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Description
Smelt tents are lined up on frozen Patten Bay in Surry. The smelt tents were made of canvas stretched over a light framework of strapping, having a board floor with a long narrow slit about two or three feet long and ten inches wide across one side. A hole was cut in the ice the same size and through that opening the fisherman dropped six to eight worm baited lines.
Smelting ended in Surry in the 1960s.
About This Item
- Title: Smelt tents, Surry, ca. 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Surry, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Silver print photograph
- Dimensions: 10.795 cm x 6.35 cm
- Object Type: Image
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Surry Historical SocietyPO Box 17, Surry, ME 04684
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