Hey I watched that to....very interesting....

 

But I love smoking cigars when I fish. Say it aint so.....

 

One of the most productive guides on a coastal river seldom wears gloves, and always has a lit cigarette going. His friends refer to his boat as "the floating ashtray". I have watched from afar as he put eggs and shrimp on his clients hooks, while standing over the bait tray with ashes falling into the eggs. The guy must reek of cig smoke, and yet they usually get their clients into multiple fish time after time.

 

I have a friend ... he instructs guest on his boat not to wear clothes that have scent on them, shy's away from dogs, won't let other animals (dogs, cats) near his boat, has made a friend wash off scent from his shaving creme ... you get the picture, yet he fires up a cigarette all day long and catches fish ... don't get it

 

I took a guy fishing with me that chewed tobacco, and every time he would spit in the water a fish would jump in the same spot where his spit was. Made me think of putting some chew on my hook, or not!:shrug:

 

I took a guy fishing with me that chewed tobacco, and every time he would spit in the water a fish would jump in the same spot where his spit was. Made me think of putting some chew on my hook, or not!🤷

Put some Red Man Chew in a little bit of water until it is gooey. Wakes the big crappie slabs up😎

 

Alot of people who chew spit on their bait. Might be the Mint flavor? They seem to do well.

 

I love smoked food. Dont you? The cigarette does work as an excellent cover scent.
I believe bits of smoky flavor occur naturally in wine, oysters, and fish.

 

My Dad smokes swisher's like a chimney, and always spits on his bait. It never stopped him from outfishing me and my nitrile gloves.

 

I think you're okay analfin -- I had a day in early fall where the guys next to me were smoking cigars all day and put a fish on every hour...the rest of us only wished we were doing as well. They would wash a lure occassionally, but for the most part didn't worry about it.

They were, however, using a little "secret scent" on the lures themselves... I think putting a cover scent in the water is the real secret.

I've been religious about the scent thing for a couple of years -- gloves, soap, etc...I think there's a benefit...but, I went out a few weeks ago and experimented. I didn't wash my hands or lures, smoked cigars, and I still hooked into a fallie.

So, I don't know what to conclude other than you can still catch fish while not worrying about scent, but my bet is you'll catch more if you do. Besides, nitrile gloves are so cheap these days, and it's pretty nice to be able to take off the gloves and eat a sandwich without egg cure flavoring.

The good news is: cigars on the boat won't kill your chances!

SC

 

Unfortunately my dad is a smoker also and he's a fish-catching sucker!!:yay:

 

I smoked up until 4 years ago and never wore gloves. I am a bobber/egg fisherman and have always done well. (Except this year!!!) My friend that chews cope, has outfished me ever year. I finally broke down and bought a can, (as a joke) just to dip my fingers in a couple of years ago. I landed 19 fish the first day I did that! No joke. They were all medium to dark fish in upper tidewater. So I kept that can for several weeks until I dropped it in into the bloody/eggy/shrimpy water on the floor of my 14 foot aluminum boat. I was bummed! So was my buddy because he was out of chew.. (Although if it was me, I wouldnt take a chew out of a can that some guy with egg juiced fingers was digging around in lol...)
I bought another can, but it just never worked again like the first time..I still have that dried up can in my t/box.. I havent tried it this year, maybe I should, fishing has been DISMAL!

 

I dip my smokes in lemon joy, then let'em sit and dry overnight on banana peels....on a serious note my buddy smokes like a ******* chimney...slays'em with hardware, bait, you name it...I think it has more to do with skill???

 

Isn't it truly about consistently finding the fish(not that I do) and putting it in front of their nose.... an inferior bait at the right depth will out fish a perfect bait in the wrong spot most of the time.

B

 

I used to wash my hands with Lemon Joy after a dip of copenhagen when I was sturgeon fishing.

Yesterday, I forgot the lemon joy! but I wasn't about to fish without a chew in......annnnd we flat out nailed the fish!

:yay:

 

If you want to see something interesting. Take a can of chew and put it in front of your dogs nose.... They're not found of it either.

With that said - I'm rarely found on the river w/ out a redman in... seem to bonk a few fish and i spit on all my knots. I do try to avoid using the same hand to pull out a chew as I bait up with though.

 

In the mid-20th century, it was widely believed that chewing tobacco and spitting on a bait or lure was a sure-fire way to attract fish. So much so that young anglers would get a block of chew and make themselves physically ill in order to do so.

'Sound far fetched? That's why Redman sponsored the early bass fishing tournaments.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

~MT

 

Well heck, next time i'm out i'll bring my cope, and a bag of beechnut! that should get it done well. :smash:

 

I can see it now people keeping the kwickfish in bads of redman. People buy sent bottles to fill from the spitoon haha as said above you get the thing in front of them most the time they will hit it smoked or not rp

 

I like smoking Backwoods and seems like the fish like them too. I've been the only person on the boat a number of times catching fish. I get skunked without them.

 

Nothing to do with fishing but, way back many years ago when I was still chewing cope. I was bow hunting elk. Had a big bull coming my way, got tired of waiting so thought I would put in a fresh chew. Opened the lid,,,,,,,and guess what that big ol bull turned and left the country. It had to be the chew.

 

I know this woman who smoked cigarettes one day like a chimney. Anyway, she was one of the only people who caught fish that day. She caught 11 catfish in a matter of 5 hours. I don't know if it had to do with the cigarettes, but she is one of the luckiest fishers l've ever known.

 

Some old school guides would laugh this myth off. Heck, some even had dogs in their sleds riding next to them touching and petting them throughout the day. Didn't matter. What did matter was where they knew where the fish would be at certain levels of the tide.

 

I've always laughed at the guys that were serious scent freaks spending all day fishing with their cute little purple gloves. Then id see a guide boat where EVERYONE had the blue gloves on in 70 degree weather.... that just cant be comfortable. I've smoked for years and always used bare hands to bait up and it doesn't seem to bother the fish at all. When the bites on, and you got your gear running through those fish.... You catch fish...

 

I almost always get bit when I fire up my pipe.

I even have a pipe lure. It’s stuffed with half a herring.

 

I caught more fish when I smoked but there used to be more fish to catch when I smoked.

 

This Guy!

 

I resemble that remark.


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