Customers descend a hill to the Kennebec River at Baker’s Smelt Camps in Pittston on Sunday.

Jeff Lizzotte, of Winslow, holds a mess of smelt he caught while fishing at Baker’s Smelt Camps in Pittston on Sunday. Lizzotte and his buddy, Chris Begin of Farmington, each took home about 60 of the fish during their early morning excursion to the Kennebec River.

Jeff Lizzotte, of Winslow, checks a line while fishing at Baker’s Smelt Camps in Pittston on Sunday.

Katie Baker selects bait worms to be sold at her family’s Pittston business, Baker’s Smelt Camps, on Sunday. Anglers renting a shack purchase a bag of the worms to hook rainbow smelt.