Description: English: Illustrations of Hypomesus pretiosus (surf smelt) and Hypomesus olidus (pond smelt), labelled as California Surf Smelt and Alaska Surf Smelt, respectively. Date: Creation date unknown to uploader ManfromButtonwillow (talk) 01:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC). Source: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/figb0467.htm. Author: Drawing by H. L. Todd, NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection. Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Surf smelt illustration.jpgPond smelt illustration.jpg.