What a fantastic day on the Cowlitz River near Longview fishing for smelt! The fish were so plentiful (and so was the crowd!) I'm sure that no one who was dipping went home empty handed. The DFW really ought to consider keeping it open for a while there's certalinly no shortage of fish! In less than an hour I had all that I needed, and I'm not even very good at it! lol But I watched others and figured out the key is to dip and scoop downstream and then lift up. Some people got their limit with like 4 or 5 scoops!

The first pic is my bucket with my catch. The others are just people I saw fishing there. What fun!

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