Smelt dippers return to Sandy River for rare one-day fishery

Smelt dippers return to Sandy River for rare one-day fishery

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.