Lola Shawnee

Duluth Smelt Run 2025. By the 1970s, the annual north shore smelt run had become legendary across minnesota, drawing thousands of smelters with their buckets, bags, bonfires and beer. Dressing up as a silver fish in late spring could become weird again.

Hundreds of participants gathered wearing. After eleven years of marches normalizing smelt fashion on the lake superior boardwalk, the annual run, smelt, run!