WD40

[spotco2]

I know this is an old thread but it got me to rememberin some things from when I was learning to fish with my daddy.

Back in the late 70's some of the bait shops had just started selling a magic spray that was guaranteed to help you catch fish. You betcha we got a bottle and tried it out. The first thing my dad said was "that smells like WD40."

We played with it a little and it DID smell just like WD. Spray it on your finger and it felt just like WD. Spray it on the water and rainbows were everywhere, just like WD.

We were fishing for crappie back then and I don't know if we ever actually caught more fish using it than if we had not used it. After that bottle ran out we refilled it with WD and used it for the rest of the year.

I had forgotten all about using that on bait.

[IFitSWIMS]

The man on a tv show I was watching the other night said good old WD40 was nothing but fish oil.... if that's true way is it not ok to use on abait? Its ok to buy fish oil and use it on ur bait heck you can buy the stuff every where so what's the big deal about WD40 if its just fish oil?

Give a hoot don't pollute.

[TOPS]

I do ok with fresh shad and skips do not need to waste my WD on the fish bait.

[Mark J]

I know this is an old thread but it got me to rememberin some things from when I was learning to fish with my daddy.

Back in the late 70's some of the bait shops had just started selling a magic spray that was guaranteed to help you catch fish. You betcha we got a bottle and tried it out. The first thing my dad said was "that smells like WD40."

We played with it a little and it DID smell just like WD. Spray it on your finger and it felt just like WD. Spray it on the water and rainbows were everywhere, just like WD.

We were fishing for crappie back then and I don't know if we ever actually caught more fish using it than if we had not used it. After that bottle ran out we refilled it with WD and used it for the rest of the year.

I had forgotten all about using that on bait.

Product called BANG comes in an aerosol can. Does the same thing.

[BUDMEISER01]

Product called BANG comes in an aerosol can. Does the same thing.

I know of a product that goes BANG!!! Then you just pick the floating fish off of the top of the water and the bank. Both are bad, I would not do either. JMHO.

[Mark J]

Little WD-40 never hurt a thing. You got old folks sitting around rubbing it into their joints.
I'd rather have the WD40 then what is coming out of a thru hub exhaust.

[JERMSQUIRM]

try jig a loo. sure sucks as a lubricant. got 3 cans for $.99 at menards on a rebate deal, and they will be the last. hard to beat wd-40. although there are hundreds of uses i dont use it on a bait. reel maybe. contains petrolium distaliates. not fish oil. if it were fish oil they would have had the all natural thing on the label at least once for a market ploy.

[dahut]

WD-40 - the Myth, the Reality.

People will believe anything, I guess, as long as it is lurid and farfetched.

[Nathan Sampson]

Isn't WD-40 just great and a 1001 and one uses. I just wouldn't use it as a fish bait.