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smeltking

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caroga lake dipping smelt
« on: Mar 31, 2020, 07:27 AM »
does anyone have a heads up on the run this year. i dont want to miss it .

Big-z-in-315

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Re: caroga lake dipping smelt
« Reply #1 on: Apr 03, 2020, 10:04 PM »
I have a place on the lake, I want to try dip netting for smelt, have any tips?

Mac Attack

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Re: caroga lake dipping smelt
« Reply #2 on: Apr 04, 2020, 08:11 AM »
I have a place on the lake, I want to try dip netting for smelt, have any tips?

Use a net with small mesh size so they don't swim out.

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Mac Attack

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Re: caroga lake dipping smelt
« Reply #3 on: Apr 04, 2020, 08:14 AM »
Sorry - just had to do that.
I saw smelt in the title and got interested.
My wife and I used to dip them in the lower Niagara River.
Very tough walk down the escarpment and back up afterwards.
There are stairs but LOTS of them.
Anyway, I was just thinking a few days ago that the smelt should be there about now.


Anyway, I know nothing about the smelt runs in Caroga and cannot help you.
But good luck and I hope you get a bunch.

smeltking

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Re: caroga lake dipping smelt
« Reply #4 on: Apr 20, 2020, 09:14 PM »
any smelt yet might drive up in the am

mcully

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Re: caroga lake dipping smelt
« Reply #5 on: Apr 21, 2020, 05:46 AM »
In all the years I've been on this site I can't recall one time anyone saying "THE RUN IS ON" regarding smelt
I was up near the salmon river a few weeks ago and recall back in the 70's dipping smelt with uncles under the lanterns and the trying to stay awake helping clean all of them. Huge social event

prawlusz

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Re: caroga lake dipping smelt
« Reply #6 on: Apr 22, 2020, 09:27 AM »
Also walked the long stairs down to the gorge as a kid with my dad, relatives. Scary memories of the steep banks and huge chucks of ice going both up and down river in the massive current. My older brother fell in and was saved by my uncle using his long handled net. Bushel baskets of smelt back then with excess used to fertilize my grandparents gardens. You could feel the smelt hit the net and remember a big northern once and rainbow trout. Prior to my smelting they use to spear blue pike at devils hole. My dad had an article about a local Indian who had his foot in the coiled rope, speared a sturgeon and met his faith.

 



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