Catching sea smelt down east

[Scalloper]

I have been smelting for 50 years. On monday night I had my limit in about 20 minutes, what was really interesting is I also had 10-11 small brook trout. Though its not uncommon to catch 1 or 2 to catch 10-11 was very interesting. I have to wonder if the sea run brookies are thriving and doing well or was this just a fluke. These brookies were only 3-4" and very easy to see in the net.

[woodchip1]

I havent been for quite a few years ,but back years ago it was a common thing to get several brookies in an evening some years hope they start coming back , at the end of the smelt run  on a few days the sea run Browns would be in hard ,I had chance to hook into some  big fish ,but always lost the real big ones largest one i landed was 9lbs,