WD-40?

[WDFW-SUX]

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[boneaddict]

Not alwyas, but I have.

[WDFW-SUX]

same here.

[Snowman]

Have tried it a few times. Didn't seem to work for me.

[huntnphool]

I can tell you the sturgeon seem to enjoy it

[PolarBear]

Rockfish and lingcod seem to like it.  I use to mix herring, shrimp and squid oil together and add a shot of WD-40 into it and they would hit that when everything else wouldnt work.  I also have caught steelhead with the same concoction by soaking a chunk of yarn behind a spin-n-glow.

[Head-shot]

Ah yes wd-40 one of it's many, many uses...

Worked great, couldn't even hear the lures squeek anymore

[WDFW-SUX]

 

I've used it on Herring while Salmon fishing works like a charm

[cascademountainhunter]

it's never worked for me

[jackelope]

i mostly fish single barbless no bait areas and scents are not allowed in those areas.

seriously, i've never tried it, but a great question and topic for talk. 

[Jackjr]

Has worked for me

[huntnphool]

i mostly fish single barbless no bait areas and scents are not allowed in those areas.

seriously, i've never tried it, but a great question and topic for talk. 

No worries Josh, we will spray the other three and leave yours alone on this trip, just for a daily experiment. Make sure you bring a good book though

[sisu]

I use scent on my flies sometimes but don't consider WD a scent it's an anti-rust deterrent for my barbless hooks! hahahahaha

[edmondshunter]

Never have. I figured why add anymore petrol to the water

[Intruder]

I can't convince myself that a petro distillant will attract fish.

[GoldTip]

My brother and I tried it back home crick fishin one time for cutt's.  I should say he tried it and didn't share with me.  Told me he simply sprayed it on the worm.  Worked great, he outfished me 2 to 1 that day.  Went back a couple weekends later, both fished the same stretch as we had before, him with the WD-40/worm combo and me with with smply a worm, that day he only caught one more fish than I did.  Seemed to work real well that one day?? 

[robb92]

I've used it several times, works good for catching bass and white perch.

[Alchase]

I was at a Trout unlimited meeting back in the late 80s, we had a Rep from the major plug company (can't remember what their name was) come to our meeting and show us an incredible video about how they research their plugs and attractants for salmon. They put a bunch of plugs on a spreader bar with a camera attached so they could see the salmon behavior as they attacked the plug. Their research showed that for every fish that hit the lure, between 10-20 came up looked at it and swam away. It had incredible footage of some really large salmon come right up behind the plugs look at it and leave. The cool part was you could watch the Salmon sneak up on the plug, drop back almost out of sight then come screaming back in to take the plug or hit it with there tail. It was amazing how fast they are moving when they hit it. The salmon never took the plug when they first came up to check it out.
They used every thing they could think of to try as an attractant, bilge water, blood, anise oil, vanilla, and most commercially sold products as well as WD-40, even motor oil. What they found is that almost anything that leaves a scent slick will increase your hit rate. WD-40 did as well as any of the commercially sold products. What seemed to work best was whatever bait fish that was running "at that time". If the salmon were feeding on sardines then wrapping a thin fillet of a sardine worked best. This seemed to work with squid, and herring as well.

Starting this thread in the fishing section for others in put

[viper55]

I have used it in the past and it seemed to work well.

[huntnphool]

I can't convince myself that a petro distillant will attract fish.

I was under the impression that it was made out of fish oil, what is it really made of?

[HuntingFanatic]

I use scent on my flies sometimes but don't consider WD a scent it's an anti-rust deterrent for my barbless hooks! hahahahaha

LOL Too funny!

I remember back in the 80's my uncle using it for salmon.......I couldnt tell you if it was effective or not.