Keeping a Can or Bag of Tobacco on Your Boat or in Your Tackle Box

[CaptLeo]

Doesn't matter what brand you get. Doesn't matter if you do or don't chew, smoke, or use tobacco in any manner.

I don't chew, nor dip, but I keep a can of Copenhagen or Skoal or some kind of snuff or chew on my boats at all times.

For Yellow Jackets, other Wasps, Hornets, and other Bug bites. It really works. If push comes to shove, you can even use the tobacco in a cigarette or a cigar or pipe tobacco, but I find it easier to just keep a can on my boats and I keep one in my tackle box.

Yellow Jackets can get pretty aggressive, especially in the Fall here where I live. I guess their regular food supply diminishes and they start looking for other food sources... and they know to look around where folks are fishing.

I've had them sting me. And when I have gotten stung by any wasp or hornet, I immediately get out my can, grab a pinch, wet it, and then place the pinch of wet tobacco on the spot where I got stung or bit. Generally, I have no swelling when I react immediately, and if some swelling has started, it goes away fast, and even the redness and pain goes away in about 30 minutes or less.

So, tobacco can actually be good for you. It makes for a good addition to any First Aid kit.

[stoney53]

my grand dad did that when he got stung by any bee hornet etc...we were kids then and thought he was crazy..but guess i'll try that next time it happens to me and i'm good for at least a few stings every summer

[thunderchicken]

Must work, saw John Wayne do it once. He tied it off with his kerchief. :wink:

:smile:

[CatSlayer715]

good thing i chew, i always got a can with me.. Didnt know that. Thanks for the tip.

[hct236]

Dad chewed Black Maria plug tobacco, more than once I've seen him dribble a little on a bee sting and a few times I remember squirming trying to escape getting the "treatment" from him. But it did help with the stinging.

[lucescoflathead]

I've never heard of this before.I'd say it's the second best thing to do with Redman....

[MRR]

A paste out of Baking Soda works real well also.

[Trapper-steve]

I remember when I was 12 or 13 hunting with my dad and I stepped on a thorn tree limb that had fallen on the ground and shoved a thorn in my foot,
Dad took a cigaret apart and used the tobacco on my foot he said to pull the poison out, seemed to work.

[lucescoflathead]

I don't know what it is, but I know when I get a head cold , I chew a wad of Redman and it clears out the sinuses. I do not recommend this, but it works for me.

[Longjohn119]

Meat tenderizer is what I've always used for stings. The poison in a string is a high order protein and meat tenderizer (made from papayas) breaks down protein real fast. I imagine tobacco works for similar reasons ..

I'm allergic to a type of sand bee that's found in Wisconsin and a sting in the side of my hand swelled my hand and arm clear past my elbow so a future sting always carries the risk of Anaphylactic shock. Other kinds of bees I have a normal reaction and oddly wasp stings barely leave a bigger welt than a big skeeter bite .... I can also roll around in poison ivy or poison oak and barely get a bump while my fishing buddy can break out if he's close and the wind is blowing in the right direction ... He always makes me get out and scout for it when we put up in a strange place

But that one danged species of sand bee ....

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