COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (WABI) - Commercial smelt fishing in Columbia Falls runs from January to early spring. After realizing no one on the WABI Morning Show team had actually tried smelt before, we ...

COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (WABI) - Smelt fishing is a tradition in Maine. One that our WABI Morning crew had not experienced, until now. First, the Downeast Salmon Federation showed Alyssa Thurlow the ...

It's a Saturday night in early April in Milwaukee, with mild temperatures and a light south wind. As Lake Michigan laps gently against the sea wall on Jones Island, jetliners pass overhead on approach ...

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- It's an eerie look, if you're honest with yourself. Small huts, huddled together for protection from the wind, all perched atop a sharp green glow. On Saturday night, 5 inches ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SMELT FISHING SHACKS sit in a wet parking lot last Friday in Bowdoinham.

Ocean waters have finally dipped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the magic minimum temperature that sustains great fishing. Sea herring have moved into warmer Long Island Sound, where striped bass and ...

Fill a ring with smelt, strip down to shorts, then wrestle in the slimy mess. Marinette, Wis., hosted the annual Smelt Carnival in 1939 and 1940 with a smelt wrestling event that delighted spectators, ...

GULL LAKE – It’s all a matter of perspective. I thought we were doing pretty well, hauling in smelt at a fairly steady rate from 70 feet of water on Gull Lake here in Kalamazoo County. But C.J. Hale ...

A juvenile delta smelt inside a rearing tank at the UC Davis Fish Conservation and Culture Lab. Photo: Dale Kolke / California Department of Water Resources About a third of delta smelt samples from ...