WD40 as a fish attractant????
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Topic: WD40 as a fish attractant????
Posted By: betterthanwork
Subject: WD40 as a fish attractant????
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2007 at 2:51pm
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I was speaking to someone today who reckons that WD40 is an excellent fish attractant spray for sps? Apparently it is fish oil based or something like that.
This could be one of those urban myths but thought I would put the topic out there for comment....
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Posted By: anglebox64
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2007 at 3:08pm
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yeap been told that too and seen it used by my mates father and he had got some good fish from wha i seen he was using pillies though lol im going to try it on some non sented soft baits over crissy lol ------------- fords the best F##k the rest |
Posted By: Badfish
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2007 at 8:07pm
I thought it only worked on the shazzas out west? well ya learn something new everyday 
Seems weird, but I guess the whole SP thing is a little weird i guess. You'll have to let us know if it works. ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: LEVCAT
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2007 at 8:08pm
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is that CRC WD40???
correct me if i am wrong. |
Posted By: phantomdeviant
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 6:02am
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Crc and WD40 are 2 different products Levcat. CRC competes with WD40. Post up some results anglebox64 ------------- Skirt Pulla |
Posted By: codstomper
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 6:48am
| Yeah we used to spray it on fish baits when I lived in the UK mainly when we were targeting dog-fish in competitions and it definitely seemed to make a difference. |
Posted By: Men In Black
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 7:25am
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If you want to try a cheap scent for SP's get some garlic infused olive oil, it is what they use in the USA on a lot of their SP's as it's non toxic and fish go nuts over it..... well all the Italian fish anyway.
MIB ------------- www.synit.co.nz |
Posted By: Hairy Little Dwarf
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 11:30am
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...and you can use lengths of macaroni with an olive as the jighead if you run out of SP's
------------- The Dreaded Shark-Eating Man! |
Posted By: Accident Prone
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 12:13pm
 what next?
Maybe I could spray some on my jigs, that way they can stay rust proofed and attract fish at the same time cause unscented jigs don't work either
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Posted By: cosmo
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 8:28pm
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its because of the kero same as the old lice trick if you are getting a lot of lice attacking yr BAIT (that smelly stuff before sps arrived) you put kero on it doesnt stop the snapps but the lice wont touch it.
blue and yellow can levicat same SORT OF PRODUCT as crc556 but better ------------- i just want to go fishing..........amd ignore all my adult problems |
Posted By: mackem
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 8:41pm
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An old boy told me the same thing thing years ago back in england , this was his big secret weapon , good ol wd 40. I must admit I tried it a few year back down in Kapiti , i used to keep my flasher rigs in plastic bags and spray them with wd40 but i never noticed any difference in catch rate. |
Posted By: studio1
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 8:47pm
hmm, fish probably feel the same urge i get when filling the car up 
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Posted By: Hermit
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2007 at 8:50pm
| I can remember years ago back fishing the west coast (Marakopa) the old man and pop used to soak liver in kero to use as bait before we got fresh stuff. This was in the handline days before solid glass rods came on the sean As the old albums confirm, many a good old snapper fell to this method - burnt hands and bolts for sinkers!!!!!!!!!!! |