Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Sense of smell in fish.

How will you hold the "smell" in the trap? I can see crushing garlic and putting it in say a piece of panty hose, but the sardine oil?

Maybe a clear bottle, turned upside down once it's in the water to hold the oil in the bottle? Or a piece of cloth soaked in the oil?

I can catch minnows and crayfish in a minnow trap with nothing at all in it. You'd have to do a couple of tests, like with a bare trap and an unscented trap with what you are using to hold the oil or garlic to make sure that it is the smell alone that is doing the attracting.