Article: SMELLY 'FISH FORMULAS' LURE MANUFACTURERS

DRAWING - SMELL, TASTE MECHANISMS

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When I attended the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association trade show in Dallas this past summer, they were calling it "The year of the smell." Each show seems to have an overriding number of new products going in the same direction. This year there was a large group of companies marketing ''guaranteed" fish-attracting scents.

You got the impression that with a few drops of their deadly dynamite the fish would hit so fast and furious you'd be in a sweat.

One company even hinted broadly that a certain state was going to ban their scent because it was catching too many fish.

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