Author Topic: ugh....my jigs SMELL (Read 2035 times)

billybono · « **on:** Jan 15, 2006, 01:56 PM »

getting the gear ready for tomorow and ugh

MY JIGS SMELL

little pieces of minnows and spikes that didnt get removed all the way. anyone ever clean there jigs? im just soking em in some hot water to see what that does. i also always seem to have a problem with little excaped spikes in my pockets or buckets....got 2 nuclear flys cruzin around right now

billybono

settlepa · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 15, 2006, 02:06 PM »

No but I have had many minnows die in the bucket....talk about smell!!

scott14580 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 15, 2006, 02:10 PM »

Nope, but I found a peanut butter/jelly sandwich in my backpack when getting my icefishing stuff together this past December! 9 months of priceless rotting took place in that sack!!!

Smell ya later, Scott
BTW: I think this is my 100th post. I'm officially an ice nerd.

AugustWest · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 15, 2006, 03:45 PM »

2 cups of warm tap water with a teaspoon of baking soda disolved in it will do the trick. Let them soak for a couple hours.

GAMBELL · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 15, 2006, 03:47 PM »

Billy,
I have Had this problem before. Use smelly jelly or another fish scent to cover it up. Some of my jigs smelled musty last season and I tried this and it worked. The jigs would not work well with out it.

winchester 88 · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 15, 2006, 07:59 PM »

Ever drop a nightcrawler in your tackle box and lose it until the next trip or forget to remove your bait box from the trunk of the car in the middle of summer?

Winchester 88

Roacho · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 15, 2006, 08:11 PM »

Try fishing for stripers in salt water - the accumulation of schemegma and fish slime is beyond belief.

My waders always smell like a three day old broccoli fart.

billybono · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 15, 2006, 08:12 PM »

Quote from: Roacho on Jan 15, 2006, 08:11 PM

Try fishing for stripers in salt water - the accumulation of schemegma and fish slime is beyond belief.

My waders always smell like a three day old broccoli fart.

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hahahahaha like salmon season around here

billybono

Fishin Fireman · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 17, 2006, 12:57 PM »

Quote from: billybono on Jan 15, 2006, 08:12 PM

hahahahaha like salmon season around here

billybono

Yeah, Salmon season up here. I think I will bottle that and sell it, PU! Stink bait, there are lots of salmon streams up here so I could get a few different varieties.

Auger · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 17, 2006, 04:13 PM »

A few years back, I got in a fight with a brandy bottle and left a bag of thawed smelt on top of my Frabill polar-therm tip-ups in a pail. It was late in the season and warm out. A day or two later, when I returned to the world of the living, I found a bag of gelatinous goo on my tip-ups. Most of the smelt juice had drained out of the bag and penatrated between the tip-up bodies and the foam that is underneath them. Those tip-ups still REEK to this day. We joke that they are my catfishing tip-ups because they smell as bad as stinkbait. Yuck!

Irrgang131 · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 17, 2006, 04:20 PM »

Smelly jelly....makes me wanna go walleye fishing on erie....That stuff is deadly on the eyes...

cstolp · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 17, 2006, 10:52 PM »

Maybe you should have left some be. Might have been the next best thing to hit the market.

bushbunny · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 18, 2006, 10:40 AM »

Probably smells like some of the places that I used to habit when I was much younger!!!!

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