Photo courtesy Multnomah County Sheriff's Office A special 7-hour fishing season in Oregon brought chaos and a bit of lawlessness to the Sandy River on Thursday. As big pushes of tiny smelt worked ...

Standing on the banks of the Sandy River ... Oregon’s rivers on the backs of the salmon. Although some biologists aren’t sure that was ever actually the case. Whitaker said he remembers ...

It marked only the third time in more than a decade that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife had opened the Sandy River to smelt ... be approved this year. Fishing was restricted to bank ...

This photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office via X shows police with 2,500 pounds of smelt seized from poachers on the Sandy River on ... a valid 2025 Oregon fishing license ...

A late, strong showing of smelt are in the Sandy River ... Tucker Jones, Columbia River program manager for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said while the department can only approve ...

(KOIN) — The body of a man who fell into the Sandy River on Tuesday ... On Sunday, law enforcement received a report from a civilian saying they had seen a body in the water approximately ...

(KOIN) — Officials seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt in a poaching operation on the Sandy River, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said. In collaboration with Oregon State ...