I tried fish attractant for 'gills once, only once. What they don't tell you is that if you spill it on your shirt, it will take about at least a half a dozen cycles thru the washer to clean it. That was a 100% synthetic shirt. I shudder to think what a cotton-blend shirt would have involved. For whatever it is worth, I could see the 'gills and the <expletives deleted> things moved upstream of the fly. I would like to point out that the half-empty (the optimisitc view, in this case) bottle has lain exposed in the bed of my pickup, unmolested and unstolen, even on a weekend in Memphis, for FIVE YEARS. That should pretty much tell you all you need to know about "attractants".

Ed, a sadder but wiser toad