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Winter is for smelt fishing and, compared to other coastal states from New Jersey to New Hampshire, rainbow smelt — or Osmerus mordax — run in thicker schools and for longer seasons in Maine tidal ...

Ocean waters have finally dipped below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, the magic minimum temperature that sustains great fishing. Sea herring have moved into warmer Long Island Sound, where striped bass and ...

Each spring, hundreds of Chicago nocturnal fishermen stand elbow to elbow on the shore lines, piers and breakwaters of Lake and Cook Counties in search of the perfect spot to net Lake Michigan smelt ...

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Smelt fishing on Lake Michigan’s shoreline isn’t what it used to be, yet it continues to be a great Chicago tradition. The season officially started this past weekend and will continue to the end of ...

GULL LAKE – It’s all a matter of perspective. I thought we were doing pretty well, hauling in smelt at a fairly steady rate from 70 feet of water on Gull Lake here in Kalamazoo County. But C.J. Hale ...

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The ice fishing shacks that normally dot the Kennebec River and Merrymeeting Bay in the winter have folded up for the year, curtailing a Maine tradition because there’s no ice ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Winter ice fishing for smelt is a tradition in Maine, but fishermen say warm temperatures made this the shortest season in decades. Ice fishing shacks normally dot the Kennebec ...

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