Coloured Smelts

Nerdapres' · #1 03-15-2009, 07:01 AM

How many people have tried the new coloured smelts? What colors did you try and which ones worked best?

goober · #2 03-15-2009, 07:04 AM

Natural has always done the job for me. Tried the colored ones a couple times this winter and always wound up back at natural. Maybe that is just me though!

TangoKilo · #3 03-15-2009, 07:35 AM

I have always used natural sardines from superstore. Far less expensive than smelts and seem to work just as well. I would be interested to try some coloured smelts beside a natural colour bait.

ryisnky · #4 03-15-2009, 09:40 AM

I tried the pink & the yellow this year. The pink ones did well for me for pike; not any monsters; but they did catch allot!

BBJTKLE&FISHINGADVENTURES · #5 03-15-2009, 01:36 PM

I like using natural smelts as well as they have red ones. red ones really are great. Also when were fishing for big pike we will use 8 inch anchovies and use this red bait marker I picked up at cabala's , any way marking the belly of the anchovies , Bang on results.

ives1 · #6 03-15-2009, 07:17 PM

I have seen excellent results with the red smelts on Pike.

/ives

Freedom55 · #7 03-17-2009, 06:31 AM

Tried red smelts at a $1.00 each. Ho hum. Tried regular colored smelts from a grocery store at $0.15 each, also ho hum. Tried the fish marker pens on 0.15 smelts. ho hum. Conclusion, smelts are ho hum, but $0.15 smelts marked with the pen are cheap ho hum!
Dave Si

Nerdapres' · #8 03-17-2009, 06:34 AM

So what do you use then?

Freedom55 · #9 03-17-2009, 06:57 AM

Sardines, spoons, jigging spoons, jigging rapalas and oh yeah, smelts. But I must tell you that pike fishing is a distraction to me. I grew up very near Keho a long time ago and I was spoiled by the monsters that my Dad and I would harvest. Imagine 20+lbs toothy buggers, from shore on a red devil, every time out from the time I was 5 years old. One of these monsters tried to eat my hand once, and she had been in the pail for about 6 hours. Talk about teeth. But I'm not telling you anything you don't know. I favour trout fishing, or salmon, and plan to spend my life hunting walleyes in northern Sask. Try the marker pens. On sardines. Dave Si

TippyCanoe · #10 03-17-2009, 07:32 AM

I've coloured my own in a variety of different colours. Put some smelt in a zip-loc bag and add food colouring. You can control the depth of colour by the amount of food colouring and the length of time you leave them in.

The variety of colours I could create was limited only by what my wife had for food colouring in her baking supply cupboard.

I've found natural and a real deep red have worked best for me.