You will be missed Fred, I remember watching this episode on Thursday nights.

I always respected Fred for his views on conservation. Without conservation, we would hunt or fish a species to extinction. I sure miss watching Fred on tv. He was the epitome of ethical hunting and fishing.

@Michigan-Outdoors

Ай бұрын

One reason he felt a wild game recipe was crucial to include on the TV Show

I absolutely loved watching this show every Thursday evening. Freds voice is ingraved in my brain.

@Michigan-Outdoors

Жыл бұрын

Mine as well, LOL

I miss your dad. Thursdays will never be the same. Thanks Zack.

Im 70 years old and this was ones of my favorite shows. What a wonderful way to live!

I watched this video 10 years ago, and because of it, I’ve been hooked. Thank you

Fred Trost had the best Michigan outdoors program ever, I always felt I was part of the action. Thanks for sharing this video Zachary.

Good 'ole Fred. Great show. My Father and I watched this every week together growing up.

Wow does it make my day to see these videos again ! I grew up without a father and these shows are what got me interested in hunting and fishing .. Good stuff please post more .

I love the lesson of this video! It is The most valuable lesson for a true sportsman.

@Michigan-Outdoors

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it informative, my Father would be very proud as that was all he wanted to do.

I remember watching this episode on a Thursday night with my fam as a kid! Glad I found your channel zac

Fred was a head of his time with conservation. I seem to remember a video where he wounded a doe and tore up his doe permit. Fred lived by principals that people today don't possess or want to unfortunately.

@Michigan-Outdoors

6 жыл бұрын

Well Said!

@thepatriot8514

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Zack!

One of my favorite episodes 👍🎣

I remember this episode and it's always good to hear Fred's voice again thank you Zack for putting these clips up. Michigan needs an outdoor show like this again...maybe using these old clips for the second half??? Hmmm need help... I'm game :)

you dont know how many people would love to be put where you were for this video! glad to see you only took what you needed!

Fred was very popular in Canada too! Big thumbs up from the big land.

@Michigan-Outdoors

3 жыл бұрын

We definately enjoyed Hunting and Fishing in Canada when we could.

I remember my grandpa and his buddies coming back with huge trash cans full of smelt that grandma and I would clean (and cook). That would have been in the 70’s. I haven’t had fried smelt in a very, very, very long time.

Wow I remember this episode. I always looked forward to Thursday nights. Mort Neff (sp) and later on Fred and I still watch Jimmy when I get the chance. Thanks Much for this one for sure!

Wow, how great it is to see these videos. So much more enjoyable than the infomercials today.

I seen hog island on us 2 where the hole river was black 1991!And it was 2pm sunny day during trout season! All the dippers went home there was old camp fire everywhere!! Smelt season was over for 14_21 days or better!! We broke a net first dip rounded it!! U couldn't even see the sand on the bottom of river!! Just black from the smelt!And not just a few spots the hole river for 5_6 bends!!for as I walked so may have bean more!! All together 2 ,55 gallon drums!! In under a hour!! We helped other people that were just driving buy stopped!! A older couple wanted for a old age home they ran!! So we fill them up!!! Couldn't believe it! I think there coming in later when all dippers go home!! It's one of the last great memories I have of my dad!! And our time together!!! Love ya dad!!

@Michigan-Outdoors

5 жыл бұрын

Wow that is very Interesting. I do have a question: What did you do with all that Smelt? I remember my dipping days and how much time it took to just clean less than a 5 gallon bucket. Good Times & that amount of Smelt was enough to satisfy our family & friends for the year.

i watched Fred's roast when I lived in Michigan up until I moved out in 2006 I can't even remember the last time I saw the show but it was certainly more than 15 years ago... I moved back in 2019 and just by chance in 2024 While coming up on the smelt dipping season and searching youtube videos I found this one and I knew Fred Trost's voice before I saw his face in the video

I was born in 1956 and grew up watching Michigan Outdoors with Mort Neff and Jerry Chiapetta. My dad would always watch the program on Thursday night. I was just a child and had no particular interest in hunting or fishing other than the occasional fishing trips with my dad however Mort Neff had a style and charisma that I really enjoyed as a child. I consider that the golden age of Michigan Outdoors. When Fred Trost took over I considered him the perfect host to replace Mort Neff. I so miss Fred and his shows and its so heartwarming to be able to watch these old programs. Michigan Out of Doors these days just cannot compare to anything Fred Trost did. He is missed by so many thousands of viewers in Michigan. I would love to be able to sit back on a thursday night a cue up some of his old shows..

