The smell of fish is something that lingers in the fishing boat, in the kitchen, the pots and pans, in your car, on your hands, in your clothes and anywhere else that is touched by the fish.

It is not a pleasant smell for most people. I know there are those that say they grew up thinking that fish was supposed to smell like fish, but most find the lingering odor after the fish is long eaten to be unpleasant.

There are many home type remedies that are professed to work. Let me list some here for you to try.

1.) Wash or clean with a solution of vinegar and water.
2.) Wash or clean with a solution of bleach and water.
3.) If it is your refrigerator or freezer, empty it and turn it off. Place a container of boiling hot water with a sliced lemon in it. Leave for about an hour. Then make sure all the smelly ice is out of the freezer area and wipe down the walls and shelves with lemon water. Wipe each item thoroughly before replacing in the refrigerator or freezer.
4.) For the refrigerator or freezer, purchase vanilla-scented fridge deodorizer. It is supposed to kill the bacteria so it will put a stop to the odor for good, not just cover it up. Can be found in a good hardware store or supermarket.
5.) For a container, pots and pans or freezer, cut two potatoes and sprinkle some common table salt on it and place in the container for a couple of hours. Then wash thoroughly.
6.) Wash items with baking soda solution. 1-2 tablespoons of baking soda to 1 quart of water. Keep baking soda in the refrigerator or freezer where you normally store fish.
7.) For pots and pans try brewing some tea for 10-15 minutes. Discard and wash.
8.) For hands, etc. rubs hands with salt and then wash with a lemon scented soap or mild lemon detergent. Liberal use of nail brush at this time will also help.

9.) For clothes, give them a good soak in NappiSan or any other nappy/diaper soaker.
10.) For the fishing boat, body, clothes and children try “Simple Green”. Usually can be found at your local supermarket.
11.) “Simple Green” can also be carried along on your fishing trip to clean the smell and residue of insect repellent and sunscreen from your flies or leaders.
12.) This one might take a while but is recommended as having worked. If you have had an ice chest leak in the car try covering with newspaper. This can also be used for the freezer problem. It takes a while for the newspaper to absorb the odor but it seems to do so.
13.) While cooking to reduce the fish smell in the area try heating a little bit of olive oil in a pan and adding cinnamon to it. The fish smell will give way to the sweet cinnamon smell.
14.) If you want to get rid of the fish smell before you cook it, soak the raw fish in a little bit of vinegar and a lot of water. Is should not affect the flavor in any way.
15.) For the microwave try soaking a wet dish towel with a squirt of dish detergent on it and then place it in the center of the microwave and run the microwave on high for a few minutes. The scented stem will clean it. Then let air for a few minutes.

Then there are also some commercial solutions. Here are a few you might want to try:

1.) Zielonka Smell Buster – made in Germany out of special high-grade stainless steel. The Smell Buster is supposed to neutralize odors as soon as it comes into contact with air and water, leaving it fresh and clean. Try an internet search to find it.
2.) Several companies manufacture a liquid concentrate which sells for about $3.00 for 1/4 to 1/2 ounce. A couple drops are put on a piece of cotton and placed in the area to absorb odors, in the cabinet or in a room.

A couple of brand names are: “Odor-Away” by Wrap-on Co., available at hardware and hospital supply stores and “Clean-Air” found at some appliance repair shops.

Hospital supply stores carry Dow Chemical Hospital Disinfectant and Deodorant Spray. Spray into cabinet and quickly shut the door.

Hope some of these solutions will work for you to get rid of the fish smell wherever it is a problem for you.

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My Bass boat may up there in years, but like her owner, she is not old! We don’t feel old! We are always ready to get out on the water again and again! Maybe that’s why I purchased the old Adventure. Looking at her long sleek hull, something caught my eye. It was the registry numbers! Something was familiar in the numbers. Her birth registry numbers were the same as my own!

You might say that there was something special in the air that day. Even though I was more than twice her age this Bass rig was love at first site. She is 19 years old, but she still has heart . Come tournament time she still moves quickly when needed! The Johnson engine is old too but I see it as 8 years young and still performing like a youngster! Plain Jane two-stroke technology is still going strong. Just add oil, and gas of course, and go! The big ‘John’ definitely has enough horse to push my rig!

When purchasing an old Bass boat don’t let the years in service bring you down. Every Bass rig has potential of lasting many years when properly maintained. They are built to last!

If you are unsure of the boat’s structural integrity, do as I did. Hire a ‘glass pro’ to check it out for you. Yes, that’s right, a ‘glass pro’. I paid a few dollars for a local known fiberglass expert to pay me a visit. He did all the testing throughout the boat. During the process I was a little nervous because you never know, but I felt confident t he would be pleased with my purchase. He told me that it was hand woven! Now, I must say, I looked at him in a daze and asked, “What the heck does ‘hand woven’ mean”? “Basically”, he said, “It’s built with light weight in mind combined with structural integrity!” Well, he was right there because I know the boat is definitely built for speed! And structurally she has his confidence and in turn mine. The old ’sea bird’ has proven it over and over again!

An old Bass boats worst enemy is the weather. The best way to stop the sun and rain from aging our prize is with wax, of course and having a cover for our rigs is good practice too. Keeping it in a garage or covered area away from Mother Nature will ultimately prolong its life. Some don’t have any choice, as I did, in leaving it vulnerable to the outside. But with a good cover you can keep the damage at a bare minimum. When I purchased my Bass boat it was definitely weathered. I know darn well that it sat in the sun and rain. One way to tell is when the clear coat starts to flake. All metallic paints have clear coat to make it shine. When hairline cracks occur in the clear coat water gets in underneath giving it a hazy, cloudy look, then eventually flaking off. We can’t clear coat the whole boat again, unless you are Howard Hughes, but what we can do is stop the process. The best way to do that is by purchasing a spray can of clear coat at your local paint shop and spraying the edges of the damaged area. Just scrape off the ‘cloudy’ areas and after cleaning it thoroughly, like a wound, spray on the clear coat. What this will do is stop the water form getting in and keep the clear coat from flaking any further.

There are a lot of awesome Bass boats out there with engines getting bigger and bigger! But when you think about it; in order to make a stronger product, weight is always a factor. So in order to push that big beautiful heavy machine you need power, hence the 300 horses to keep up with the lighter, more stealth rigs.

I am not a boat ‘racist’ by any means. There are incredible rigs out there that are superb Bass fishing machines. Ranger, Bass Cat, Triton, Skeeter, Champion, and Pro Craft, to name a few, are great examples of solid Bass boats. Unfortunately, they get old too! So why forget about them. Why not keep their luster and beauty for years to come by taking care of them. Keep them looking their best! An old Bass rig, what ever the make, is a proven rig in keeping up with the vigorous Bass fishing adventures on the water. You never know, that old rig can teach us a few things about Bass fishing. If only some of them could talk!

Bottom line; be proud of your old rig! Look at it this way. When pulling your old and ‘mature’ Bass boat into a boat launch parking lot picture your rig as the well kept sparkling old Cadillac pulling into a BMW parking lot. You can’t help but get stares!

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