SMELL the FISH
 

i've always read that your olfactory sense is the strongest
that we have of ALL of them -> but this is rediculous... a trillion?

if that's true then we should be Using it to guide us a hell of allot more
than we currently do to memorize scents we encounter

wow
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/21/health...ml?hpt=hp_bn13

I always say my wife has a dogs nose. She often says, "what's that smell? It smells like something died in here" or, "are your shoes down in front of the door again? Can you put them in the close so I don't' have to smell them?" I can never smell any of it.

She has guided us to blitzing bluefish on the boat before just by smelling the oily mess.

I've never gotten away with coming home smelling like coco butter either…"Don't tell me you were you at the shoe show tonight?"

Bluefish do smell when on a blitz but i think it's the bait they are chopping up. Bass smell like melon sometimes. Honeydew or Cantaloupe. My late partner, Gil Guilittone, could smell bass and he was right 90% of the time.

Definitely a melonesque aroma. Wonder if it's bass crap en masse wafting in the wind when they're on the feed ? If they eat like me it's food in food out.
Of the senses I have left smell is the most acute. When the wind is right I can tell when the chickens hit the rotisserie at the market over a mile away.
I've always loved the smell of " melons " anyway 😉. But get real jiggy when I'm on the water and start getting a whiff.
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pogies have a smell to them. and the smell a bass leaves on your hands is great

so just imagine
 

that a dogs sense of smell is 500 times more powerful
than man's sense of smell.....

sometimes, i watch my dog holding her head up high
standing still with her nose into the prevailing wind
and it's wiggling as if to draw the scent in
and she's in a totally different world of sensory attunement

When I used to fish pochet in the day, the SW blowing in from the grills at the Chatham bars inn would have me salivating on the beach. Very distracting , in a good way.
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STOP IT!! I have tears in my eyes. The new guys will never know.

I never steam without my eyes on the water and my nose in the air,,, smell the blues catch the bass
Won't be long now, thank god

Why if a dogs sense of smell is so good, when they meet another dog they need to stick their nose right up their butt?

Thats just how dogs shake hands.
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Makai, maybe we get it back. They say the seals are getting sick.

I always smell watermelon prior to a rip of blues running through. It's happened a couple times when I have had non fishing people on the beach with me. I told them fish were coming they thought I was nuts. Then they wanted to try
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What I hate the most when surfcasting is when you can smell bass
but the smell is carried on a light wind and the fish are probably well
out of casting range.

I have been like a deer in the headlights....stuck in a spot waiting.

my point was....if you can teach a dog to sniff out drugs
or explosive residue then you can also employ the reward system
gratification every time you see birds diving from afar with binoculars
give the "ALERT- ALERT" command to the dog to smell them
and then of course the reward (tasty treat) and it will become a habit.
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i once had a Labrador retriever so smart that i could cover its eyes
with my hand and throw his retrieve toy i made (ask me how if interested) made out of water proof canvas into the tall grass
then say : fetch em up.... he'd run to the edge of the area
and then look back at me for "clues" (and i had to be carefulful not
to give away the location by staring straight ahead) ...because if i looked or glanced right or left that's the direction he'd search.

2X

That action is as exact as it is gross.

Know how you hear stories of dogs that can "sense" when their owner is sick? They can smell the change in our boichemestry.

Plus, since dogs don't have opposible thumbs, the best they could hope for would be a weak "high-5".

I have had numerous chances where I came to a fishing spot and smelled what I could best describe as either watermelon or cucumber rinds.

And then I proceed to ge plastics bitten off by blues.

When blues blitz, they go into hyper-feed mode.
In order to maximize this they have developed a habit of regurgitating in order to make room for more food.
Their stomach acids/digestive juices are what create that mellon smell.

One of the first times I came across this was in the canal, and I could have sworn someone had dumped a truckload of mellons on the shore from the strength of the smell.

My sense of smell has been most useful Tuna fishing when I was younger. I remember running out to the Hudson from Manasquan Inlet, we were only about 30 miles out and I caught a strong whiff. We dropped out 2 daisy chains and 3 green machines and started our trolling pattern on a whim, figured we'd give it 30 minutes on the hunch (word from the canyon was so-so). As the last green machine hit the water we were on, we boated a 4 man limit of yellowfin in 90 minutes. We C&R'd for another 30-45 minutes and were on our way home before we even would have made it to the wall of the canyon.

Bluefish and tuna are easy to smell, bunker the same, bass not so much. I don't know whether its the smell of the fish or just the water conditions that give off a certain odor, but its clear as day.

I use to do the same thing when I was deer hunting. I could smell deer before I could see them. people used to tell me I was nuts. Never bothered me, the pile of fuzzy brown friends spoke for itself...