@Michigan-Outdoors

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this info. Yes Mort was quite a charismatic personality. I hope to share more.

I grew up watching Fred. So awesome, great sportsman he was.

Thanks zack for putting this classic show back on , i miss your dads show and the man also.

That is amazing!!!

what a beautiful site you guys are awsome

I never realized you could catch smelt in the daytime. The main reason I never went for them is because you could only catch them at night, according to local lore. The run's over for this year, but next year I'm gonna try dipping in daylight.

@Michigan-Outdoors

Ай бұрын

You can, but you need to be stealth as they can see you coming.

A true sportsman right there!!!

Fred was awesome!

What a great show! Grew up watching this. I remember in the early 90's running into Mr Trost at the silver dollar saloon. I was there quite a few weekends. If i remember the name right, the band that always played there was The Kicker band. Great time, great music. Fred always had a smile and was very friendly when i would see him there.

@Michigan-Outdoors

5 жыл бұрын

He did like going to the "Dollar". The building was demolished a few years ago.

@roybritten7275

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it was, was sad to see it go. Thank you for posting all these, great ride down memory lane and now my kids can grow up watching your dad. Thank you so much again!!

I can remember watching this episode I sure miss Thursday night Fred trost show

I remember a creek in the U.P. that would over flow with suckers. You could almost walk across the creek, those suckers were coming up on the banks!! Watching the suckers gather out in lake Michigan and as the sun was going down the closer that black mass would come to shore. As a 10yr old kid, this was an amazing site to see!!! Now the nightmares of cleaning all the smelt your father and friends would bring home ugh....the many fish fry's to follow were oh so yummy!!!

This is amazing. I pay $6.99 for a small bag at safeway and this guys get them for free. I'm amazed.

always good to hear Fred.....

thats heaven... those are days to cherish.. i really miss you fred

awesome video.

Damn delicious fish!!!!

Just looking at them makes my mouth watery!!!

That is amazing

i cant stop watching this...

awesome that they put back what they didn't need, good on ya fellas

I remember watching this episode. It was crazy the amount of smelt

I remember watching this one that was good

omg, that's crazy!

I remember when I first saw this, I wrote your dad. He said "I could look around Michigan for smelt". He never did reveal where. I cracked up when I read his letter. Because I knew this was one of his spots. I wish I could remember where I put that letter.

Well damn Pete! Save some for the rest of us!

I remember Smelt Fishing back in the 70's they would dip continuously for hours filling up entire 50 gallon drums. They would hang a 50 gallon drum in an inner-tube and fill it right up. My dad would give most of it away, rarely keeping more than a few pounds for the freezer. This was in lower peninsula too. You don't see smelt numbers like that anymore. They would actually have to stop because their arms were too tired from dipping the nets or ran out of storage for the fish.

@notoriousL

7 жыл бұрын

For reasons as stated in your comment, Over harvesting and not even eating them, Giving them to others. This is the reason they are no longer abundant

@elnet1

6 жыл бұрын

When he meant giving them to others, a lot of older or poor people can't hunt or fish like the younger days, but still enjoy fresh caught fish or game, I'm sure that none went to waste.

@elnet1

6 жыл бұрын

Well back in the late 60's early 70's, it was like an hour to fill two garbage cans, my mother would freeze them in 1/2 gallon milk cartons and we ate them a couple of times a week, none went to waste, she always fixed them by dipping them in batter and frying the whole fish, head to tail, guts and all. This was on the Carp River UP.

@livenfree

2 жыл бұрын

@@elnet1 so you would eat the head? Any taste difference?

