Michigan Smelt FISHING!! (Catch and COOK!!) 

Set the hook as soon as you see your tip twitch. Don’t wait. 👍

What happened to smelt fishing with a net back in the 80’s? That’s that smelt fishing I enjoyed…. Help advise

Love the reactions. I recommend just an egg wash and Italian bread crumbs. They'll flake apart easily and taste great. Smelt are good anyway you cook them. cool video.

Had to subscribe..Phil is a good friend of mine it’s awesome seeing his flies on here!

Great bait for brown trout

Gull lake in my opinion has some of the biggest and also most numbers of smelt. I love taking trips out there also the occasional Atlantic salmon as well. Nice video

Was funny watching the wife's reaction!!! I think with smelt, you either really like them, or not. Great vid!

Sweet more spot blasting

They r best crunchy, I eat the whole smelt - the head.

Back in the day when those things work usually plentiful 50 gallon Knights were not unusual but that was dipping not catching

The double red shanty behind is ours.

I laughed so hard when you lost that fish 😆😆

Salt and ketchup lol, I treated them like french fries as a kid. I hated the work then but wish they would still run like they did 25 years ago

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Did you tip the Hali jig with bait?

Dont beer batter the smelt, ruins the taste!! Clean, rinse, toss in some Kentucky kernel flour mix in some salt n pepper, then devour!! Get a shaker from Sportsmans warehouse !!! Keep the honey hole on the download!!

My fiance live in UP, in front of the lake... Do we have to fish further to catch fish? Because his step son didn't catch anything... Is it safe to eat?

mmmm....mmmm.... MMMMMM!!!! That kid is cute

Smelt, one at a time, seems really tedious.

Ya DON'T batter smelt!!! Just dredge in lightly seasoned flour and fry. Such a delicate delicious fish. So wrong to overpower them by coating with thick batter. IF you insist on using a batter mix, you dredge them in the dry batter mix and fry. But NEVER dip them in thick batter to fry...EVER! And to be honest, if you like your fish coated with a thick batter coating you really don't like fish do you? If it's gotta be coated with thick batter, you really don't like the fish itself.

Ur doing to much trying to hard all u need is a bell sinker and 3 single hooks and rubber glow beads on ur hook tipped with minnow s chunks the smelt can't swallow the bait with all that junk on ur hooks and let the fish run with ur bait u will catch 3 at a time