Do you gas up your truck/vehicle and the boat? Do you wash your hands of gasoline after your done filling up the gas tank? Do you ever wear rubber gloves to cover your hands and prevent gasoline fumes/scent from getting on your hands. If you get gasoline on your hands it will effect your fishing trip negatively. That's a known fact. And if you get it on your hands and don't wash it off it will transfer to your baits. Fish can smell a tiny amount of gasoline on your bait and get turned off and not bite them. Even live bait fishermen know this. Also the size and diameter and the type of line can effect the bite. Clear line like Fluorocarbon line disappears in clear water. Choose a fishing line that has the same refractive index as water and you bite at Patoka will increase.
I remember as a kid fishing a local swimming lake that also allowed fishing in the non swimming areas. I would drag a plastic worm though the shallow water and sight fish for small 1 lb and 1/2 lb LM bass. They looked interested in the bait but the worms back in the 1960's had the hooks exposed. There were two sets of hooks buried in the worm and the worms were not like they are today. They didn't flex and wiggle like todays softer plastic worms. And I didn't use any scents on the worms back them. I could watch the bass approach and then get turned off and not bite or try to inhale the worms. The fish probably could see me as I could definitely see them along the edge of the water. I was just a kid in Grade School back then. I didn't think about scent and how it effected the fish.
Originally Posted by najerry
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