Gasoline and braided line

[RockyRaab2]

There's no way to tell for sure short of a full-scale science experiment, but I suspect that the smell of gasoline is not exactly unknown to fish. With all the outboards zooming around out there, there's gasoline in the water already. I think I read in the In-Fisherman magazine recently that such a study was conducted and gasoline was one of the smells that had the least impact on fish. One of the most negative was insect repellent, specifically DEET.

My concern with gasoline-soaked line would be line strength. How petroleum affects a given polymer is uncertain.