Smoking fish is as old as fishing itself. Some techniques, and of course equipment, have evolved since our ancestors first tied a line to a stick, but some universal truths remain as relevant as ever.

ELBA — "Cast toward the shade," Michael Kimmel told his son, Logan Kimmel. Fish like being in the shade, the Edina dad explained as the boy fished for trout, or whatever bit, in the Whitewater River ...