"U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
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> similar to smelt I imagine. My mother would fry up a heaping platter
> of smelt. We'd get huge amounts of them when the smelt were running.
> Fishermen would go down to Lake Michigan with huge nets and haul them
> in by the bushel. Lake smelt are smaller and milder than ocean smelt
> and I prefer the lake smelt. You simply gut them and eat the rest.
> They are about the size of a husky french fry.
> Janet US



Same with us when we were kids.

Cheri