I remember hearing it but thought it was dumb. There were and are better fish attractants. I use to put garlic salt in my packages. Now I just spray some bang or whatever after I rig my plastic and let it sit a few minutes.

Wouldn’t that make it WD41? I mean the whole WD40 name stands for “Water Displacement Formula no 40”

I remember hearing about it when I was a kid and sprayed it in the 3 or 4 packs of worms that I had. About a month or 3 later, the worms were still fine but the packages were disintegrating. This would've been in the early 80's.

no WD-40... just Bang Craw or Shad...

I don’t even know how many decades back this was supposed to have been, I’m sure google search would know. I had an uncle experiment while catfishing, which obviously smell a lot better than a bass does. The bait sprayed didn’t work any better than the stuff not sprayed.

We used to spray wd 40 on cut bait to catch reds at night. Definitely made a difference. Haven’t done that in years.

Well, the WD40 website says “it does NOT contain any fish oil” and they do not recommend it as a product used for bait. So, it was just a myth and all the old timers were wrong. Case closed…..

Buzzy Rods and the fizz pellets come to mind.

Ive done it works better in the fall for some reason

60% of the time it works every time.

Never used it for fishing. I have used it on my tendinitis's when I was younger for my wrist...it may have even worked too.

Never have

It’s science.

I knew a guy who owned a worm company in the 90's put a whoopin on me at Fayette. He used WD40, and I used my worm. Don't know if it was the Arrow or the Indian, but I can say he kicked our butts fishing a carolina rig. All fishing in the same boat.

No WD40 but still use LFT Hawg Wild or Bang Garlic.