Smelt

I never ate any, but there was a place here in town that used to sell smelt by the pound bag. Best tip up bait for Pike ever, hands down.

SR

I mentioned it to my dad and he told me, yeah my old man and all his drunk buddies piled into my 53 Chevy wagon and drove them up to Duluth and watched them stumble around falling in the water. Filled multiple buckets and cleaned and fried them. Lol.

Also someone mentioned grindstone. My dad’s buddy used to net smelt there for ice fishing pike I guess! They loved using frozen ciscoes and smelt on tip ups. They used to crush the giant pike up on LOTW In march I believe.

B-man that is awesome. A little fireside wrasslin?

Also see we are rocking the $18 energizer headlamps. Those little triple-A eaters got me through thick and thin in the woods and on the ice! I have more expensive ones now but they are still always with me or in the vehicle. Hard to go wrong.

They were mining

Ended up with a couple gallons of smelt and five cohos today

They also seined and released a laker with a mortal lamprey bite, I should have just kept it but wasn’t worth the risk.

The Boys were cooking smelt on finger fires till 2am, they were actually pretty good with a little Johnny’s on them lol

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Johnny’s is good stuff!!