Last night while rummaging around out back, I came across one of my eel coolers that I had been looking for and forgot about ... forgot about is the key word as I mistakenly put the cooler out back after a night of fishing close to three weeks ago and forgot about it until last night ... three weeks of dead eels in a closed cooler ... what a rancid smell ... not sure I want to even keep the thing, it's so toxic right now ...
It reminded me of a time when I was in high school when my buddy was away and another friend and I decided to "borrow" his 13-foot whaler to do some live bait fishing with pogies ... we plugged the little well between the two transoms and used it as our live bait tank ... came back very late at night ...
... a few weeks later I went water skiing with my buddy who owned the boat ... as we swam out to the mooring you could smell the decayed bunker in the back ... my other buddy and I returned so late that we forgot about the remaining pogies in the well. The water was black and the fish decayed ... by friend who owned the boat reached in to pick the bait up and they slipped through his fingers ... it was a most awful smell, he was furious
... he also was a big guy ...not quite as big as Big Fish Larry, but not much smaller either ... I was too scared to say anything or laugh, becuase he would have killed me ...
... moral is get rid of your bait when it still smells okay ...
... anything like this happen to you guys?
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