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Location: Minneapolis, MN | I can't believe its mid-day and nobody has brought this up yet. Has everyone read about the Fool-a-Fish spray-on attractant in the paper today? (Article pasted below). Would you consider trying it this season?
I've tried glow in the dark spoons for salmon and had great success at night. I've tried glow dawgs for muskies and just couldn't get myself to throw it very long because it looked like a UFO in the water.
Ultraviolet Lure May Catch Fish's Eye
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press Writer
Published February 7, 2006, 11:51 AM CST
SPOKANE, Wash. -- In the ancient struggle between man and fish, man has a new weapon. Forget fancy lures, depth charges or precision casting guns. The new weapon requires vision -- ultraviolet vision.
Called Fool-a-Fish, it comes in a bottle that sprays titanium dioxide on fishing lures and bait. The chemical lights up the watery depths like a disco ball, luring fish from half a mile away.
Fool-a-Fish is the brainchild of a Spokane physician named Milan Jeckle -- that's Dr. Jeckle to you -- who combined his love of chemistry and the outdoors into a new business. Fool-A-Fish is earning a growing reputation as anglers from Alaska to Florida enjoy success with the product.
"You catch three or four times more fish, and the biggest fish," Jeckle contended.
Researchers have discovered that while humans see in three colors -- red, yellow-green and blue -- fish and birds see a fourth color in the ultraviolet range, which shows up as a white glow, Jeckle said. This color is invisible to humans.
Working with David Cleary, a chemistry professor at Spokane's Gonzaga University, Jeckle came up with the formula combining titanium dioxide, which is used in sunscreens, and several other chemicals. The whitish liquid dries quickly, and will stay on a lure for some two hours, he said. It is nontoxic, odorless and washes off with soap and water.
But underwater it shines like a beacon to fish.
In November of 2004, Jeckle and two friends went to Moses Lake, in central Washington, to try it out.
"I put it on my bait and caught a 6-pound walleye," Jeckle said. Later he took it to Alaska and caught several 100-pound halibut.
Jeckle said many of the spray products currently used to lure fish are scent-based, because fish are known to search for food by smell.
"This is based entirely on vision," Jeckle said. "This is a new way to fish."
"It's not just blood that attracts sharks," he added. "They can see a swimmer half a mile away."
Jeckle makes up batches of Fool-A-Fish in his kitchen. The spray is sold in some outdoor stores in the region, and it can be ordered on Jeckle's Web site. It is also getting written up in fishing magazines. Northwest Angler said the formula "makes it super easy for fish to see lures or baits from great distances."
Instructors at Salmon University in Tacoma, a guide service and fishing school, also report success with the product. John Keizer, one of its chief instructors, said he found that treated herring caught three fish for every one caught on untreated herring.
Jeckle has also adapted his formula to produce Fool-A-Bird, which works on a reverse principle. Birds use ultraviolet vision to avoid humans, so Jeckle created a formula that when sprayed on a hunter's clothes, body and gun will absorb ultraviolet rays.
"You spray it on yourself and they treat you like a tree trunk or a dead stump," Jeckle said. "They ignore you."
Jeckle grew up in Green Bay, Wis., where he began fishing for perch as a boy. He practiced for three decades as a family physician in Spokane, and went into semiretirement five years ago. That's what gave him the time to develop his products, he said.
Jeckle cautioned that Fool-A-Fish is not foolproof.
"It's not magic," Jeckle said. Some days nothing will make fish bite, and other days they will bite at anything, he said.
"This is for when it's in-between," he said.
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On the Web:
http://www.Foolafish.com
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| I wonder how soft plastics will hold up to this. Will you end up with a puddle of goo at the end of the day? | |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Imagine the new bait pattern possibilities!!!!
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| Just because we do not see the UV colors on our baits does not mean that they are not there. The fish just see the colors different than we do. | |
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Location: Mallard Island Lake Vermilion MN | Hope they lable it correct.
I have had guys in my boat that drank some attractants.
Some rub it on them in many places.
Others mix it in their food, have a bone fire do a dance and offer up fresh turds to the Gods O fish.
Whos knows?
Can't hurt, might help.
It's all about having fun, why not.
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Location: Germantown, WI | my father in law knows the inventor's brother who still lives in green bay. he gave me a bottle of this 2yrs ago when they
started testing it out. i have used it, but not religiously. i can't say i've caught more fish because of it. haven't used it on my muskie baits, but have on my smaller cranks for bass/walleye/pike. I will have to give it a shot on the muskie stuff this year
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Location: The desert | I'll stick with just straight up baits. If the fish is going to hit it, it will hit.
Mike | |
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| dont think so.if its sounds to good to be true, its not. sounds like the perfect lure, aid .again/. insted of fool a fish . it shoud be foola man or lady. lol my 2 cents worth | |
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| I think for myself, that I prefer to talk to Mr. Hyde before buying a product like this. | |
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