Smelly hands
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: The Briny Bar
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Printed Date: 03 Jul 2026 at 8:17am
Topic: Smelly hands
Posted By: shed
Subject: Smelly hands
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 9:57pm
| What's the best stuff for removing the fish smell (pilchards esp) from your hands after a days fishing? Anyone got any secret recipes? |
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Posted By: Olfart
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:00pm
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Lemon juice (or any fresh citrus juice) Or pinch some of the wife's vanilla essence from the larder  Better yet...stay away from the stinky bait!  ------------- Semper in excreta sumus, solum profundum variat.... |
Posted By: Karlosnz
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:01pm
Use soft plastics 
On a more serious note there is a CRC product out there that i seem to remember working pretty well, cant remember the name?
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Posted By: shed
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:06pm
Soft plastics? I normally prefer the cold steel of a spear! But sometimes I end up being bait btch. Thanks for the suggestions. 
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Posted By: Marauder
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:10pm
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toothpaste, buy a couple of tubes of the standard white colgate toothpaste or any cheap brand and keep them spare. its like a cut and polish for you hands, and then just use soap to get the excess paste and minty smell of your hands. but this has been the best remedy i have come across |
Posted By: Olfart
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:11pm
Just had a squiz in the cupboard... the CRC product is called ODA - KILL (forgot I had it there.....it's been a while since I came home with smelly fingers) ------------- Semper in excreta sumus, solum profundum variat.... |
karlosnz wrote:Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:11pm
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baking soda mixed with a bit of water to form a paste and then rub your hands vigourously and then wash off under water.
And believe it or not another goody is toothpaste. ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: part-timer
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:38pm
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this is timely.... I have found that after a good session of fishing, with fish guts under your nails for a few days .. the best thing to get rid of that fishy smell is to go get a few ducks this weekend.. after gutting a few, presto! the fish smell is all gone.!!. its amazing.. |
Posted By: Tagit
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 10:49pm
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Two options that I know. Both work, but one is a little more painful than the other.
Option 1 - mix sugar and dishwash liquid in the palm of one hand and then rub them together. Works well for oil and stuff as well.
Option 2 - walk in the door, kiss the wife/gf and rub your hands clean on whatever part of her anatomy or clothing you can grab. Once she punches you in the nose a couple of times the smell will be gone.
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Posted By: tobez
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 11:07pm
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or...get the soapy water out and clean your boat, the time you spend washing down the boat withyour hands soaking in it will ge rid of the smell..or ..tagits option B ------------- Waikato North Harbourmaster...Got a Nav Safety question for the Waikato region?...call me 021705642 or download the app Marine Mate! |
Posted By: chimpa
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 11:11pm
| have you's tried those baby nappie wipes ? i mean if they can cover up a baby's nuclear wastes it sure can get rid of the fishy smell :D |
Posted By: Naki man
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 11:16pm
Only one thing worse than smelly fish hands - yep you guessed it smelly duck gut hands, especially if they've been gut shot and did I mention the farrrts - fish smells all gone  ------------- The solution to any problem - work, money, love, whatever - is to go fishing - the worse the problem the longer the fishing trip should be. "I have a lot of very large problems" |
Posted By: ThomasW
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2009 at 11:25pm
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There is a product sold in many fishing stores which works, it does smell a bit strange for a little while but removes the fish smell.
This is the product. One for use with Saltwater, the other with fresh. http://www.discountfishingsupplies.co.nz/shop/anti-fish-hands-freshwater-handcleanser-p-1837.html - http://www.discountfishingsupplies.co.nz/shop/anti-fish-hands-freshwater-handcleanser-p-1837.html http://www.discountfishingsupplies.co.nz/shop/anti-fish-hands-saltwater-handcleanser-p-1838.html - http://www.discountfishingsupplies.co.nz/shop/anti-fish-hands-saltwater-handcleanser-p-1838.html |
Posted By: biggear
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 6:34am
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Truth be told guys, you dont want all the smell gone. Theres nothing better than being at work on a tuesday and catching a whiff of fish smell left over from saturday and reminiscing about your last trip instead of working. ------------- Dont let the grey hair fool you! |
Posted By: JigNut
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 6:38am
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Posted By: Les Groper
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 6:43am
| Ajax spray n wipe. I use it for cleaning up in general and it neutralises fish odors on anything. Spray it on your hands, wait for the burning sensation to last 30 seconds or so and wash it off. |
Posted By: phantomdeviant
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 6:51am
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Oda kil seams to do a reasonable job
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Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 7:33am
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Toothpaste just replaces the smell with something else.
Anything citrus based with cold water will work.
Cold water best as it doesnt open up the pours of the skin and absorb the fishy smell even further. ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: H8_4DS
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 7:43am
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wash hands under cold water with stainless steel. Get a piece of stainless flat bar. approx 100 x 80 x 6mm. round off edges and rub over hands under cold water. you will be amazed at how good it works. Even gets ground in garlic smell from skin. I tried it out when one of my Chef mates told me about it.
