Salt and additives

[furdy]

Was sat around waiting for the weather to break and started to ponder as you do.
Thinking back to days of carp chasing, salt was widely used in baits for the synergestic qualities of sodium.
Would this translate readily into the sea fishing world.
What about the other available additives, pilchard oil seems to have some devotees, and would it be more effective with the inclusion of an emulsifier.

Any ideas...?

[greysfanboy]

This might sound stupid, but considering the sea is full of salt I don't think fish would have a deficiency of it.

[vax]

Salt is used, look at the storm shads. Some people also add salt in a small canister to the line.

[furdy]

Not suggesting an inclusion as an aid to nutrition but as an attractor.
At the very least salt added to a hookbait should in theory increase salinity locally even though the sea is full of the stuff.
I was thinking more along the lines of scent dispersal. the sodium in the salt attaching a scent to any free hydrogen molecules in water and dispersing more freely in much the same way that adding salt to your dinner makes it appear to taste better.

[michael1923]

I read an article once about a guy who trialed using salt as an atractor. how he done it was fish 2 rods. On one rod he added a fresh water feeder on his hook snood that he filled with cotton wool soaked in water and salt. On the other nothing, both rigs were exactly the same.

Although he did not conclude that the salt worked, he did state that the rod with the salt atractor did infact catch a few more fish. Interesting i thought.

Mike