Blender??!!! SMelt???!! No way. You bread the smelt (after cutting off their heads and gutting them) and sorta deep fry it (you put enough oil or lard in the cast iron fry pan to cover the smelt about halfway up, cook a little on that side, then flip and cook the other side till the breading is golden, grab a beer and eat/drink!).
I was kidding about the smelt drinking, that's just our way of saying we're going to head to the bridge around 10 at night, get to the river, dip the nets and then drink massive amounts of beer. Or,if you're me and you don't drink beer, ya crack a Diet Coke and become the designated driver. Watching the sun rise through the Mackinaw Bridge is awesome.
and, you must use Jiffy corn flour pancake mix...from Chelsea.
Well that makes better sense. It sounded like you were drinking liquid sushi.
Why people would eat perfectly good bait is beyond me.
Just saw where you guys are talking about smelt. The big deal around Milwaukee when the smelt are ‘running’ on Lake Michigan is to use dip nets and flood lights. The smelt come to the light. Tradition has it that you bite the head off the first smelt you catch. Then, in order to get the slime off the smelt, you run them through a cold rinse cycle in the wash machine(Mrs. irish guard is not fond of this part), then you either bread and fry the, or smoke them. For my money, smoked smelt is the better of the two. Oh yea, and because this is in the Milwaukee area (actually Port Washington for me), you wash down the smelt with copious amounts of beer.