January 6

SNAPSHOT: Hooked on smelting

By Andy Molloy amolloy@centralmaine.com
Staff Writer

Grace Peters, right, unhooks a smelt Sunday while fishing with Roger Cahoon, center, and Jim Earle Sr. at Baker's Smelt Camps. The winter angling shacks, rented by the tide, have emerged from Merrymeeting Bay to Randolph on the Kennebec River. The migrating fish are "really running now," Baker's Smelt Camps owner Mike Baker said.

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Grace Peters, right, unhooks a smelt Sunday while fishing with Roger Cahoon, center, and Jim Earle Sr. at Baker's Smelt Camps. The winter angling shacks, rented by the tide, have emerged from Merrymeeting Bay to Randolph on the Kennebec River. The migrating fish are "really running now," Baker's Smelt Camps owner Mike Baker said.

Staff photo by Andy Molloy

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