Forgotten/Rotten Bait ... Ever Do It?

[fishbones]

Left a live eel in a friends car one night about 15 years ago. Wasn't planning it, but saw him parked at a bar after saying he couldn't fish because he was working late. Unfortunately for him, he left his window open. I forgot about it until I ran into him a few days later when I saw his bike parked at the same bar. He said he couldn't drive because the car smelled too bad but he didn't know why. The eel had gone under the drivers seat and got under the carpet and died. He never figured out who did it and to this day still thinks it was someone else.

[Pete_G]

At the previous SWE we had a freezer failure. It was a vertical freezer, thankfully, not horizontal.

It was a potent mix of squid, a saved for sharking bluefin carcass, bunker, and dead eels.

The freezer was well sealed and minimally used so it took a while to detect that something was wrong. And it was very, VERY wrong. Not sure how long it had been cooking for but there was a yellow slurry with barely indentifiable bits from the various creatures that were in there.

Now I grew up working on a farm, so less then desirable smells don't phase me as much as others but even I was impressed and it remains a benchmark in foulness. Everyone else was instantly dry heaving and running outside. It was comedy...

Took a lot of Ozium and time to knock the smell out of there.