Today we're out here fishing for smelts using tiny Stingnose Jigging Spoons to jig up smelt after smelt after smelt. I prefer ...

A small village of shanties is spread out before us as we make our way across the ice. Despite a snowfall that is increasing in intensity and the fact that it is a weekday, there are a surprising ...

Bowdoinham’s Ice and Smelt Fishing Festival is a winter tradition, drawing tourists eager to fish and explore the town.

Last year's ice fishing for smelt on Great Bay was pretty much nonexistent because of the lack of ice that would support this great pastime. When a lot of people mention Great Bay fishing, such as ...

MOST ANGLERS in my coastal location relate to saltwater smelt as an ice fishing resource and the hundreds of smelt shanties that have dotted the Great Bay ice over the last many years certainly ...

I hate to be a buzzkill, but I will never recommend anybody hit the ice for an ice fishing trip without knowing there is a good base of ice available and weather conditions warrant continued frozen ...

Shantytowns come alive in the night, as anglers use bright lights to draw Northern Michigan smelt up from the dark bottoms of inland lakes. A frozen lake in the dead of night is a desolate place ...

Time is growing shorter for a seasonal staple, for those hearty enough to endure the elements. The ice fishing season isn’t what it was even earlier this century, said Dan Indicavitch, president of ...

LONGVIEW — Thousands of eager anglers lined the banks of the Cowlitz River from Kelso to Castle Rock on Tuesday hoping to score a net full of smelt. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ...