Fishing
Rainbow smelt are fished both commercially and for sport. Commercial harvests are down from historic levels; for example around 1850 an annual harvest from the Charles River alone was around 9 million fish. They are commonly processed into animal feed, but are also eaten by humans. They are a popular winter game fish and the spring smelt run is a tradition in many parts of their distribution. Fishing for rainbow smelt using a gill net is a popular activity along the city of Chicago's lakefront.
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“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
—Tom Brokaw (b. 1940)
“A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
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On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
Musing upon the king my brother’s wreck
And on the king my father’s death before him.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)