WD-40 as fish attractant ?

I thought that they used petroleum distilates in WD 40?

I read where using Cod Liver Oil works good as a fish attractant.

I picked up some cod liver oil at Walmart in the pharmacy section. The oil comes in small plastic capsules. You can take out one pill and poke a tiny hole in the shell and then squeeze the cod liver oil out of it onto your baits.

One of the fishing guides on the internet gave out that tip.

Some other guys have been using Mineral oil on their plastic jigs or maybe it was Baby Oil? I think that the Cod Liver oil would work better.


Regards,

Moose1am

I WAS TOLD IF YOU GET CAUGHT USING WD40 THE GAME WARDEN WILL FINE YOU!

I though WD-40 was a solvent, and like Moose, I thought it was made with petroleum disllates. If so, it should desolve your soft plastic baits, and is likely to hurt the finish on your crankbaits.

Never the less, I have heard that tale about it working as a fish attractant for years. I've never tried it, and doubt I will anytime soon.

Tight lines and God Bless

Danny

>I though WD-40 was a solvent, and like Moose, I thought it
>was made with petroleum disllates. If so, it should desolve
>your soft plastic baits, and is likely to hurt the finish on
>your crankbaits.
>
>Never the less, I have heard that tale about it working as a
>fish attractant for years. I've never tried it, and doubt I
>will anytime soon.
>
>Tight lines and God Bless
>
>Danny


EXACTLY !! .... WD stands for "Water Displacement" (ie. it sheds water/moisture). My reply info was taken from MSDS sites and Hazmat information, as well as from previous discussions on another board (and from reading product info straight off the WD-40 site, itself).

Here's the MSDS for WD-40 (aerosol can).... NOTICE that, in section #2, it lists the ingredients -- and plainly states that 86% of the ingredients are considered "Hazardous" !! This is straight off the WD-40 home website !! Here's the link (it's a PDF) - [url]http://www.wd40.com/Brands/pdfs/msds-wd40_aerosol.us.pdf[/url]

......... cp

Ok guys...put the WD-40 on your hitch ball and get out there and fish like the pros you are....shouldn't need it on ya hook if ya can fish!!!!!!

Good idea to put it on the ball hitch and other rusty parts. Those need to have the water displaced from their surfaces to prevent them from rusting.

I'll continue to use my crappie nibbles from Berkley and my Dr. Juice which contains minnow fear pheromones that are suppose to make the fish like bass more aggressive. Pheromones are given off by certain animals as a sex attractant. Modern Chemistry has identified these molecules and produced some of them synthetically. These sex pheromones are no use in some insect traps. The idea is that you can trap all the males of the species and then radiate them and make them sterile. Then if you release all the sterile males back into the wild they will make with the females and not fertilize the females and this will break the insects life cycle. Certain moths can smell the other sex from long distances and are attracted by the sex pheromones given off by the opposite sex. So these chemical messengers are very powerful indeed. Dr Juice was researched by this guy who spend time out in the field trying different substances that worked in attracting fish. He studied salmon and found that if a bear waded into a stream that all the salmon downstream from the bear could smell the bear in the water and they would all suddenly disappear.

Well Dr Juice sold my dad and he convinced me to try some. I have to say it worked great. Our catches of Large mouth bass increased back in the mid 1980s when we started using Dr Juice. This was long before Berkley started selling all the new scents and Yum was not even a though then. The only competition that Dr Juice had back then was LIVE BAIT.

I would think that fish can smell offensive odors and that it might repel them. Humans are said to give off a chemcial called Lysine. (sp?) I may have this chemical name wrong but I am close. hehe. This chemcial is said to scare the fish. It's the same type of chemcial that's given off by other mammals that prey on fish. Fish associate this with danger according to some of the stuff I have read over the years. And some people, mostly males, give off more of this lysine than others. Females have less of this in their bodies. So this may explain why sometimes the women out fish the men. LOL It may be just a bunch of Hog wash but I wonder if it may be true.

I still wash my hands often when fishing to help remove any offensive odors that I may have picked up. Gasoline for example when I fill up the truck or boat before a trip. Does not hurt to take precautions like washing your hands before you start fishing. Might even help you catch more fish.

OH BTW. If you take a college course in Fish or Ichthyology and study the anatomy of the fish you will see that a large part of a fish's brain is devoted to the sense of SMELL. That tells me something!
Regards,

Moose1am

One more comment.... No one questions Blakemore's Real Magic, however, under the WARNING tag is says "Contains petroleum distillates for propellant and carrier only". I personnaly belief, although, can never prove (secrets of manufacturing)that WD-40 and Real Magic are relatively the same. That being said maybe its less of a fish attractant and more of a human scent cover-up/eliminater, therefore making it relavent as a useful tool when it comes to fishing.

>One more comment.... No one questions Blakemore's Real
>Magic, however, under the WARNING tag is says "Contains
>petroleum distillates for propellant and carrier only".
>I personnaly belief, although, can never prove (secrets of
>manufacturing)that WD-40 and Real Magic are relatively the
>same. That being said maybe its less of a fish attractant and
>more of a human scent cover-up/eliminater, therefore making it
>relavent as a useful tool when it comes to fishing.
IMHO! BINGO. That is also my opinion.

I think you got that right. Reel Magic is a petroleum distillate as a carrier only. It said that it's ODORLESS when Dry.

I am going to assume that the stuff evaporates quickly. But it's got to leave some type of residue on the fishing line.

I was using this stuff on my fishing lines by spraying it onto the line as it was on the reels. I may stop doing that now

This could explain why I have not caught many fish while casting jigs the last two years.

Mostly I was spraying reel magic on my ultra light reels that I used to cast light weight jigs. I was always getting tangles caused by a loop in my line. The loop would always form and then get wound over by more line without me noticing what was going on. The ensuring cast would invariably get a loop caught in the line and make a mess.

One of the guys on another web site told me about Reel Magic a few year ago.

I never have used it on my lures though. But man if it's on the line then it's in the water and could effect the fish. I know the fish can detect stuff in the water. Whether it pushes fish away or what I don't know. I now wonder if fish associate the smell of petroleum distillates with humans? Man you never know. I doubt they are that smart to put two and two together but why take the chance.

I'm thinking of changing out my lines this winter anyway.

The side of the can says it's Environmentally Safe - No Fluorocarbons. Now this is funny to me. Fluorocarbons are the things that were blamed for the destruction of the High Earth Ozone layer. This was said to be destroying the ozone. The Fluorocarbon atoms were acting like catalysts in that they speed up the reaction or destruction of O3 atoms but didn't really get eaten up themselves. The Fluorocarbon atoms were not destroyed or used up in the process. So while it's true that the Reel Magic is saving the Ozone layer in the Stratosphere it's not helping the water if there are petroleum distillates in it.

The Environment is one big place. :) So maybe it's not always true that Reel Magic is safe for the Environment. It would be more clear if they would say that Reel Magic won't harm the Earth's Ozone layer and just leave it at that simple saying. Funny how the marketing guys do a play on words without knowing the total effects.

Maybe if it's a human scent eliminator I can package some petroleum distilates and sell it as a human scent eliminator for deer hunters? :)

You guys may be onto something. Petroleum distilates sure smells better than skunk juice! :(((





Regards,

Moose1am:+ :+

This stuff is petroleum based also. I would think it would have the same issues as WD-40.

I do know the dope makes a HUGE difference when catching those monster smallies on the fly.

Later,

Geo

Will Reel Magic leave a sent behind if you use it on your spinnerbait and jig skirts?