Winter ice fishing for smelt is a beloved pastime in central Maine, where fishermen squat for hours to catch the tiny fish to be fried and eaten whole.

We're so happy to be back out on the ice. Today we're out here fishing for smelts using tiny Stingnose Jigging Spoons to jig ...

A small village of shanties is spread out before us as we make our way across the ice. Despite a snowfall that is increasing in intensity and the fact that it is a weekday, there are a surprising ...

PORTLAND The ice fishing shacks that normally dot the Kennebec River and Merrymeeting Bay in the winter have folded up for the year, curtailing a Maine tradition because there’s no ice to be ...

At a small cluster of shacks on the ice, a small group of fishermen (and women) are keeping the tradition alive for the next generation.

Ocean-going smelt enter our tidal waters as early as November and December. Anglers get serious about smelting in January and can fish for them into March. Fishing can be done from a pop-up ice ...

On Saturday night, 5 inches of ice on Gull Lake separated two handfuls of anglers who sat over 70 feet of water in hopes of catching the smallest fish in the lake: smelt.

Fishing for smelt is a bit more complicated, at least for me. The fish finder is ablaze in color, at depths of from 10 to 45 feet, more color than I have ever witnessed while fishing for perch. I drop ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Winter ice fishing for smelt is a tradition in Maine, but fishermen say warm temperatures made this the shortest season in decades.Ice fishing shacks normally dot the K… ...