12-11-2007, 09:07 AM
I use a dish towl, "brown"
it seldom ever gets washed, just hung to dry, I hate when I have to get a new one because I have to have a good day for it to work...
I dont wipe my lures or flies or any thing else with it, just my hands and ocationaly hold on to a fish if I have to go deep with hemostats...
ya that makes my towl smell fishy, no I dont put it in a bag, it needs to dry or it will rot... even after it drys you wipe your hands your hands will smell like fish, just handling the towl with your hand and then handling your fly or lure is enough to transfer fish oil sents..
I learnt this trick from an old timer on the ice... not many more of them left, well It looks like I am getting to be the old timer any more... I am the oldest regular any more. any way, first thing they would do was pull their towl out and wipe their hands... and they would start pulling up fish, more and bigger, sitting right beside me... LOL
you can also use a fish attractant to add to it if you find one you like that works for you, you dont need much, just enough to get the smell in, few drops and then wipe your hands... You can go to heavy on the sent, that can be just as bad as a poorly tied representation of a fly...
so to put it short, Yep, you are on the right track... just no baggies, the towl has to dry out...
you could probably get away with a wash cloth size towl put a grovet in it and a clip so you could hang it on your vest some where...
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it seldom ever gets washed, just hung to dry, I hate when I have to get a new one because I have to have a good day for it to work...
I dont wipe my lures or flies or any thing else with it, just my hands and ocationaly hold on to a fish if I have to go deep with hemostats...
ya that makes my towl smell fishy, no I dont put it in a bag, it needs to dry or it will rot... even after it drys you wipe your hands your hands will smell like fish, just handling the towl with your hand and then handling your fly or lure is enough to transfer fish oil sents..
I learnt this trick from an old timer on the ice... not many more of them left, well It looks like I am getting to be the old timer any more... I am the oldest regular any more. any way, first thing they would do was pull their towl out and wipe their hands... and they would start pulling up fish, more and bigger, sitting right beside me... LOL
you can also use a fish attractant to add to it if you find one you like that works for you, you dont need much, just enough to get the smell in, few drops and then wipe your hands... You can go to heavy on the sent, that can be just as bad as a poorly tied representation of a fly...
so to put it short, Yep, you are on the right track... just no baggies, the towl has to dry out...
you could probably get away with a wash cloth size towl put a grovet in it and a clip so you could hang it on your vest some where...
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