COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (WABI) - Smelt fishing is a tradition in Maine. One that our WABI Morning crew had not experienced, until now. First, the Downeast Salmon Federation showed Alyssa Thurlow the ...

For the first winter in recent years, the weather has been cold enough for local smelt fishermen to get their fix of ice fishing along the Squamscott River. Smelt shacks dot the ice from Swasey ...

Derek Saxon, owner of D’s Camps, walks across the ice on the Cathance River in Bowdoinham, where Wednesday's temperature dipped into the high teens that night. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) ...

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Smelt camps line ice along the shore of the Kennebec River in Randolph. Smelting at night is usually more productive. Credit: Courtesy of Christi Holmes It doesn’t get more Maine than smelting.

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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 ...