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 ...

Patty Valeriani (left) and Jimmy Merrill leave the ice after smelt fishing on Jan. 22, 2024, on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick. The large eddy below the dam was one of the few winter traditional ...

MOST ANGLERS in my coastal location relate to saltwater smelt as an ice fishing resource and the hundreds of smelt shanties that have dotted the Great Bay ice over the last many years certainly ...

Jimmy Merrill of Yarmouth packs up his gear and prepares to leave the ice Monday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2024, after smelt fishing on the Androscoggin River in Brunswick. The large eddy below the dam is ...

Shantytowns come alive in the night, as anglers use bright lights to draw Northern Michigan smelt up from the dark bottoms of inland lakes. A frozen lake in the dead of night is a desolate place ...

COLUMBIA, Maine (WABI) - Our smelt fishing adventures in Columbia Falls continue. In Part One, Alyssa Thurlow helped to catch the early spring swimmers. Then in Part Two, she and Joy Hollowell ...

Michigan Out-of-Doors is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV ...

There’ve been many recent winters when the ice isn’t thick enough for David MacDougall to set up his smelt shack on the Squamscott River in downtown Exeter. This year is different.