Whether the Columbia River’s eulachon smelt run will make its way into the Sandy River is always a crap shoot, but this year’s run appears to have waited for spring break. A pulse of the tasty little fish finally showed up in enough numbers to allow a one-day — or more precisely, seven-hour — dipping season Thursday afternoon. From noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, people lined the banks of the Sandy River between its mouth and the Stark Street Bridge, armed with dip nets and five-gallon buckets. 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 dipping, with previous openings in 2015 and 2023. Read more at the link in our bio. 📹: mark_w_graves #smeltdipping #smelt #sandyriver #oregon #oregonfishing #smeltfishing #theoregonian #pacificnorthwest #pnw