smelt dipping

[dustysags]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151711128027551&set=vb.502997550&type=3&theater   Earlier this year in november on the nooksack river

[scree]

anybody get out for smelt today?

[Bullkllr]

I would love to go just to experience it.  I have never done it.

Serious?

Until very recently it was quite a yearly tradition for almost everybody in the southern half of Western Washington. Even for people who didn't fish.

[washelkhunter]

You'd probably be risking life and limb getting on the rivers in these conditions.

[TheHunt]

I would love to go just to experience it.  I have never done it.

Serious?

Until very recently it was quite a yearly tradition for almost everybody in the southern half of Western Washington. Even for people who didn't fish.

If you ever go let me know.  I will go with you. 

[Bullkllr]

I would love to go just to experience it.  I have never done it.

Serious?

Until very recently it was quite a yearly tradition for almost everybody in the southern half of Western Washington. Even for people who didn't fish.

Cool. Let's see how things go the next couple weeks and keep that open as an option.

If you ever go let me know.  I will go with you.

[Kc_Kracker]

anyone end up going? and for the newbs, as you catch them separate the males and females or their sticky gooey eggs get all over them all and its nasty 

what to do with them? males `you whole brine, smoke, eat like candy.........females clean them and remove eggs if you wish, i do

[Song Dog]

I will be going up saturday.  Besides smoking them and sturgen bait they make really good bait for early springers. 

[jackmaster]

i use to go when i was a kid, what a pain, unless we were using them for bait, otherwise it was along sit on 5 gal bucket and a pair of scissors, takes an aweful long time to clean 5 buckets of little ole smelt    we knew this philipino fella that would take the whole fish and a bunch of other stuff and pressure cook into mush, and then eat it with bread, it was the worst stink, it was capable of stinking up the whole whatehouse where i worked with my dad in the summertime, lindahl cedar homes

[Encore 280]

I don't know what the regs are now but years ago you didn't need a fishing license to dip smelt but you needed one to gig frogs. Figure that one out.

[Jamieb]

Just strung new netting,ready for Saturday
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