locating bream by smell

I've smelled them on hot days with a very light breeze. Downwind of course. Its like a light oily smell.

I was scooting across a lake in TN and as I got close to where I was going to fish I smelled em. Almost no wind, I stopped and waited to feel which way the wind was coming from. Dropped the TM and eased around, throwing a small black beetle spin extra slow. I found some, a couple of real good ones. In later years I got a side image unit and sure enough, it looked like a moonscape where I caught those gills. Every now and then I smell em as I run down the river, haven’t found them yet but I’m still lookin.

Once you smell & fish them, you want forget again!

Look at it this way, if you can smell them,they are near,if you don’t smell them,they can still be near.Im confident the smell is stronger at peak spawn,weaker to non detectable at lesser times.Ive caught countless gills and never smelled a thing,but I have caught countless when I could smell them,perhaps at a faster rate.

To me, it smells more like strawberries than watermelon... to me. I've only smelled it on ponds and small lakes here in Ga during the spawn - not yet this year.

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Originally Posted by Techno2000

Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of beds that surrounds you…

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I was thinking or rather humming the same thing.



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As another poster said, it is fish pheromones. I can smell them when the bluegill are spawning in some coves by my office.


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