Algonquin Highlands. Some smelt

Renting a cottage here and checking a couple of lakes for lakers and pike.
The first lake had a clean win over me and my son. No fish, just a beautiful sunset with a bit of color to the black and white picture.

Another

Today have tried another lake. Found a spot with smelt and fished for them expecting lakers to come by. Unfortunately no lakers. Caught 28 smelt for a tasty snack. It is a 10" plate.

Served

Well done! Those look tasty

Damn that brings back childhood memories as my dad love to catch and eat smelt. Thanks for the pics.

Wow, so we both spent this this long weekend in Algonquin Highlands.

Well done. Those fried smelt looks nice and tasty!

As to me myself while at the cottage, I fished 4 days straight, and fished two lakes, and caught close to 20 small laker, and a couple of a bit bigger one (at 3 lb each).

Yummy....takes me back to childhood as well.....fishing at the three sisters back then.

Arnie

Yes, that does look good. Thanks for posting. I have never had smelts.

I would take the smelts over lakers when it comes to eating

never gone for smelts, but looks delicious. what do you get them on?

Fresh smelts are a treat

Thank you for the comments jents!

Had to downsize a lot.

My son used the drop shot setup above, the hook was about 3' above the weight. I used the tungsten jig head below. A pain to get it down to 35', but I caught more fish.
Adding a half or a third of chartreuse crappie nibble seemed to help a lot to get bites.

hey.......very nice, smelt are awesome for eats........good find and that plate looks yummy