Mike Baker has offered shacks for rent on the frozen Kennebec River since 1976, where residents of Maine 'drink and swap lies' together while fishing for Rainbow Smelt. Guests pay 10 a tide for one of ...

COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has once again canceled a tiny Maine town’s annual celebration of a small fish and the arrival of spring. Columbia Falls, in Down East Maine, is ...

Down East: James’ Eddy Smelt Camps in Dresden, Maine did just the trick. WITH THE SMELT fishing on Great Bay looking more and more doubtful because of lack of fishable ice, a family group consisting ...

FILE -In this Friday, Feb. 2, 2018 file photo, an ice fisherman shows smelt caught at Jim Worthing's Smelt Camps on the Kennebec River in Randolph, Maine. A lack of ice in cold weather states this ...