Catch more sea smelts than anyone!

http://shop.mainetackle.com/Smelt-Fishin_c2.htm
Over the past few years a new way to catch sea smelts has been spreading like wildfire. The Fishin' Hole Sea smelt rigs are the best, and most deadly weapon you can have on the ice. 3 drop loop glow flies, wieghted, with snap swivels. Nothing has outfished this rig yet.

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Sports

Tags:

• sea smelt
• smelt rig
• maine ice fishing
• ice fishing in maine
• maine smelt
• smelt fishing
• rainbow smelt
• ice shack
• jig pole
• jigging

[foydude]

Bakers is in Pittston not Randolph.

[sprattoo]

@foydude Yeah, next town over.... I got it right on the new video!!

[420MRsmoky]

im fishing smelts in new brunswick canada right now but we fish with spears and use teasers to atrack them over the hole all we use is a little piece of red yarn would your flyes work during the day as well

[sprattoo]

@420MRsmoky I really like the hot pink flies on the day time tides.

[sprattoo]

@sprattoo The pink ones have been doing very well lately

[aubie0071971]

you should do a how to catch smelt DVD. come down to Alabama and we can fish some 'stripe bass' thanks! ~aubie

[sprattoo]

@aubie0071971 Oh man, it's been a while since we had a good strong run of stripers here in Maine.

[sprattoo]

@sprattoo Also I am dropper looping these flies. Depending on where you get them from, the sabikis are just knotted, which weakens the line strength by almost half

[sprattoo]

@sam805236 It's not a sabiki. The sabikis are run 6 long and end up in a tangled mess. They are too spread out to fish in a smelt shack on the ice.The glow is not anywhere near the hook.

I tried sabikis about a hundred different ways.

The flies are much more effective, and on a run of three more manageable.

Also Sabikis don't use swivels, another problem I had in an ice shack.

[sam805236]

Congratualations, you made a sabiki rig the japanese have been using for who knows how long. These rigs are HUGE where I live in Southern California. No need for bait though, the rigs work fine as is. I can usually catch 20-30 jacksmelt in a few hours at the pier.