Smelt Rigs are on sale!

The Smelt are running and the weather is warming a little.

I would like to get cleaned out of my inventory this year!!
The Fishin’ Hole is having a blow out sale!!
I have marked smelt rigs down to an all time low price to help wrap the season up…. Or get it moving again (whatever the case may be)
That means good news for the Fishin’ Hole customers!

 

I dropped the price of Smelt Rigs down to $4.00 ea for a week!!! I have never sold them this cheap, but let’s get them in the water!

Celsius rods have dropped to $15 this week as well!

I must have bumped my head, but take advantage of these rates while they last! Hit the website and order away!
Http://www.mainetackle.com

I saw on our Facebook page someone hauled in 500!! Then the next day 4. Keep posting your catch number on the wall folks, it helps us all out. The numbers are looking promising for this weekend, I would be interested in hearing what comes up.

The ice at Bakers is solid and fishable,The shacks are warm, and the water cold!

My smelt fishing secret

Why I think Smelt Fishing is better during a cold snap:
The Temperature out there in the ol’ Atlantic off the coast of Maine right now is somewhere around 40-42 degrees Fahrenheit near the coastline.

A good cold snap cools the shallower brackish waters up in the rivers inland to temps lower than that out there in the bay by quite a bit. River temps raise or lower more quickly than that whole big ocean.

There are schools of Smelts out there in the Atlantic full of eggs and sperm looking for a river to spawn in, it’s why they come up the river.

A cruising school out in the bay would easily notice a temperature drop of even just 1 degree.

I think the fish are out there cruising around, feel a cold water flow and tend to follow it up to find the river spawning eddies. I personally think this MAY be why some of our best catches have been on some of the coldest fishing nights of the season.

The night I talk about the most where we brought in as many as 3,000 smelt was in a snap that was about -20 degrees.

I personally think that cold water flowing into the ocean is like a glaring red flag to the smelts to turn inland toward the river.

(I may be wrong…this is just my own contemplations)

We are heading up to try things out Thursday 1/24, we have shack #7 from 12:30-7:30pm. I will post some results on our facebook page. The projected temp for the evening is -7 degrees.
If you head up to try it, stop by and say hello, hopefully our buckets with be shining with smelts.

Ice is coming

As I look out the window the snow is dropping, so are the temps. You would be hard-pressed to find any ice in Maine ready to walk on yet, so I hope everyone is using a little common sense.
This is the time to get out all the gear, grease reel gears, oil bearings, re-line rods and traps, organize tackleboxes and replenish smelt rigs from the shop.
The Fishin' Hole