come you virgin…. we go SMELTING 2023 EDITION!!!!

[hmgROCK]

We've been smelting at the wrong places, Rock.

Go here instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5DsVVurRQ8

Damn

Those fishes are really going at it.   
Just pick it up with my hand

Looks like you gotta time it right though

[Reporter]

Of course, you have to time it right. Their sexual peak happens only over a few nights.

Not just that, the temperature has to be just right.

The birds, otters, raccoons, and even bobcats love picking them up, too.

Damn

Those fishes are really going at it.   
Just pick it up with my hand

Looks like you gotta time it right though

[YAX]

Back when I lived in Santa Barbara, you could go grunion fishing but the catch was that you can only use your bare hands.

[Reporter]

Back when I lived in Santa Barbara, you could go grunion fishing but the catch was that you can only use your bare hands.

I thought noodling was illegal.

How are you going to catch enough with just your hands? Did anyone get their limits?

When I was a boy in Laos, we noodled but we were happy with just one or two snakeheads in
the muddy holes.

[hmgROCK]

Of course, you have to time it right. Their sexual peak happens only over a few nights.

Not just that, the temperature has to be just right.

The birds, otters, raccoons, and even bobcats love picking them up, too.

You see the alaska one
Those hmong folks up there just dipnet
And they are huge

 

[hmgROCK]

Back when I lived in Santa Barbara, you could go grunion fishing but the catch was that you can only use your bare hands.

I never been there
Just in the LAX area
How far north do they run

I know the water is freakin ice cold all year long

 

[Reporter]

This is the seine I sold away 6 years ago.

[hmgROCK]

Damn
Thats a nice net
Probably worth hundred

 

Im cheap when it comes to fishing

[Reporter]

It’s top quality. I even paid extra to have it treated
So that it would last extra long.

[hmgROCK]

a hmong brother on facebook went to duluth went a few night ago
and they started to come in
not the big haul yet..
but a few gallon milk jug to chow

last night was a skunked

[Reporter]

Our DNR went to the shores last week and said there were still debris
flowing down the streams and ice still thawing in the lake. No smelting
activities yet, they said.

But I don't trust the report. Hmong reports are more accurate, cuz
Hmong are there every day, every night now.

I'll check the water temperature for Park Point and see if it's
good enough for the smelts to come out yet. It's time. Just
not sure of the temp that will draw them to shore or repel them to the deep
for a few more days.

[Reporter]

Check out current views of Lake Superior to see how the ice is
doing. Ashland side.

https://www.travelashlandcounty.com/rec-trail-reports/smelt-fishing-report/

[hmgROCK]

Our DNR went to the shores last week and said there were still debris
flowing down the streams and ice still thawing in the lake. No smelting
activities yet, they said.

But I don't trust the report. Hmong reports are more accurate, cuz
Hmong are there every day, every night now.

I'll check the water temperature for Park Point and see if it's
good enough for the smelts to come out yet. It's time. Just
not sure of the temp that will draw them to shore or repel them to the deep
for a few more days.

The hmong brother on Facebook went Tuesday night
Only a few gallon

Its still cold and ice here in Wisconsin

Late winter

[Reporter]

Water is still thick. Ice not quite gone yet as of today.

But waves are doing their work: hitting the ice sheets off
like fish nibbling off a big bait.

Tomorrow to Tuesday might see more actions. There's been
very little actions so far.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be there. They are too
unpredictable. They would be storming out tonight...any time
now.

[hmgROCK]

I’m just doing walleye fishing
Got a few of them
Didn’t keep any

It will be awhile till i smelt
This late winter is hard