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 ...

Winter is for smelt fishing and, compared to other coastal states from New Jersey to New Hampshire, rainbow smelt — or Osmerus mordax — run in thicker schools and for longer seasons in Maine ...

But this year, the perch fishing has been really slow so slow and disappointing that we decided to change our tactics and go for the delicious, long, slender smelt, which have populated Lake Bomoseen ...

MAKE no mistake, smelt fishing is not a frivolous pastime. You should see Art and Gus pull up in their truck near the mouth of the Ipswich River—they have driven some sixty-odd miles over the ...

Smelt fishing was a cultural force for much of the 20th century in Wisconsin communities on the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shores but has declined over the last two decades.

We're out here with the whole team using the American Smelt and jerking / cranking them for stripers. And guess what? First cast fish, third cast fish, fourth cast fish, fifth cast fish... ▶ If you ...

While most other fishing is coming to a close, smelt fishing is just getting started, except in Scituate which traditionally has a very short run early in each season.

Rainbow smelt, a tasty, non-native fish that for a century has been sought after by Lake Michigan fishermen, have declined but still draw netters.

They seem to catch fish every bit as well as the real deal and aside from frozen or pickled smelt, they are the closest thing to a live smelt.

Smelt dipping will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, March 15.

But this year, the perch fishing has been really slow so slow and disappointing that we decided to change our tactics and go for the delicious, long, slender smelt, which have populated Lake Bomoseen ...