@scoutingadventures4222

Жыл бұрын

It's not a mystery then why you rarely see smelt like that anymore. Thanks to the greedy ones who just couldn't get their fill,. But wanted it all for themselves. Then have the gall to brag about it too. Disappointing to say the least.

I just got back from dipping tonight. Dipped for several hours, got wet from waves, and 2 of us ended up with a total of 3 smelt. It's an improvement from last weeks 2 smelt trip, but watching this video now is just crazy! When was this filmed? Had to be a while ago... there's been a 2 gallon limit for a few years now.

Used to drive over from Iron Mountain to Escanaba near some dam. Caught thousands.

Growing up we never saw many in sleeping bear bay. We also used to go to otter Creek.

i miss you fred.. I watched your show every week in my teens.. Zack could you please post more videos or tell me if there is a set a available for purchase? Man i would love to own a set and share them with my children

@jnsfaith7030

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Me as well. $200 400 those are priceless! Any outdoorsman worth his salt would give anything to have these videos!

That's crazy... I have to sit on the ice to catch them one at a time with hook and line. I'm glad to see they were not too greedy with them though. In my territory, we have a limit of 60 per day.

Love this vid .could someone please. Tell me do you eat them.? And how are they prepared?.

sure miss that show,fred was everymans outdoorsman.

I know there were legal issues with who has the rights to the video tapes, but if they are still around it would be awesome if they could be hosted on KZread. I think some money could be made monetizing the videos to make the effort worth it.

@jnsfaith7030

3 жыл бұрын

I will subscribe to pay for these!

unreal!

Good for you. Don't tell a soul or people will come and wipe them out. I'm a dipper from Oregon.

@Michigan-Outdoors

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Are they Native to Oregon? They are not to Michigan, were introduced into an inland lake in Lower Peninsula of Michigan, I think in the 1920's

Zachary where did you guys catches all these smelts? I would like to come and catches some to eat. Can you tell me what is the name of the river and what city is it?

those are some big healthy smelts too

Wow 140k views! Popular video!

@Michigan-Outdoors

2 жыл бұрын

It is not something you see everyday, that's for sure!

@livenfree

2 жыл бұрын

@@Michigan-Outdoors For sure! Shared it with a friend who's never been smelt dipping and now this is his expectation for smelt fishing! Im afraid he may be disappointed! He keeps telling me that we need to go dip for smelt like this. Well.. A big maybe.

glory days!!! I remember....

wow this is so amazing i wish i was there

The limit now is 2 gallons.

wow that is just amazing

Holy shit thats alot of smelts

I remember the glory days dipping up in leland you could fill a garbage can if you wanted too.. probably why there are not as many now, that and the salmon..

We don’t have those where I live. How do you eat them?

wow... does anyone know what year this episode was filmed in?

@Michigan-Outdoors

6 жыл бұрын

I will have to go back to the files and verify. I believe it was around 1996-98. When I have time I will try to get a more firm date for you.

Unreal...

i actually remember this episode...

So.....where's that stream??? Loved watching Fred with my dad growing up. My dad is gone now too. Great memories though.

what is a smelt? looks like a minnow, is it like a sardine? what do they taste like ?

@Michigan-Outdoors

8 жыл бұрын

That is an interesting question. I have only eaten them prepared in 2 ways that i recall. Deep fried and breaded and the other in a tomato type sauce but i think it was still fried. They are not at all like sardines they are not very fishy, the flesh is whte and firm. Along the lines of Bluegill/Brim. They are much larger than Minnows and are even caught through the ice in the winter on rods.

Sure do miss Fred

What time of year was this??

@Michigan-Outdoors

8 жыл бұрын

Early Spring

man where is this at???

@Michigan-Outdoors

6 жыл бұрын

All I know is that it is Somewhere in Michigan's Upper Penisula

That is what I call smelting.

@northernpike56 I did well last night off of Foster RD even got four walleyes for the night kicker

I could never have enough smelt. I'd eat them at least once a week the whole year.

@Michigan-Outdoors

4 жыл бұрын

For me, might be a bit much but at least once a month! So tasty!

