Bait Enhancer

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:31 pm

Bait Enhancer 8O

do they work or not been toying on the idear of it,i know there are messy but do they realy WORK :?: :?: :?:

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If you're talking about oils, I think that there is some merit in it. I've tried mackeral strips marinated in fish oil and in some circumstances, it can help. Anything which helps increase the scent trail has to be good.

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WD40

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:55 pm

Concentrated pilchard oil, either dabbed on the bait or better still contained in a small canister (like a swimfeeder used in freshwater fishing) stuffed with cottonwool, will provide a constant scent trail second to none. Particularly good at attracting cod in winter.

Tight Lines.

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:54 am

concrete wrote:

WD40

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Limey1 wrote:

concrete wrote:

WD40

:lol: :lol: :lol:

This was quite a widely used idea at one time. It was taken seriously enough to be covered in the angling press. A lot of people think the smell of the WD40 covers the scent of human hands, but it is probably more likely that the emulsifiers contained in the spray help to fix the oil modules of the bait to the water and create a better spread of scent from the hookbait, thereby covering more ground.

Oils etc placed near the hookbait are a good idea but forget the constant scent trail....in a good tide it can be shortlived as rather than spread in the current, they tend to float to the surface - many of the West Country Shark Boats (which regularly used chum lines to draw in the Sharks) use to add food industry emulsifiers to their mixes to ensure a better scent trail - WD40 would do the same thing to a pot near the lead weight. Incidentially, 35mm film cannisters make a better job than a swimfeeder and you can vary the number of holes in them to ensure that the scent trail doesn't get washed out too quickly. I've used these but not found (so long as you are using decent bait on the hook) that they made any noticeable difference.

Another idea which worked much better for me was to set up a film cannister between lead and main line with a dozen shot in it - called a "cod rattler", they certainly seemed to result in a few more Cod, drawing in the fish who supposedly investigated the vibrations from the rattling shot.

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Given that Blakdog always smells like that, is it because he bathes in emulsifier? The dog I meant. :lol: :lol:

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They share bathwater.

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Edgey wrote:

Given that Blakdog always smells like that, is it because he bathes in emulsifier? The dog I meant. :lol: :lol:

If only we could get him anywhere near a bath of some kind it would be a blessing. My wife did try to get him in the shower once which was absolutely hilarious to watch and resulted in her going head first into the shower (fully clothed) and him heading out of the back door with the pot of dog shampoo in his mouth. We never did find the dog shampoo, wherever he'd hidden it he'd made damn sure he wasn't going to be on the recieving end.

Nowadays we settle for taking him out in the rain! :lol:

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ScreamingReels wrote:

They share bathwater.

We then bottle it and sell it to tescos as "labrador spring". Watch out for it....its on the shelf next to the guiness.

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:23 pm

theres a lot in this, wd40 was a supprize 8O , i was thinking on the lines of injecting the baits. :?:

:idea: seen the rattal thing in lures on the tv,wouldent of thought of doing it on the main line,might give that a go. :idea:

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2e0ikh wrote:

theres a lot in this, wd40 was a supprize 8O , i was thinking on the lines of injecting the baits. :?:

:idea: seen the rattal thing in lures on the tv,wouldent of thought of doing it on the main line,might give that a go. :idea:

If I remember rightly, the cod rattler thing goes back to the 60's and I remember reading about it in, I think, Angler Magazine in the 70s - actually a bit of glue, plastic and a film cannister and you could probably combine the two ideas in one. Beware though, they catch the tide and cut down on your casting distance.

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This will surprise you.

Moses parted the seas in Galillee by walking along the beach spraying WD40 between the waves.

As we all know WD stands for "Water Displacement" and as the saying goes "it does what it says on the tin".

So where does this leave us with bait enhancer?

Aha

When Jesus said "cast your lines over to the right" - he actually sprayed the bait with WD40 as the fishermen casted out when they weren't looking.

:lol:

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Hence the now immortal WD-40 ad. I always wondered where that came from.

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Blackdog,

that last post was

BRILLIANT