Question by md: Does smoking while live bait fishing scare away fish?
Will smoking cigarettes while fishing (smell gets on your hands) make fish less likely to hit your bait. Me and a friend were recently fishing the exact same spot and he pulled up about 20 fish, and I didn’t get a nibble. I was smoking.
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Answer by pickmefirstplz
no, he’s just a better fisherman
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Ive never heard that it should affect you. I chew tobacco and its never affected that I’ve noticed
I doubt that ratio is due to your smoking, sometimes thats just fishing.
If thats always going to be in the back of your head, carry wet wipes, or those hand sanitizer gels with you and use it between handling bait.
I think its all in your head. Heck I’ve seen trouts slam floating cigarette butts!
Not a chance.
Beside cigarettes, we used to smoke stogies (cheap cigars) to try to keep the gnats, etc. away.
Didn’t make much difference to the bugs, and no difference to the fish at all
I have to disagree with all of your previous answers. Depending on the type of fish that you are going for, there are certain “human scents” that the fish will detect. The fish know humans as nothing but predators and will be frightened by their smells. Also, nicotine is toxic to fish. For every cig butt you toss in the water, when it hits bottom it will kill all the organisms within 2 inches from it. I smoke too, so when I am fishing with baits, I use rubber gloves to put it on. Otherwise, you can get yourself some soap and wash off in the water before you hook your bait, I have done both. Not sure how big a difference it makes, but I do know that I catch fish. With lures, I use a layer of chapstick on the outside. This enhances the shine and it takes all of the human scents off of the lure.
If you are fishing for catfish, however, it don’t make no difference at all.
no i smoke never had a problem (same bait) i think he might have spit on his hook
Nope, not one little bit. My dad and I were snagging live shad and flippin’ ‘em out and fly lining them for bass a couple weeks ago and we were both smoking. Bass (and the damn greebs) were on the shad like a fat kid on chocolate cake.
There’s been a study that says with certain fish, tobacco and/or nicotine stimulates their feeding senses. Carp for instance, are one of those.
l am in line with most of these answers.
the practise of spitting on one’s bait came from the old timers that always had a chaw in their mouth, the nicotine was a feeding stimulant and spitting the juice on the worm or doughbait worked well for that and also covering odors from one’s hands while handling the bait. especially carp and cats. fish that feed more by smell.
like to see more on nicotine killing insect life though. gnats and mosquitos were voracious at the lake yesterday.