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Here's an interesting report on smelt in Lake Superior from the May 1949 Thunder Bay Field Naturalists newsletter, which I stumbled across when looking for something completely unrelated. Provides an interesting perspective from a time when smelt were newly arrived in Lake Superior, but does make note of mass die-offs. see pages 2-3 http://www.tbfn.net/assets/files/Newsletters/May_1949.pdf

Hey guys, great thread, nice fish. New to Thunder Bay from southern Ontario and would like to try some Salmon fishing on the big lake. I don't have downriggers but do have dipsy's that I used for trolling Walleye on Lake Erie. Just wondering what you are using for lures and where's a good place to buy them.

Everything has it's place. This is a pretty cool video about the unexpected benefits a species might have. Yellowstone park reintroduced wolves and it completely changed the entire ecosystem. The environment is extremely complex and it's very hard to predict what type of impact seemingly small things can have. I tend to only kill stuff I plan on eating, or I eat stuff I inadvertently kill. I didn't even kill ruffe unless I gut hooked them. Now you are supposed to kill them. As of November 2016, Ruffe got added to the "destroy upon capture" part of the regs. I am tempted to find out if they are any decent eating... but I think that could be a very bad idea