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Offline fish_B4_you_walk

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Smelt
« on: Feb 17, 2011, 03:42 PM »
What is the best thing to do with smelt after you caught them? I have never caught smelt before so I would think to use them as bait and at best keep them alive.  Or is it better to use them dead or eat them? You probably eat them somewhat whole but I would think their bones would make eating the whole fish unpalatable.
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Offline dylan8351

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #1 on: Feb 17, 2011, 03:51 PM »
smelt are great eating! the bones do cook up so that you can eat them. as far as bait is concerned, live is the way to go but on a good day dead ones will work. when i jig i use tail fillets for scent and flash. works well for me
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Offline mroy44

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #2 on: Feb 17, 2011, 04:15 PM »
Never tried it but I heard that dead smelt worked really good for northerns late season
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Offline Percheye101

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #3 on: Feb 17, 2011, 06:29 PM »
Smelt are great eating, fry them up and eat them like french fries!!
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Offline Magog Landshark

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #4 on: Feb 17, 2011, 07:04 PM »
All of the above!  ;D 

Fry them up with french fries.  Goes good with Sam Adams.

Cut one up and send it to the bottom under a tip up.  Put on a nice frisky one live just under the ice.  All good fishing. 

I've eaten some side filets raw like sushi and eaten the roe out of a female just to be hardcore.  And because I think that is probably a delicacy in Japan.

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Offline bradroy55

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #5 on: Feb 17, 2011, 07:27 PM »
Had a big plate of the little buggers tonight!
Going to try Canning them in mason jars this week, both Pickled and persevered, just like sardines!
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Offline fish_B4_you_walk

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #6 on: Feb 18, 2011, 10:31 AM »
There is alot you can do with those fish.  I gotta try my luck fishin for them sometime.  I went to lake carmi and try out my light at night but nothing hopefully waterburry will give me better luck with my underwater light.  The best idea I had was to go to waterburry for the whole day catch some smelt in the a.m. and then try out using them for bait in the afternoon. 
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Offline Bailbuster

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #7 on: Feb 18, 2011, 03:04 PM »
Put a hook in them send them back down!!!
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Offline FondoFishin

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #8 on: Feb 18, 2011, 03:50 PM »
Pike bait
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Offline Percheye101

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #9 on: Feb 18, 2011, 05:03 PM »
Pike bait is just a waste,they would eat your boot if you put it on your hook! Smelt are like candy to a trout!!
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Offline FondoFishin

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #10 on: Feb 18, 2011, 06:09 PM »
And trout are like candy to a pike! too bad we cant use em as bait.
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Re: Smelt
« Reply #11 on: Feb 18, 2011, 06:19 PM »
 :nono:  lol
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Offline iceman55

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #12 on: Feb 19, 2011, 03:00 AM »
Don't get caught transporting them alive :whistle:
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Offline Bailbuster

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Re: Smelt
« Reply #13 on: Feb 19, 2011, 05:05 AM »
They just won't die!we tried to drown them in this bucket!!!
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Re: Smelt
« Reply #14 on: Feb 19, 2011, 05:06 AM »
Quote from: Bailbuster on Feb 19, 2011, 05:05 AM
They just won't die!we tried to drown them in this bucket!!!

Really?  :roflmao: haha
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