Human Scent and Fly Tying

[HappyFishers]

What do you guys do about it? Also, what do you do about it in the field?



HF

[Chromaflage]

Nothing. In fact, I fished with a guy last year that rubbed his nymphs on rocks and in weeds (Ithink he spent more time doing that than fishing :grin: ). Just to be ornrey, I spit on all my flies - I caught more fish than he did - in fact about double. (maybe I can bottle my saliva and sell it )

ORS

[ 11-15-2003, 07:01 PM: Message edited by: OregonRedside ]

[Grantspastor]

I agree...nothing is needed

[Mojo]

The natural materials used on most flies have their own smell. So do the synthetics. The nature of MOST fly fishing is a small morsel floating past at a fairly rapid rate, and the fish doesn't usually have time to sniff the fly. When stripping wet flies, again the bug is moving and the fish wouldn't necessarily have time to "sniff" the fly. Compare the surface area of a size 14 Adams to the surface area of a K-15 Kwikfish, that's gotta factor into it.

That being said, I have heard folks talk about human (and gasoline, sunscreen, or bug spray)scents before. I use a natural Cul de Canard oil flotant that Renee Harrop developed, and one of it's touted features is that it covers human scent. I'm not sure how many green drakes or blue winged olives smell like a duck's butt, but maybe every little thing helps. I'm not going to start washing my nymphs in algae (or OregonRedsides' spit) :grin: .