"The bright lights, the laughter and chatter of voices, the smoke curling from shanty chimneys all gave a bustling, carnival ...

Northern Maine has also seen night after night of single-digit temperatures. Many ice fishermen have been drilling holes and ...

D’s Camps in Bowdoinham are busy, with weekends already booked for the winter ...

After several warm winters kept fishermen off the ice, early cold temps are reviving a beloved Maine tradition.

Fisheries managers for the WDFW have started the process by which the state will decide if there will be enough of a smelt return to the Columbia River to open recreational smelt dipping on the Cowlit ...

Standing on the banks of the Sandy River, Oregon, at 11:45 on Thursday morning, parents, grandparents and kids jostled for a good spot and ready their nets. Below, in the clear water, thousands of ...

The state House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that affects a rite of passage practiced by generations of Washingtonians with a license — smelt dipping. Smelt, also called a candlefish, is ...

LANSING, MI — It turns out that rainbow smelt and some panfish in Michigan are not as highly contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’ as previously thought. This week, the Michigan Department of ...