Forgotten/Rotten Bait ... Ever Do It?

[fumifish]

do my big brothers smelly socks count?

[RickBomba]

One of the first times that Mikey and I went real fishing together, we headed out to Nauset (with some girls, we mainly went to drink...although I remember that Mikey had a good pickup), we went in my 86 Mercury Linx, with some eels and sand eels. Put the bait in the trunk, drove to the beach, and fished.
It only rained at the Cape 2 times that summer, so I don't think I got into my car from the middle of July until late August (used to take the bike everywhere), and when I got into the car six weeks later...after a really hot summer...UUGGH!
An eel had gotten out of the eel bucket and sat in the heat for six weeks...no open windows, nothing.
It was truly a horrific experience!

[GonnaCatchABig1]

cooler filled with macks. 2months. never really forgot about them. we were gonna use them the next day. never happened. so then we were gonna empty them into the water the next day. never happened. it got to the point where we were to afraid to open it. so it just sat. and sat. till one day we needed it. we had to strap it to the roof. stunk up the whole town. where we ended up emptying happened to be quite filled with people fishing that day. and the only place semi-far away from everyone was up wind. oh the looks on peoples faces when that smell made its way over. it was horrible. kudos to tom for being able to dump it. i couldn't get with in 5 ft with out almost throwing up. there was nothing left of the dozen or so macks that were in there. it was nothing but a yellowish gooey maggots rinse. horrible.