This is spooky.
It ain't no myth there is far to much evidence documentary and testimonial in just about every human culture on earth about the effectivness of the feminine touch in catching fish.
Phil you cite one admittedly spurious example of itwas a woman catching a record salmon but be in no doubt that fish at time of capture was responding to a plethora of natural chemical signals.
How on earth do we imagine that a migratory salmonid finds its way from ocean to spawning ground of its own birth ?
As creatures we are almost oblivious to the the faint chemical signals that we respond unconsiously to in our everyday environment.
I am convinced about the femail pheromone link . This very afternoon I am working on a new still water pattern the "Muff Daddy".