Author Topic: smelt (Read 2643 times)

ryaneth · « **on:** Mar 07, 2014, 02:32 PM »

hi all, i have my first........chance to get out this year! Hoping to get a few smelt for a supper. Can anyone point me around southern vt? Harriman......anywhere? thanks so much in advance.

tracker one · « **Reply #1 on:** Mar 07, 2014, 04:27 PM »

duh,try Bomo.....sorry,I couldn't resist it

thebigwiggle · « **Reply #2 on:** Mar 07, 2014, 04:35 PM »

yes i heard bomo has smelt..

thebigwiggle · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 07, 2014, 04:36 PM »

Quote from: ryaneth on Mar 07, 2014, 02:32 PM

hi all, i have my first........chance to get out this year! Hoping to get a few smelt for a supper. Can anyone point me around southern vt? Harriman......anywhere? thanks so much in advance.

read some of my post and watch the videos..

fishingidjit · « **Reply #4 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 05:32 AM »

Bring two 5 gallon pails and have at em !

Bailbuster · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 05:41 AM »

It won't have them long .

ryaneth · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 06:55 AM »

Thanks for the report guys. Sounds like Bomo is my best chance. Sorry for not reading the posts prior to my question! Literally dropped in, wrote my question and had to keep on running. Timing eh? Funny, If only i had taken the mintue to read......! Thanks again. Good luck to you all.

ICE_HOOK · « **Reply #7 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 02:25 PM »

Fished Bomo today and did not catch a smelt! Couldn't mark any on flasher , did manage 1 nice 3 lb smalley. Best time for smelt is probably night time with light! Bigwiggle has caught them all! ha

ICE_HOOK · « **Reply #8 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 02:40 PM »

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tracker one · « **Reply #9 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 04:46 PM »

Quote from: ICE_HOOK on Mar 08, 2014, 02:40 PM

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YOU WERE IN THE WRONG PLACE

fishingidjit · « **Reply #10 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 04:53 PM »

Quote from: Bailbuster on Mar 08, 2014, 05:41 AM

It won't have them long .

No they will die off just like Willoughby and Seymour,1000's floating on the surface DEAD .Catch them while you can because mother nature will kill them off if you don't eat em and keep the population down!

thebigwiggle · « **Reply #11 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 07:09 PM »

Quote from: ICE_HOOK on Mar 08, 2014, 02:25 PM

Fished Bomo today and did not catch a smelt! Couldn't mark any on flasher , did manage 1 nice 3 lb smalley. Best time for smelt is probably night time with light! Bigwiggle has caught them all! ha

No Not yet !!

The Smelt in Bomo are here to stay

Troutmagnet · « **Reply #12 on:** Mar 08, 2014, 08:20 PM »

Quote from: fishingidjit on Mar 08, 2014, 05:32 AM

Bring two 5 gallon pails and have at em !

sam2013 · « **Reply #13 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 01:06 AM »

I'm more concerned that this is your first time out this year than that you haven't read about smelt in Bomo.

ICE_HOOK · « **Reply #14 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 04:28 AM »

Quote from: tracker one on Mar 08, 2014, 04:46 PM

YOU WERE IN THE WRONG PLACE

Was my best spot early , now can't find them . Pm me with hot spots now - please!

ryaneth · « **Reply #15 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 06:35 AM »

well sam........it is true. was lookin for any help on where might be my best spot for a suppers worth of fish. It has been that, kinda year. Yikes.

S.Fontinalis · « **Reply #16 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 07:09 AM »

I am getting plenty during the day about forty feet down or more. At night they are every where.

Mike

dlj01260 · « **Reply #17 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 07:36 AM »

I've never fished for smelt... What's your favorite lure and bait for these guys?

shippeevt · « **Reply #18 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 07:40 AM »

i like perch looking hali with a little chunk of cut bait off the tail...

CrappieVermonter · « **Reply #19 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 07:52 AM »

double nitro spoons one glow green one glow blue tipped with gulp waxies

wmhunts · « **Reply #20 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 08:04 AM »

Quote from: dlj01260 on Mar 09, 2014, 07:36 AM

I've never fished for smelt... What's your favorite lure and bait for these guys?

I use a glow hali and a small BB size bibbet a bout a foot up. For bait I filet a minnow (or smelt if you have one) and make aprox. 1/4in. slices. No Vexilar for me yet so I start 2 cranks from the bottom and work my way up keeping track of my depth by reel cranks(either to the top or from the bottom) this way I can be more precise about getting back on the school. I have found refreshing my bait often increases number of hookups 100% sometimes they just peck at it, put some fresh bait on and then immediately start hookin up. Its addictive beware! good thing my girlfriend has been working nights. This is my first year at it and Ive been about 20 nights. Hour before dark and 2hrs after has been the best bite for me

thebigwiggle · « **Reply #21 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 09:13 AM »

Quote from: CrappieVermonter on Mar 09, 2014, 07:52 AM

double nitro spoons one glow green one glow blue tipped with gulp waxies

gogetthegaff · « **Reply #22 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 08:08 PM »

Remember this? One of these and a size 8 hook baited with a small slab of smelt. I'll bet it still works!

slab daddy 518 · « **Reply #23 on:** Mar 09, 2014, 10:31 PM »

Small tungsten jig red in color and chunk of a fathead got 2 of us 85 of them saturday night in 3 hrs.

S.Fontinalis · « **Reply #24 on:** Mar 10, 2014, 04:53 AM »

When the bite is good it doesn't matter that much. Sat. I had a 3 inch long repla on and they kept hammering it. I was hoping to jig up something that is targeting smelt.

I have had most of my fish on a Swedish pimple.

Mike

tracker one · « **Reply #25 on:** Mar 10, 2014, 06:46 AM »

sunday nite I had about 40 smelt in an hour and a half when something big hit,a few minutes later iced a 5# northern.fished another 1/2 and hour and never saw a fish on the sonar. that pike scared the smelt from my area,maybe I shoulda kept him instead of putting him back down the hole.I should have moved but I thought the smelt would return but they didn't.Bomo in 50' of water.

ICE_HOOK · « **Reply #26 on:** Mar 10, 2014, 02:50 PM »

Crazy , that has happened to me and I was using a flasher and could see how they dispersed and never came back!

thebigwiggle · « **Reply #27 on:** Mar 10, 2014, 04:10 PM »

Quote from: ICE_HOOK on Mar 10, 2014, 02:50 PM

Crazy , that has happened to me and I was using a flasher and could see how they dispersed and never came back!

You must of pissed them off Ice Hook..

If you or tracker one is looking for a good tip to try and get the smelt back in the area you were fishing, then i suggest using a little chum like Crushed up White Egg Shells, only use a Pinch, this will look like little micro organism and plankton to the smelt and it MIGHT bring the Smelt back into the Area.

mudchuck · « **Reply #28 on:** Mar 10, 2014, 08:09 PM »

went out after work to jig some perch and wound up catching smelt...

tench · « **Reply #29 on:** Mar 11, 2014, 09:38 PM »

Quote from: thebigwiggle on Mar 10, 2014, 04:10 PM

You must of pissed them off Ice Hook..

If you or tracker one is looking for a good tip to try and get the smelt back in the area you were fishing, then i suggest using a little chum like Crushed up White Egg Shells, only use a Pinch, this will look like little micro organism and plankton to the smelt and it MIGHT bring the Smelt back into the Area.

Something else that works is if you can gather some of the scales that fall off when you make your cut bait. They give just enough flash

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