snag hunter
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its probably been asked a hundred times but does wd40 sprayed onto your worms work? does it help catch more fish? or is it a load of twoddle? i heard of match anglers using it years ago.
It can and does work at times but it's no miracle bait. What it does do well though is to prevent the worms from going rusty.
I spray my reels with the stuff after i have rinsed them and they have dried
It can do and it has for me. A few years ago I was fishing Blyth pier with a mate, the sea was monstrous and you had to hold your rod ALL of the time or it would have been in. Despite the big sea there was nothing coming in at all. I tried spraying one bait just before I cast and it was'nt in the water long when I got a fish. I tried it well over an hour later and caught a second resulting in two cod for just under 10 lb. I didn't use it again at all that night and got no more fish.
I have used it again on quite a few occasions and have pulled the odd fish in but I could'nt say that it was the same, as I either caught fish without using it on the same night or used it and caught nothing at all all night lol.
I heard that it works canny on the boats on accasions but have never tried it myself.
"It can and does work at times but it's no miracle bait. What it does do well though is to prevent the worms from going rusty".
I don't think I could have put it in better words than thewestwind so don't expect to go out and catch loads of fish using half a jam sandwich tied onto a pennel and sprayed with WD40![]()
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