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Posted By: Marauder
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 8:42am
| can you still buy the soap with sand or grit in it. remeber using it when after going fishing with my dad when i was younger and it seemed to pass the mother test most times. |
Posted By: ocka
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 8:44am
 Try the brand new 'SMELL REMOVER', it's called VANISH, apparently you spray it all over yourself and dissapear !!!! Then everyone wonders where the stink is coming from.------------- I'm the reason they call it FISHING--- Not CATCHING. |
Posted By: bluecoraldiver
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 10:15am
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STAINLESS STEEL SOAP really works as one of the other members mentioned. You can get it from specialist knife shops. I have one that looks like this:
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/6/61259/43_2008/e82672c7aa3796f7_stainlessteelsoap.jpg - http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/6/61259/43_2008/e82672c7aa3796f7_stainlessteelsoap.jpg
Available from here and maybe Stevens shops:
http://www.tablepride.co.nz/cs/prodDetails.asp?idproduct=869 - http://www.tablepride.co.nz/cs/prodDetails.asp?idproduct=869
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Posted By: Moggy
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 10:32am
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boy you guys are soft or what
Leave the smell there and "she" (SWMBO) will send you out fishing again - or a leave pass to go fishing just to get you out of the house and stop smelling up the place.
Tagits option 2 sounds interesting but not sure I'm game to go 1 round with mine... broken bits tend to make it hard to fish! ------------- People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it! FISH FIGHT The Peoples Protest |
Posted By: JK
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 10:52am
Yep that sure does work. Wife gave me one of those stainless steel soaps and I keep it in the car as its perfect to cleaning up after those messy landbased missions and can be done with cold salt water. ------------- LedgeNZ LBG |
Posted By: Finatic
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 11:00am
Use softbaits! 
These two work... • Laundry powder rubbed on hands and rinsed under cold water • Handful of sand, rub over hands and rinsed in sea ------------- What's the cheapest type of meat? Dear balls. They're under a buck. |
Posted By: NZFisher
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 12:19pm
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if you're interetsed, e-mail me on mailto:[email protected] - [email protected]
$7.50 per pack plus P&P. (30 Large wipes per pack)
limited numbers at present. But damn they're good!
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Posted By: jamesdaulton
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 1:44pm
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There is an orange and pumice hand cleaner avaliable at mitre ten mega's in a big pump pack - orange does the citrus cleaning - pumice works as an abrasive. Works really well and is quite cheap.
It's in a big orange plastic container - but I can't remember the brand
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Posted By: girl friday
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 4:52pm
Two pages on hand washing?....I didn't know Kiwi blokes took this so seriously ...no outbreaks of swine flu here then
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Posted By: bluecoraldiver
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 5:54pm
So you don't mind your man carressing you at night with fishy hands then? ------------- http://www.leapingdroid.com">
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Posted By: JigNut
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 6:15pm
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Quiet easy really..........Don't go fishing and no smelly hands ------------- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-Of-Synit-Rods/137662896327800 |
Posted By: nubjig
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 7:44pm
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washing powder is a good one, also works for getting oil off hands and driveways too!
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Posted By: feeder
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 7:52pm
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Equal parts dishwashing liquid and autowashing machine powder, best handcleaner, deoderiser you can get, but by the jesus cuts sting like no tomorrow.
Cheers ------------- The only bar to frequent is the Kawhia Bar |
Posted By: pland
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 8:52pm
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Purell works a treat ------------- pland |
Posted By: Jake76
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2009 at 9:11pm
| whats the theory behind the stainless steel soap |
Posted By: kingyqueen
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 9:02am
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Posted By: Blue Legend
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 9:07am
| Toothpaste |
Posted By: Pockets
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 11:57am
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A mix of dsihwashing liquid and washing powder like feeder says works great on just about everything, and get warm too as the active ingredient in the washing powder trys to eat through your hands ------------- 90 percent of fishing tackle is made to catch fishermen, not fish |
Posted By: girl friday
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 12:08pm
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So you don't mind your man carressing you at night with fishy hands then? [/QUOTE]Mmm.. manly hands ....moving right along then....------------- www.charterconnection.co.nz |
Posted By: A C
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 2:50pm
Mmm.. manly hands ....moving right along then....[/QUOTE] What about rummy breath ? last time Damo stumbled out of the loo at piglet's wedding you red carded him and took him home ................ he was only on to his third pint of rum 'n coke ------------- Aye-Aye cloth eyes. |
Posted By: girl friday
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 2:58pm
What about rummy breath ? last time Damo stumbled out of the loo at piglet's wedding you red carded him and took him home ................ he was only on to his third pint of rum 'n coke [/QUOTE] Sometimes AC the referee has to look after the half back especially when the "tight five" are involved ------------- www.charterconnection.co.nz |
Posted By: Boulder
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 3:02pm
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Fair call ref the tight 5 are all bad bad men
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Posted By: phil32180
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 8:00pm
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interesting thread guys. I have been working with a NZ company that is about to bring a natural handcleaner to the fishing market. It cleans and deodorises and can be used in saltwater or freshwater - using hot or cold water. Its called Zeosoft - uses a local active mineral called Zeolite. All the trials with fishermen have come back saying it works well. Website being built so can't point you there yet. If anyone is interested in being sent a free sample just email me on mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] and will pass onto to the guys to send you some product.
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Posted By: Grunta
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2009 at 8:48pm
| Nice one Phil - there's a good offer right there. Hope it goes well for you and even better to hear that it's coming from GodZone! |
Posted By: biggear
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2009 at 9:16am
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Free samples...........nice. I know of a certain boatload of fellas heading off to the three kings soon that could certainly do some sea trials for you. ------------- Dont let the grey hair fool you! |
Posted By: Phecda
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2009 at 9:46am
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Bunch of Whiffders (soreee couldnt help it...)
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