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 ...

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 ...

For the first winter in recent years, the weather has been cold enough for local smelt fishermen to get their fix of ice fishing along the Squamscott River. Smelt shacks dot the ice from Swasey ...

Inside their warm shack, sheep farmers Hiram and Isabelle — who first met while smelt fishing in Bowdoinham in the 1930s — told us that they’d never missed a winter of smelt fishing.

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 ...

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 ...

State Fish and Wildlife biologists are bracing for another poor smelt run in the Columbia River and its tributaries. “Every indication points to another poor smelt return this year,” said Brad ...

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… ...

Winter ice fishing for smelt is a tradition in Maine, but fishermen say warm temperatures made this the shortest season in decades.