About a half-dozen smelt camps report fishing and business has been good so far this season after multiple rough years.

Ted Janes recounts the first time he went smelt fishing on an iced-over river in Maine, where he found an all-night party and ...

Northern Maine has also seen night after night of single-digit temperatures. Many ice fishermen have been drilling holes and ...

A small village of shanties is spread out before us as we make our way across the ice. Despite a snowfall that is increasing in intensity and the fact that it is a weekday, there are a surprising ...

Anglers have competed in a smelt fishing event on frozen Lake Abashiri in Hokkaido. Forty teams from within and outside the ...