Historically, the food-fish fisheries were free. I believe that this was a cry-over from the agency funding sources. Game fish (WDG) was license fee supported while food fish were Genral-Fund (general tax revenues). As time change and we get more into the pay to play we create licenses. Kinda makes no sense to put on a fishery for free but require management and enforcement. A simple, but not money-grabbing solution, is to just add smelt (and all other non-licensed species) to the list of license-required. No need to creat a license or add a fee.