the winter can be the worst time of year for fishing, not just because the fishing slows down a little or because its cold but more so because you get smeller hands after fishing.
during the winter months i revert back to using mostly mussel and mackeral razor, lug and squid. now most of these baits dont smell that bad but the bloody mussel does espcially if you have left it out for a day or two to get it stinking.
therefore after fishing your hands do be covered with orange smelly s**t which is hard to remove from your hands.
i have found that if you wash your hands in SHAVING FOAM it helps to get this smeel fro your hands, try it and post back if it works???
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Get the unscented ones. Dearer than the scented ones, oddly enough, but I think especially if you wipe your hands with them during a session, at least your bait won't smell of flowers.....
Mind you, the way I'm fishing at the minute, I don't think it'd make a lot of odds if I wiped my hands with a rag steeped in diesel....
when u get home wash ur hands in cold water as warm bakes the smell to your hands. I also use baby wipes. great job for making u feel a bit cleaner when eating and drinking during fishing
pookie5488 wrote:I use a hand gel alco based as the nurses us in hospital.
Can buy from superdrug scented and unscented, use before i drive and never have a smelly stering wheel and also cleans any cuts. 0.99p
As your wife to bring some home rounfd our way good stuff
aye one of the lads i know uses that stuff too.. doesn't half sting when it gets into cuts...
and its not a good idea to be smoking when you are rubbing the stuff on
but it sure cleans the hands of any smell/stains/bacteria/nail varnish(dont ask)
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but the smell seems to be worse than the hands were before - now you have this crappy perfume smell all over the car steering wheel and it doesnt go away for days
I use the Mackerel alot as its the basic bait here in the estuary. There is nothing that get the smell of frozen mackerel off your hands. Best thing to do is warm water, soap and a nail brush and scrub them. The worst of it is under the nails but your skin does get tainted. Baby wipes can help just before a sandwich or so the steering wheel doesn't completely hum. I'd avoid the Johnston and Johnston wipes hum worse than stale mackerel.
I usually bring a small bottle of soapy water and a pack of J-Cloths which usually does the trick and if not I add some sugar to washing up liquid when i get home and it usually shifts it then, the sugar basically acts like a scrubbing brush!
corbyeire wrote:but the smell seems to be worse than the hands were before - now you have this crappy perfume smell all over the car steering wheel and it doesnt go away for days
get the sensitive ones, they have no perfume, not that I Can smell anyway.
Similar to what was posted from Al re the sugar, but on the beach, I try and half fill a bucket of water and at regular intervals scrub like hell with a handful of sand and rinse off. No embedded crap under fingernails/persistent nasty smells etc. The sand or light shingle even really scrubs it off. Keeping hands relatively clean saves you having to wash your rods, rig wallets etc etc. Just wiping on a cloth doesnt really cut it. Hard to make yourself do it at this time of year though.
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petekd wrote:Similar to what was posted from Al re the sugar, but on the beach, I try and half fill a bucket of water and at regular intervals scrub like hell with a handful of sand and rinse off. No embedded crap under fingernails/persistent nasty smells etc. The sand or light shingle even really scrubs it off. Keeping hands relatively clean saves you having to wash your rods, rig wallets etc etc. Just wiping on a cloth doesnt really cut it. Hard to make yourself do it at this time of year though.
Yeah prob better using sand/shingle while on the beach! One of my rods is still covered in Scales from September I plan on taking better care of my tackle in future though!
I plan on taking better care of my tackle in future though!