Back when this was filmed (I'm guessing in the 1980's), there was no limit on smelt in Michigan. In 2016, the smelt limit in most of Michigan is 2 gallons.

@Michigan-Outdoors

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clarification of current regulations. Even so, the chances of finding Smelt you can dip during the day like this is very few and far between. Plus everything you dip, you have to clean.

@sirwinston2368

2 жыл бұрын

@@Michigan-Outdoors which means a pair of scissors to cut the head and slit the belly. You can clean 5-gallons pretty quick.

I bet that John Ford would remember what crek that is

@Michigan-Outdoors

6 жыл бұрын

He just might!

This trick will land you in jail here in Maine. For good reason, sure is nice to have smelt for our grandchildren.

@Michigan-Outdoors

5 жыл бұрын

I am not sure of the laws and Smelt fishery in Maine. In Michigan, Smelt were released in an inland lake around the 1920's. They eventually made it to most of Michigan's waterways. They have been declining for several years. But that is true for many invasive species. Anglers also fish for them on the ice on a few of our lakes. Some of these smelt get rather large, up to 12 inches.

fun ass fuck and looks awesome..

Check out the Bethel Alaska smelt videos. They are freaking monsters.

This is the reason why we no longer have any smelt running in Michigan Over fishing

@Michigan-Outdoors

3 жыл бұрын

LOL, Now that is funny, Sure this one afternoon of Smelt Dipping caused the down fall of Smelt. For the record they kept less than a 1/2 of a 5 gallon bucket. Actually by the early 90's, Smelt Populations had already nose-dived. Partially due to the fact, Smelt are an invasive species, they were introduced into Green lake in the Early 1900's. From there they worked there way all the way into the Great Lakes. Fishing pressure had nothing to do with the decline.

@zouhairsuleiman209

3 жыл бұрын

@@Michigan-Outdoors I wasn’t talking about them but others that took advantage of it, just like today going silver bass or white bass people take home hundreds of them and the limit is 25

@Michigan-Outdoors

3 жыл бұрын

No worries, I know what you are saying. We have limits and sizes set for a reason, when this is not followed you are correct it can have a very bad impact on populations.

Seems like their were some legal issues with how far upstream it is legal to dip smelt But still Miss you Fred R.I.P.

@Michigan-Outdoors

5 жыл бұрын

Not really sure about that? Thanks!

@mr.reality9741

4 жыл бұрын

Aren’t smelt an invasive species??

Omfg where is this????

@Michigan-Outdoors

3 жыл бұрын

A undisclosed location in Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Oh man give me some?

Great show, until he started the law portion.

"whitish milk" uhmmm im pretty sure thats sperm lol

we will never see smelt like that again

@Michigan-Outdoors

7 жыл бұрын

Never say never

@nwomoe6713

7 жыл бұрын

in northwestern ontario off lake superior this is still normal in alot of spots

Where tf is this stream

@mr.reality9741

4 жыл бұрын

Probably the U.P.

good dont

Thanks to the mismanagement of the DNR those days of bucket full of smelt are long gone, it's rare to limit out now. In another 10 or 20 years most hunting and fishing in Michigan will be nonexistent because they have politicians running the DNR and not scientists and sportsman. It's sad to see the sports dying.

They go up any stream So don't tell who cares

Fill the freezer.

Carp River?

@Michigan-Outdoors

6 жыл бұрын

He never told me.

@thepatriot8514

6 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear back from you Zack. I seen you on TV back in the day with your Dad. He was a Great Man! and a true advocate for Michigan's outdoors. I know you're proud of him and even I Am too that I had the privilege to watch him growing up. G-D Bless your family.

@Michigan-Outdoors

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Same goes to you and your family.

Limit 2 gallons?

@masoncarrier5259

8 жыл бұрын

No there is no limit

@williamfox3351

5 жыл бұрын

This episode was quite awhile ago. I think in the 90s

like he said, wasting fish or any other natural resource is a great shame. dont fish if you dont eat them.

I always liked you and your show, but catch and release is only damaging them.

@Michigan-Outdoors

4 жыл бұрын

Damaging what in particular?

Looks like it should be a protected stream