I agree 100% with Jacob , I don't hate dogs or kids BUT neither one has a place on a river bank if they are not kept under control by "Dad", I am tired of driving 100 mi. or more just to get to the fishing hole and have some jerks dog run up to me and jump up on me or try to bite me! I have almost been bitten two or three times. I go fishing to relax Not to have to deal with the guy who never has anybody that will go fishing with him because of his out of control dog. I agree that it is the masters fault that thier dog is out of control But try to tell them that and see what kind of reaction you get from him ,so what do you do? Just give up your fishing in that area that you just drove two hours to get to so some jerk can bond with his dog and ruin the fishing for everyone, I don't know about the rest of you but I go to Catch Fish and get sick and tired of having to deal with someone else's problem. As far as the scent of a dog they Do carry a chemical scent called L-serene , it alarms fish and makes them quite aware that there is a preditor in the immediate area, l-serene is released through the pores and in tests done by fish biologists Dogs tested higher than anything else ,ever wonder why the guy next to you was catching fish using the same exact thing you were and you weren't catching anything ?it could have been that you had a higher amount of l-serene in your system on that particular day . l-serene is produced from the amount of meat consumed so if you had taco bells El Grande beef burritos for dinner there is a good chance that you have a high amount of l-serene in your pores, I know some of you will say that this is all a bunch of bull but do a search on l-serene or talk to a fisheries biologist . By the way Mooch it is possible to take your dog fishing and cast upstream and out and catch fish because the scent of the dog is going downstream Not up, the person you talked about that was catching one fish after another when nobody else was had the Hot spot that day .I have caught a lot of fish standing next to other guys when they weren"t because I had the slot were the fish were holding, and the same thing has happened to me when someone else was lucky enough to be in the zone. by the way did the fella you talked about punch his card when he handed off his rod to all those other poor fisherman who couldn't catch their own fish or did he have them punch the fish on thiers so he could keep fishing and not give up his spot and make sure that he was the one that caught every fish in that spot instead of letting someone else have a chance of hooking and playing thier own fish!