Other than using them as bait for sturgeon, what does one do with smelt? Really. When I was a kid we would go down to the Cowlitz to dip smelt because anything that might be called fishing was automatically fun. But then what to do with all those dang smelt? I remember cleaning hundreds of them at a time with my step-brother, and then my mom would roll them in flour and then fry them up in oil. And there was absolutely nothing good about them as food. Does anyone actually like to eat them? I mean, just because fish protein is healthy doesn't mean it's good food.

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