Why Fish Bite

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Strange thing about gas. I was fishing Mackay Res. years ago and caught one fish all day. The next day was not looking any better. Around noon I was low on fuel, so my friend with a party barge pulled up next to me and handed me a full tank of fuel. This tank was the portable kind made for outboards. My boat had an out board, but had a built in fuel tank. I had no funnel, so we used a paper plate and started to pour the fuel into my tank. We finally got the fuel in, but not with out spilling some and of course my worms were sitting right there. The worms were floating in the container. We headed off trolling again and nothing for about 15 mins. I reeled in the poles to check the bait and put on a fresh worm. I dropped them in and headed off towards the dam. I never got the line all the way out and bam, fish on. I look over and my buddy had one also. We boated 30+ fish that afternoon, mostly Kokes. I still believe it was the gas that did the trick that day. I have always wanted to try it again, but I never seem to have fuel on the boat that is not in the tank.

I have always fueled my boat on the way up fishing and my boat is very prone to blow back when fueling and I always seem to spill some down the side. Never had a problem catching fish. I really think the problem is the scent of different people or an electrical charge issue. My friend has a boat almost identical to mine and can fish right beside me with the exact same lure/bait/fly/speed/depth, and 99% of the time I will out fish him. It may be an electrical charge issue as I have had people catch nothing on his boat and hop onto mine and start catching fish right away. Off the boat the same thing happens tho. I can be catching fish and he will be catching nothing out of the same creek or hole. It may be one of those things we may never know, but I am pretty sure gas does not hurt the catch rate.
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