I always have a cigar when fishing, but you do have to watch out for the line touching the cherry thing. Never happened to me in the summer, but I have done it many times when ice fishing. The only thing is, the main game fish here are pike and walleye, two fish that have as good a sense of smell as most fish can have. These fish can detect the scent of tobacco or smoke very well, and it is one of the most sure fire fish repellents that there is. When I was doing my undergraduate research, one of the projects that I worked on involved pike. Believe me when I say that they don't like tobacco. They would be attracted to my bait like crazy, then I would light up a cigar, touch the next batch of bait, and you would think that all the fish had vanished from the river. So when I smoke and fish, I keep some heavy duty hand cleaner around, and use it before I touch anything that is going in the water.