WD-40 for a fish attractant

[Fever]

Wow. From the begining this thread has come along way. From WD-40 - Preperation H. to Pee... Impressive. Like I said, personally the scents I use are made for that purpose and to be honest I usually use them on soft platics while fishing for largemouth in the summer. Some of these posts though got me thinking. Alot of folks brought up fish oils and adding them must be the attractant. Either masking or being the actual attractant It makes sense that they may work. The Gulp alive and the variety of other scents must do the same. It got me to think... what about real sardine or oyster type oils to dip your presentation in. I like to eat that kind of stuff so it would be accessable. Also, a trick I used a while back that I got too lazy to keep up with... When cleaning crappies, scrape scales off, and keep in a small container and mix with distilled water (no chlorine), When you catch your first crappie near that hot bite time or shortly after hot bite time starts to cool off drop fish scales into water. It is intended to trigger feeding response in fish. Think about it, have you ever seen a fish eat another fish? Scales fluttering in water and coming out the gill plates... Heck, maybe mixing the scales with the sardine oil is the ticket... I just figured it out! I should market that stuff and put my kids to work... That Pee post and the PH post did make me laugh... Good stuff.

[Sonicrunch]

lol @ this thread.

[mtbucket]

All kidding aside, I think that if the makers of WD-40 believed that there was even a grain of truth to the old rumors, and using it that way was not detrimental to the environment, they would be aggressively marketing it for that application. I am sure that they have been aware of the rumors for many years, and they do know the ingredients, past and present.

Back to kidding, hot dogs are the best tip-up bait for northerns. The skin on varities are best.

[jBohmer]

It did not take to long for the all of the postings. Frankly I am impressed with all of the posts, except for the illeagal posession guy. I was expecting a bunch of whining from people but instead came a lot of intersting ideas. I personally think that it is has something to do with the trail left from the lure that the fish follow for whatever reason. Just a guess from what I read here.