Does anyone fish for smelt during the winter in New England? It seems like most fish move away from the shore for the cold months, but smelt move in. I wonder what sort of seafood Indians in this area ate during the winter. It seems unlikely that clams migrate, so they probably made the list. I'm just opening this up to any thoughts on the subject.
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Smelt! ... and other winter seafood.
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The Pleasant River in Columbia, Maine is near where I live and has a very healthy run of smelts. I don't fish them, but usually attend the Downeast Salmon Federation's ( www.mainesalmonrivers.org ) annual smelt fry.
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I have caught Grunion, which is a type of smelt. They swim up onto the sand to breed a few days after a full moon or new moon to breed between March and August. You wait until the sandy beach is full of them the you just start picking them up and put them into a bucket. Just fried the small ones whole. The bigger ones I would gut but not descale as the scales were tiny and soft.
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the oregon smelt run in jan & feb is a ton of good eating.delicate flavor
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