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Maine => Ice Fishing Maine => Topic started by: allextremesfishing on Mar 21, 2011, 01:12 PM
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anyone ever herd of catching smelt in bait traps? or ever done it? if anyone has any tips or any other info on it, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Nope!! I don't think it can be done!!! :-\
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nope not likely
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never, If you figure it out please post the details. My wife would love ya, I could stay home in the evenings ::)
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I bet a wide, shallow trap in a quick moving stream they are running up would catch some.
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I'm sure if you found the depth that they were running and left a trap over night, you could get some. I'd much rather jig for them though
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I have caught smelts in my bait trap but only once, I was trapping a lake over a rocky point about 8 ft deep for red fins left it overnight pulled it up next day and had about 15 smelts in one trap. Might of been a fluke but it happened ! ;D needless to say it never happend again :-\
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better read the rules. SMELT must be netted,I believe. JJJJJJIm w.
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better read the rules. SMELT must be netted,I believe. JJJJJJIm w.
Or caught by hook and line!!
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Underwater submersible with camera and light and some type of deployable nets, I'm sure a defense contractor could build something with a couple of mil.
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Or caught by hook and line!!
Yes I beleive your right. Better stick with dipping them. :)
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so if i put 2 bait traps in a tributary for shiners and caught smelt would a warden get me for that?
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so if i put 2 bait traps in a tributary for shiners and caught smelt would a warden get me for that?
Its legal as long as you say your trapping shinners. But I dont know if you could still keep the smelts legally? ???
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Its legal as long as you say your trapping shinners. But I dont know if you could still keep the smelts legally? ???
officer they fell in my bait bucket!!:P
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If your traps are in a brook when the smelts are running you will have one of 2 things.
1: It's closed to the taking of smelt. So you'd get in trouble.
2: If it's legal to dip, there will be other people there guaranteed and if you aren't guarding your traps, you'll never see them again in one piece... :o
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I've caught pounds of them in my fyke net as by-catch,had to release them.
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I've caught pounds of them in my fyke net as by-catch,had to release them.
i saw one of them in my gramps fav smelting spot. he sent me down in the day to try for some brookies an di saw it. i radio'd up to him letting him know it was there and then somehow the next day it was mysteriously gone......
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Like Nor Easter said put a trap in a smelt brook it will be gone the next day. :-\
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i saw one of them in my gramps fav smelting spot. he sent me down in the day to try for some brookies an di saw it. i radio'd up to him letting him know it was there and then somehow the next day it was mysteriously gone......
Did you just rat out poor ole Grandpaw?
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Did you just rat out poor ole Grandpaw?
it wasnt gramp who did it nor was it me or any1 at our camp....... it was the one next to ours;p
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what's a fyke net? ???
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Click here (http://www.google.com/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1147&bih=593&q=fyke+net&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=)
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cool, thanks!