[Oldsarge]

Smelt can be netted like that farther north but ours don't run up rivers . . . and that's a good thing since all of ours are cement bottomed these days. We hang an "umbrella net" down next to floating docks then spread bread crumbs over them. The smelt come out from under the dock to eat the crumbs and then we net them. Ours probably aren't true smelt but that's what they're called locally. Still, I'm sure that they'd work just as well in a pan . . .