest of eulachon smelt.
Smelt poachers caught with over a ton of fish during one-day season
Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a one-day poaching sting on the Sandy River. The fish were confiscated during Oregon’s rare smelt dipping season and donated to the Con ...
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Smelt Fishery Opens For Seven Hours On Sandy River
Grab your dipnet and head for the Sandy River Thursday afternoon. The smelt are running. Smelt are small fish that spend most of their life in the ocean and migrate in the Sandy ...