JIGGING FOR SMELT, Catch and Clean

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We take to the ice on a single digit night in February in search of Smelt. By using lanterns, we are able to bring up massive schools just under the ice where they aggressively attack our jigs and flies. This video explains everything you need to know to catch smelt using standard panfish ice fishing gear. Be sure to watch until the end to learn how to clean them as well.

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9 мар 2021

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@EliSmythYerr 5 месяцев назад

Very informative thanks

@MudSharkZ 5 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it, unfortunately not enough ice here in NY to do it again this year. Thanks for watching 👊

@sportfishingCengizandnature 3 года назад

Very good Nice video tenks

@freetimeoffshore3157 2 года назад

Used to fish Higgins lake for smelt. Big shanty group when fish were biting. Lights pointed down in the water.

@MudSharkZ 2 года назад

I grew up fishing Houghton and Higgins in the summer up in Northern Michigan, if that's the Higgins you're talking about. I still have a picture of 10 year old me with a 28 inch walleye out of Houghton I caught on a jig and leech.

@keredeht 2 года назад

have you ever tried chumming for smelt? when I gut and debone my fish I save the red meat and bones (from pike mostly) and freeze them to grind for my dogs, which I cook and feed them, but I was thinking it might also make good attractant for fish, if frozen and hung in a hole it would melt slowly and fall towards the bottom which I think would attract them to that area. Also do you find that most of the smelt in a school tend to be the same size? Like if you start catching 4" but would rather catch larger smelt, is it better to find a new spot or do the larger fish hang out in the same school as the smaller ones?

@MudSharkZ 2 года назад

It seems like the schools are fairly uniform in my experience, within an inch or so anyway. The chum idea would work I'm sure, but it seems like if the smelt are active, the lights on the ice are all you really need. They are definitely meat eaters though, so I'm sure they'd go after the chum, with a try 👍

@doughackett695 Год назад

How deep are the during the summer? Thanks

@MudSharkZ Год назад

They go deep to find cool water, around the thermocline I would guess. I only fish them in the winter.

@magicfishingcharters2968 3 года назад

How come I don’t see u guys anymore???

@MudSharkZ 3 года назад

Mostly been hitting Buzzards Bay when we come that way. Haven't gone for Bluefin since we fished with you. You doing any Cod trips, or mostly Stripers?