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 ...

Although surf smelt can be found year-around at various places in Puget Sound, winter is the traditional time to bundle up the family and head for La Conner, Cornet Bay or Oak Harbor marina for a ...

No license is required to jig smelt, but herring can be kept only by those with a license. The limit is 10 pounds, about a third of a 5-gallon bucket.

My first time smelt fishing was in 1945 on Coffee Pond in Casco. it was a cold Saturday morning; I had made some jig sticks at school and was here to catch smelts.

Midwest Fishing Report: Coho and openers for Heidecke, inland trout, smelt netting Coho on southern Lake Michigan continue to lead the sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, but fishing really ...

LA CONNER — Bobbing the jig on his fishing line up and down in the water, 17-year-old Avery Cooper waits for bites from the small, silver fish called smelt that populate the Swinomish Channel ...

Smelt fishing lures people to the lakefront for a variety of reasons. Maybe it`s the fact that spring is in the air, or it could be the camaraderie among fellow smelt fishermen.

Outdoors Smelt fishing attracts anglers from all walks for 'best eating fish out there' Updated: Feb. 16, 2016, 4:00 p.m. | Published: Feb. 16, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

Smelt are being caught on grass shrimp, Swedish Pimple lures, and Sabiki rigs from the North Shore piers of Salem, Beverly, Marblehead and Winthrop, on south in Hingham, Hull and Nut Island on ...

He will thread chunks of the fish onto the hooks of 3-ounce white jigs, his preferred lures. Sonday learned to use herring and smelt for jigging from his friend, the late Paul Antonich of Two Harbors.