meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Salt Strong Fishing

EP 551: MYTH or FACT? Watermelon Smell Reveals Trout Honey Hole

Salt Strong Fishing

Joe Simonds

Bassfishing, Wilderness, Saltstrong, Sports, Fishingtips, Fishing, Fishstrong, Redfish, Saltwaterfishing

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

There are quite a few fishermen who swear that the smell of watermelon (or cut watermelon) on the water is a dead giveaway for awesome trout fishing.

So we brought on our panel of 4 anglers to discuss if they have ever experienced this watermelon trout fishing hack.

What do you think?

Listen in to find out.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast, disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it, prepare

0:11.4

to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.

0:16.7

And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.

0:20.4

Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

0:25.2

Hello, soft front nation, Joe Simons, what diamonds back again?

0:29.6

Got a crew here, Lukey, Matt and Yacht, Marky Mark, funky bunch, what's up, dudes?

0:38.4

What's going on there? New debate, new debate to discuss.

0:42.4

Big debates. Basically is why watermelon smell is a dead giveaway for a speckled trout.

0:50.8

So, there's quite a few articles in this apparently. Luke's still not a believer.

0:57.6

He's a Justin Bieber fan, he's a believer, but how to believe in this.

1:02.0

Well, we're in the tournament with Mark and his wife Ashley.

1:06.2

And Ashley says, oh my gosh, stop, I smell watermelon.

1:09.8

There's trout nearby. And Luke and I look back at it like, what did you put in your coffee

1:15.4

this morning? And lo and behold, there were trout nearby. And so they went on to tell us this long

1:21.3

story about how every time they're finding a big trout pole, there's the smell of watermelon in

1:28.6

there. And I'm not smelling it personally. Luke's not smelling it. So I was like, maybe this is

1:34.0

kind of like aparagus. You know, where some people can smell theparagus and their pee. You know,

1:37.8

talking about like, I can smell it. If there's someone tint over the urinal, I can smell they

1:43.5

had aparagus and there's some people they can't smell on themselves. So I was like, what's going

1:47.6

on here? I smell no watermelon. We get back to the house and they keep asking to keep talking

1:53.4

about this watermelon thing. And it's all over the place that trout slick smell like watermelon.

2:00.8

What the heck? So what do you guys think? Have you actually smelled this? Any of you besides

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joe Simonds, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joe Simonds and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.