Warning: don't let DMSO come in contact with anyone's skin; especially if it has other chemicals disolved within it! (experimental stage)

Thanks Ho and Marty. I think breaking down baitscents to disperse faster will have it's advantages in some types of water conditions, but the bait will not milk out scent for as long. And salmon don't need to have it solvent degraded in order to smell it; they do have great olfactory senses! I agree about the oil break down dispersion property of alcohol. It probably works as well on eggs as your experiment on shrimp Marty. Sardine oil has a thicker viscosity, so harder to break down (and harder to get the oder off your hands). Try those bottle experiments with WD40 and a 70% strength liquid DMSO Marty (90% is likely too hot), and let us know the results on some eggs as well as the shrimp and sardine. Compare the results with alcohol. I think those 2 things will break down the oils, as does rubbing alcohol, without having the inherant costic properties that could bother some fish; but obviously not others. I have not had the watertime to come up with definitive results with experimenting with clammy/fishy smelling DMSO yet. Have to be careful with that stuff. But we all know that WD40 has worked well for years on such as herring, shrimp, and eggs. I believe it's because it will do a similar oil break down dispersion function as alcohol, but it is less costic and more fishy smelling. However, alcohol may change as rapidly underwater as it does in the air. So I would like to hear more about it from St.1. - RT