People filled a bucket of eulachon smelt in just a few minutes during the erratic fishery along the Sandy River near Troutdale. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB This was the Sandy River eulachon smelt ...

TROUTDALE Ore. (KPTV) - On Thursday, hundreds of families and fishermen took to the banks of the Sandy River for the one-day recreational harvest of eulachon smelt. “The keys are to have a ...

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