MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Just gathering some insight. Went out yesterday and found my auger tipped on its side in my sled. I noticed the mixed gas film on the surface of the snow melt in the sled. I still had rods and everything in there from our previous trip. Everything sort of smells like gas. I changed out the jigs and I still caught fish yesterday and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anything but you can never be to careful. Has anything like this happened to anyone else. If so any suggestions.
a minute amount of dish soap isn't gonna make one bit of difference to the water quality and neither is WD-40. The main reason people like to use 'biodegradable' stuff when backpacking is so they can pat themselves on the back for being 'green.' The fact is that the quanties in question are not significant enough to cause any concern. A typical rainfall would drop 1000X more pollutants (chemicals and compounds dissolved or adsorbed to the rain drops) than a couple hundred folks using wd-40 or dawn dish soap.I'd just change the line out and soak the jigs and call it good. I would think gas on the line wouldn't be good for the structural integrity of the line and would probably cause weakness to develop. If you are feeling really gungho then get some anson (sp??) oil and douce the jibs. Lots of guys use anson oil on their plastics to mask human scent; also, i think that fish are attracted to it maybe?? But the crap does smell terrible