Smelt fried in vegetable oil in egg and flour

Favorite St. Petersburg fish! Tasty and appetizing! Well, there is no recipe for frying smelt. Why fry it, throw it in oil and it’s ready. But if you really, really want it, I’ll tell you how to cook smelt deliciously. The most important thing here is to buy the fish on time, while it is still smelt and not evil capelin. Smelt, it is tender, beautiful, all as if silver, translucent. But this is while it is going to spawn, but after spawning it is already capelin, and the silver on its sides disappears, and its transparency is lost. And they catch it exclusively in April. While the water is still cold, it moves to spawn and approaches the shore, so that you can take it with your bare hands, unless it slips out - it’s slippery after all, an infection.