Last year, after catching my first bluegill in way too many years, I thought, "I remember that smell!"

My cats insist upon smelling my hands if I have been gone longer than an hour. The seemed excited about my return to fishing. Nice smells. Before long they looked at me like, "LMB? smelt it already."

I beat the rains this evening and five of eight were gills.

Annika Cat sniffed every inch of my left hand and casually checked out my right. Her big brother, Dimsum was also interested - he had to lick my palm.

Long live that bluegill stink!

No not stink--wrong word---aroma is the better choice.
lol

I'll stick with stink. Still, it is a sweeter smell than the aroma of many perfumes.

smells like freshly dug up worms ...

it is a smell that i do not mind. carp on the other hand is somthing that never leaves the net and for some reason the back of the truck will have the smell for a few days too.

Exactly what I was going to say. You beat me to it.

Yep, had some on my hands yesterday. Sugar and Spice were very interested in smelling it.

maybee its the water u caught them in.

smells like some GOOOOOOD eatin to me.

I'm with you, Waco! And I still have a few small bags of BG fillets in the freezer. Time for some fish tacos!!

Bert are you whipping the BG with your popping bugs yet? I was talking to Dad just the other day about flyrodding some BG's with the poppingbugs! I love catching them on the topwater!!

Not yet, Al. Just waiting for some rain to help put a little water in FF, then I'll head down that way. Heard they got about a foot or so of a rise in the last few days. Hopefully that storm coming across Florida will keep coming this way.

You been doing any good?

They smell like my brothers armpit!!