Scent of a woman and fish??

Sublime · 01-03-2003, 02:58 PM

Okay, I've heard that women have a chemical in their hands that attract fish. Does anybody have any information on this? I'd like to find out more.

Thanks
Sublime

HOGTIDE · 01-03-2003, 03:03 PM

All I know is from my own experience. Anchor fishing in the big river, my daughters and my wife will outfish me about 2 to 1. I use identical riggin's most of the time.

...I figure the fish just plain don't care to be killed by some homely dude.

Scott B · 01-03-2003, 03:15 PM

My wife usually out fishes me. But it is hard to say whether or not it is due to a chemical or what. I usually do the baiting for my wife and I usually wear latex gloves since I smoke. Maybe she is the better fisher person.

Bobby Ray · 01-03-2003, 03:17 PM

Can this be true, I heard that women have some pheromones that drive men crazy but Fish?

Maybe I'll have my Wife and Daughter cure some eggs for me

BnB

You Betcha · 01-03-2003, 03:18 PM

My wife outfishes me 3 or 4 to one when we are perch fishing. :grin: And I am the one putting worms on and taking fish off her line. [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img] I guess my excuse is that I am busy with her fish when
the bite is hot. :whazzup: Yes, that's it and I am sticking to it!!

RogueFishr · 01-03-2003, 03:24 PM

I don't know if it as much of "women have something that attracts fish" as "women have LESS of something that repells fish". I read something on this a few years ago and it is an amino acid put out by the skin (called L Serine if I remember right). Women produce less of it naturally than men. Of course I could be remembering this all wrong and have it all messed up, in which case diregard this whole post :grin:

RF

Timber · 01-03-2003, 04:00 PM

The berkley home page used to have a interesting article on l-serine I believe the story was titled how well can a fish smell.it was very interesting after you read it it will make you want to wear rubber gloves

MarlinMark · 01-03-2003, 04:16 PM

Yes, the chemical is l-serine. I heard that they did a study of the top so many bass fishers in a tournament and found that there was a correlation between the amount of l-serine and the better the finnish in the competition. (less = higher finnish).

Mark

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Drachir · 01-03-2003, 04:21 PM

This year @ Bouy 10, my wife learned how to plug cut the Herring, and bait up the hooks. I can testify that even with her baiting the hooks, she still outfished me, 3 to 1!! :shocked: I think it's just great, I love it when she shows me how to put fish in the boat. [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] I love the big smile it puts on her beautiful face!! :grin:

Kilgore · 01-03-2003, 04:30 PM

Reading this reminded how my niece always outfished the rest of the fishing veteran guys. She would only fish a couple times a year when we went fishing as a group, and she's got quite limited fishing knowledge and skills. But when it comes to catching a rare fish (like catching a lingcod when everybody is catching rockfish or catching a native brown trout when the rest of us are catching stocked rainbows) or quantity of fish or the largest fish of the day, she always seems to come out on top. Her older brother who's much more fishing savvy than she is finally gave up trying to tell her how to fish, out of embarrasement.