smelt

anybody seine them anymore.ive always was going to but didnt know where or how. thanks

There are alot of guys that go smelting every year. When I went to school in northern MN my friends would take me every year. Here is a link to smelting

Smelting

Smelt and the ’70’s! What flash backs!!

After a couple years of taking waaay too many home, we would just fill a couple three ice cream pails.

I hope members post local smelt fries this year. I’m tasting them!!

Brian, I think the smell of all those guts made you the kitty fisherman you are today
I grew up in Racine, WI and 20 years later I hear smelt
, and I still smell the buckets of guts (and some spilt beer) in the garage…

I mostly remember the smell of grease!

There is still a good opportunity to smelt in Duluth. I have missed a few years, but my buddies do well every year.

I’ll post updates on the site again this year.

Sully

My Dad owned a sport shop in Eau Claire, so he knew a lot of guys that went for smelt every year. He never requested any, but it never failed, we would wake in the morning to a 5 gallon bucket (sometimes more than one bucket) almost every morning during the run. Mom would wash them, then bag them whole and freeze them. When it was time for a fry, she pulled the bags out of the freezer, and as soon as she could, pop them apart. then us kids got an assembly line going, one would cut the head off with a scissors, the next would slit the belly, the next would use their thumb to pop the frozen guts out whole, the last one washed them. Dad made the beer batter and did the dipping, Mom would start frying. I remember Mom froze them in bags of 40, and I think we went through 3 or 4 bags a meal.

Before the guts could smell, Dad had them buried in the garden.

the population is way down but we still manage to get 10 to 20 gallons every few nights out.

I want in, BAD! Just a few gallons is all I need. I miss eating them soooo much. I was just talking about it to my wife. I grew up in Michigan and smelt were a big part of my food life growing up. Hopefully I can make a run for them this year.

Too funny! We has smelt for dinner last night, the wife was almost crying over memories of her grandpa. As far as the twin boys went, I had one taker and one that couldn’t get over ‘ya eat the whole thing Dad?’ (and he’s the big sushi eater!).

Beats the crap out of Lutifisk.

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Brian, I think the smell of all those guts made you the kitty fisherman you are today

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I think it was more the taste if cutbait under his nails.
Or was it stink bait?

Maybe it was both.

Nothing beats waking up in the morning to a pillow case full of sucker eggs.

I really hope we have some smelt fries around the Afton area!