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Originally Posted by Oldsarge
I do believe that smelt would work nicely and they are easy to net by lowering a large, spread out net and sprinkling bread crumbs over it. The idea was originally to obtain halibut bait but why waste something that good on a halibut?
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You mean like this?:

We get them occasionally. I think they are sometimes called white bait here (the pub on Chesil Beach sells them for lunch):

But we normally cook them in batter (standard British recipe for fish?!), like this:
...but the last ones I had (frozen) were not that special, so this recipe might be just the thing to try.