My son is interested in using whole (uncleaned) smelt for ice fishing.

I can't seem to find any in the Grand Rapids, MI area. Can anyone out there tell me where I can find whole, uncleaned fresh or frozen smelt?

I'm willing to travel a little bit to get some. Thanks.

I buy mine at Lambert's market on the south side of Holland.

 

We always used cleaned smelt on tipups and couldn't ever tell the difference between cleaned or uncleaned........ Meijers or WW Supercenters both have cleaned smelt......

 

Or catch your own. Obviously too late this year to dip smelt, but we dip a few each spring and freeze them for the upcoming ice fishing season. So be thinking this April, and freeze a few.

 

flying bridge fish market on Plainfield and Leonard, used to get them there before we moved up north a couple years ago

 

I've been wondering the same thing but in S.E. Michigan ?

 

any fish market or butcher should be able to get their hands on em... just make sure when you ask them, stress you want whole uncleaned ones.