Zachary McNaughton’s father taught him how to fish at a young age, and he is passing that tradition on to his 6-year-old son, Fisher. Zachary also publishes educational fishing videos to his YouTube channel, Vermont Master Anglers, including a few videos featuring smelt fishing and how to cook smelt. Rainbow smelt are small forage fish used for bait and sometimes eaten. Eva met up with Zachary, Fisher and Shawn Good, a fish biologist from Vermont Fish & Wildlife, at a frozen lake in Plymouth for an ice fishing adventure after dark.

Read a behind-the-scenes interview with Eva about the making of this video.

Filming date: 2/1/23

Music: Chris Haugen, “Green Green Garden”

This episode of Stuck in Vermont was supported by New England Federal Credit Union.