Scents??

[scott lewis]

Do you use them?

What have you had sucess with?

I was using Dr. Juice (just trying a new brand)

watch a bedding fish inhale and spit it out before

i could react

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Bang garlic and crawfish, Baitmate's anisoil, and Yum shad. They all work. It's the little added edge when you need it. Always wash sunblock or bugspray off your hands before handling a bait. Attractants won't cover them that well. ESPECIALLY if you're fishing ultra slow like a jig where the fish really can look at the bait before hitting it. Any odd scent and the game is up.

 

[Jim B]

I use the bang garlic and crawfish as well, they seem to work well. I also use smelly jelly in the salt/craw glitter, bass feast and anise scents. I like the bass feast the best, seems to produce well. I also hate trying to wash off all the glitter flake if i use one that has it in it, it get everywhere when you cast. I only use scents when the fish are spitting the bait out to get them to hold on a little longer, if they are hitting it hard i dont bother.

 

[Texas Transplant]

Kick N Bass - both in garlic and crawdad. Really powerful. I need to apply it more often, rather than when I think of it.



Tex

 

[Michael Snow]

Kick'nBass Garlic for me. It's the least "obnoxious" odor to me, and it works. Take a bag of plastics and squirt a little bit in the package, seal it up, and work the baits around. Now, when it's time to use them, they've got the smell.



On BFHP, one of the KnB reps suggests to stop worrying about shad scent on a shad imitator, craw on crawfish imitators, etc. Find one or two scents you like and have confidence in and use it on everything.

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

I am the king of scents......oh, you are talking about bait........nevermind.



TOXIC

 

[Terry Heydt]

Yup, I'm a Bang-man (crawfish scent. Although for garlic scenting, I once ran out of my garlic Bang and stole the wife's garlic flavored Pam cooking spray. Smelled exactly the same to me. Apparently it did to the fish as well. Now I use the Pam spray for "pre-scenting". Put some baits in a freezer bag and hose 'em down the night before you fish; let them soak for a day. Word of warning though, it can cause color bleeding. But you can use that as an advantage as well. Take some white/silver Fin-S and put one red or chartruese lizard in with them. Gives them some highlights which seem to be the trick some days.

 

[Bryan McDonough]

I use scents on all of my baits. And they seem to work. Not sure if the scent catches more fish, just makes them hang on a little longer, and come back a second time. Why not use them, it will at least make you feel more confident.

 

[Larry Harp]

I really never noticed a coralation between using scents and catching bass until recently. I just started using Kick-N-Bass Garlic and I have noticed that I seem to get a strike on the first or second cast after I apply it. Not everytime mind you, just often enough to notice a trend. Could be coincedence...I don't know. The K-N-B does seem to hang on longer. If I get it on my fingers it takes some heavy soap and water to get the smell off. I also like the little squirt bottle instead of the spray which seems to blow back into your mouth and sunglasses no matter which direction the wind is blowing.

At Bass U. Guido Hibdon talked about using WD-40 on plastics. He says it foams when it hits the water and has a scent that masks the human smell. Has anybody tried WD-40?



Harpo

 

[Bob G.]

Harpo,



I've never tried WD-40 for bass fishing, but I used to fish occasionally for lake trout and salmon on Champlain with a former co-worker and he used to spray it on his baits. Might be worth a shot!



Bob G.

 

[Terry Heydt]

Soonerfan Wrote: "If I get it on my fingers it takes some heavy soap and water to get the smell off."



GET IT OFF? Why would you wanna do that? Heck, I use crawfish/garlic as cologne! I figure I need all the help I can get...

 

[Larry Harp]

Terry, I'm guessing you don't have much of a love life. I would suggest a switch to Old Spice maybe. LOL



Harpo

 

[stan jones]

a pro once said take a sponge and show it to a dog. then put some gravey on that sponge and show it to a dog and see if there is a difference. i know we are fishing for bass but any thing to enhance your lure could help. i use oiley scents to make my soft plastics slide thru matted cover better. also years ago some friends and i were drifting three nite crawlers behind the boat for perch without much luck. we put scent on 1 of them and got a fish on that 1. we put that 1 back out without scent and put scent on another 1 and got a fish on that one. we switched a couple of more times and every time the scented one got the bite. of course we eventually put scent on all three rigs. that day scent made the difference. stan

 

[Andrew Zuber]

Chomper's garlic spray...

The stuff stays with soft plastics for a LONG TIME...

It has always outlasted my lure...



az

 

[Terry Heydt]

Sooner, we're talking MY wife here. This is the woman that back when I was looking at the PT 175 said, "Well this 185 one seems bigger...and the engine looks faster, why don't you get THIS one?" Same woman that buys her lures based on the "this one's cute" premise, and STILL catches the bigger fish. (And no, she's not for sale).



And Stan, I tried that trick with the dog and the sponge. When I showed him the sponge he thought it was bath time and bit me. When I showed him the sponge with GRAVY on it he bit me, grabbed the sponge and ran with it. But I think I got the point...

 

[Larry Harp]

Terry, it seems that there are only a few perfect women in the world and you got the last one. I'll send you some Bang for your anniversary. ;>)



Harpo

 

[Bob G.]

Terry H.,



Your'e killing me!! I'd keep the wife and get rid of the dog!!! LOL



Bob G.

 

[Terry Heydt]

Harpo, Oddly enough, 2nd Anniversary was yest. (6/16). Man at the local outfitters said the same thing when I bought her anniversary present - a new spinning outfit (Okuma Metaloid/7' Fenwick HMG).

And Bob, don't know about your idea either - when I shoved a sponge soaked in gravy under the wife's nose SHE bit me too... Avoiding the sponge and gravy test from now on.