Bowdoinham’s Ice and Smelt Fishing Festival is a winter tradition, drawing tourists eager to fish and explore the town. However, the past two events lacked its key attraction: actual smelt fishing.

"If any one likes fishing through the ice with the thermometer 10 below zero and the wind blowing sometimes at the rate of 25 miles an hour, he can find his ideal sport just now on any of the ...

In clear lakes with pelagic baitfish such as smelt and ciscoes, lake trout can be found in big numbers. As far as tactics, lakers are fished similarly to pike. And no list of popular ice fishing ...

Smelt are small, tasty fish harvested by the bucket load, either by dipping nets in streams during spring spawn or hook-and-line through the ice. They aren’t native to the Great Lakes ...

Depending on available forage, they may eat ciscoes, whitefish, herring, smelt or other prey ... jigging lake trout through the ice. / Northland Lake trout fishing isn’t for everyone.

At 6:30 p.m. a long line of cars waited to buy ice cream at Dairy ... And all of us are devoted smelt fishers. You might be familiar with smelt as a tasty, small fish on a restaurant menu.

An ice cream pail holds several smelt caught in Lake Superior at the mouth of the Lester River. This is not sport, per se, as the fish has no fighting chance to escape. But it’s still a decades ...