re: How far can you smell a paper mill?

you're actually smelling the waste water ponds, so where ever they are located. Used to be in a hunting club that surrounded the WW ponds for a mill. Was terrible to hunt around, but had the biggest deer around the ponds, and unmolested

The one I am in today is smelling rather ripe after dumping their stock tanks

Pogie like the bait fish? What do they do with the Pogie? Package them for sale in boxes?

You ever driven by a cattle feedlot in texas or out west where there are 1000s of cattle at a time on small acreage? That's a bad smell too.

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Pogie like the bait fish? What do they do with the Pogie? Package them for sale in boxes?

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No, not for bait. Pogie (menhaden) is a really oily fish and they use it to make commercial fish products. They first steam cook them to break down the fish and drive the oil out. They press the cooked fish and collect all the liquid so they can skim the oil off and purify it into fish oil. The cooked and pressed carcasses then get ground up into fish meal for animal feed and fertilizer. By weight, pogie is easily the largest fishery in the Gulf of Mexico, over a billion pounds per year.

All that fish and waste just cooking and rotting and rotting and cooking creates a truly horrific smell. I remember going to the Coonass Riviera as a kid during the summer. If the wind was blowing onshore and you had to wait for the ferry at Cameron to the North of the pogie fish plant... >>SHIVERS<<<

The chicken killing plants around Hattiesburg/Laurel are pretty damned vile smelling, too.

You can definitely smell bogalousa in Pearl River during the winter when the wind is out of the North

me - about 5 miles
my wife - about 50 miles

You can smell bog in Covington, not sure how far that is.

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There is a landfill right before Millhaven to the right if you’re going west on I-20. That’s probably what you smelled.

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Oh no! Lol. That is a way worse smell

I used to have to drive to Dulac to unload offshore supplies. Summer job. On my first trip there back in '85, I got my first pogie smell experience. I had no idea what it was until someone told me. I couldn't believe people could actually live in the area. Every trip thereafter I would tie a bandanna with Old Spice around my face just to keep from pitching my breakfast. Disgusting odor. Hated going there.

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