If you like to dip and eat smelt, you can thank a program started in the late 1800’s that planted them in a Benzie County lake. The smelt eventually escaped and spread throughout the Great Lakes ...

LANSING, MI — It turns out that rainbow smelt and some panfish in Michigan are not as highly contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’ as previously thought.

The opportunity to take part in one of Michigan’s favorite fishing pastimes brought back memories of my early years when I learned how to smelt dip in the 1970s.

Smelt run draws netters to Duluth for tasty spring tradition Warmer spring may have meant an earlier than usual spawning run for little Lake Superior fish.

Tom Durecki remembers the glory days for smelt fishing — or smelting — in Michigan in the 1970s. “The smelt are running!” was a call that sent fisherman scrambling to Michigan rivers and ...

Local smelt are a different species (Thaleichthys pacificus) than the Lake Michigan variety (Osmerus mordax, which also inhabit eastern coastal rivers.), but they are of the same family.

LANSING, MI — Michigan health officials want people to limit intake of a popular fish from Lake Superior due to concerning levels of toxic “forever chemicals” in some samples.

If you like to dip and eat smelt you can thank a program started in the late 1800s that planted them in a Benzie County lake. The smelt eventually escaped and spread throughout the Great Lakes ...

At one time Northern Michigan rivers would run nearly black with smelt, but today, smelt runs have become a pale imitation of the days gone by. The reason, according to the Michigan DNR, is that ...

For years now, the spring smelt runs have been shadows of their former selves. Gone are the days when rivers and streams would run black, teaming with billions of migrating smelt. With only a few ...