Bait

[Big Water]

Anyone know where I can buy whole, frozen smelt or alewives by the pound? Looking for 5-6" fish and the grocery store only carries cleaned, headless smelt that are probably 7-8" long. Must be some bait store somewhere that handles these.

Thanks,

Doug

[chowder]

The good quality stuff is not cheap, and the cheap stuff is worthless! I've used both these suppliers for whole herring, alewives and bait strips;

http://www.fishonbait.com/index.php?opt ... 1&Itemid=6

and

http://shop.gltsupplies.com/merchant2/

To be honest w/ you though I think you will find that most of this stuff will work when most of the rest of the arsenal is hot but doesn't give you much advantage when the fish are negative. The only partial exception to this rule I've seen so far is live alewives on neutral smallies and even that isn't set in stone. Good luck! -Andy