What is the best scent and dispersal system?

[JimD]

Saw the Pro-scent post pushed by the two Florida fishing tv guys. Any good or just tv add?

What is the best scent to place on a bait?

(Yea I do throw gulp but not sure sometimes that it is the best shape or size or action.)

What do you do to make the scent stick on your bait more than a cast or two? This seems to be what separates gulp form the other baits.

Soak in a gulp bucket?
Spray or dab scent on a bait?
Inject the bait with a small syringe
Use a glass rattle cutter cut a hole in the bait place cotton and soak?

Just buy you some dead bait, lot of beer beer and soak the bait in the water and you ingest the beer?


Fished with known board personality before Gulp and his lure dab seemed to be some where between catfish stinkbait and old trapper's secret scent for an East Texas trap line.

[Nwilkins]

Shallowist wrote on this a month or so back, search his post's Jim

Saw the Pro-scent post pushed by the two Florida fishing tv guys. Any good or just tv add?

What is the best scent to place on a bait?

(Yea I do throw gulp but not sure sometimes that it is the best shape or size or action.)

What do you do to make the scent stick on your bait more than a cast or two? This seems to be what separates gulp form the other baits.

Soak in a gulp bucket?
Spray or dab scent on a bait?
Inject the bait with a small syringe
Use a glass rattle cutter cut a hole in the bait place cotton and soak?

Just buy you some dead bait, lot of beer beer and soak the bait in the water and you ingest the beer?


Fished with known board personality before Gulp and his lure dab seemed to be some where between catfish stinkbait and old trapper's secret scent for an East Texas trap line.

[JimD]

Thanks.

NW,

How did your three days fishing go?

I have not been reading the board much lately.

Been busy at the office every night trying to get patients, cases and remodel all finished up.

Need to hear that someone caught my share of the fish while I worked.

Jim D

[plugger]

Read my post CARP if you haven't. It happens alot in our business. You cannot trust ANYONE - they all are the ones you trust or they wouldn't be working for you in the first place.

[shallowist]

So that it's public information. I really believe that msot any natural animal smell will work. preferably something oily, like the fried chicken story that I mentioned in the PM. I like the garlic thing, and it has been used in fresh and saltwater for years and seems to work fine. I did see the Spike it stuff on an isle in Academy the other day, and the vanilla extract is at any grocery store. Garlic will hang with you for hours, and the addition of the vanilla was just to keeo me from gagging on the garlic.

My other favorite was to land the first fish and then wipe the slime all over whatever I was throwing.

[100%Texan]

Way back in the day early seventy's there was a fella in freindswood that made baits and he also had a scent he sold it was anise oil and baby oil mixed.This scent works great there are several guides that still use the scent.I talked to the fella along time ago and asked who would have thought about that.He told me he first tried mint oil instead of anise.The stuff just makes me hungry one smells like licorice and the other candy cane no wonder the fish like it.I use garlic spike it in the little can they sell at academy it works I have been spraying plastics with it for several years now.

[kenny]

Shad oil or as I named it years ago Dr. Tom's Trout Attractor is hard to beat. In the 80's & 90's we were doing a lot of offshore fishing and my fishing partner bought a gallon jug of shad oil. Well mid 90's we started making inshore trips to Plaquemine Parish and found the mother load of trout honey holes. There were about five or six boats from Galveston and Lake Jackson that made the trip every winter.
We drifted shallow flats near deep water throwing topwaters. We caught big trout from dawn to dusk on tops year after year.
One of those years early on my buddy Tom and I were in my flatscat and he had brought some of the shad oil. I had a small plastic bucket we put it in and before every other cast we dipped our topwaters in the oil. We smoked the other boats that trip. They could never figure out what we were doing but were amazed at the slicks we were fishing!

by the way dried shad oil will NOT come of a boat easily.

[JimD]

Kenny- I do remember that dip from the trip long ago still smelled like catfish dip.

In the 80's when I was serious on trophy Deer hunting in ST I used to use Burnahm's real skunk scent till some guy started making the two part skunk mix.
It worked well rattling but as they say a little dab will do you. I had a platform on top of the suv and kept the bottle up there and at the lease and my wife still cussed me worse than usual over that smell. The package shipped in from the PO in a sealed tin can and the smell still found a way out.

[JimD]

FROM Steve:


There's a simple solution that I picked up years ago to help my customers catch more fish. "spike it" the company that makes the tail dip, sells a garlic scent bottle. did in the past anyway. take some of that stuff, it's cheap and goes an extremely long way, add a few drops of Vanilla extract so that you don't choke when around the baits. Each time you buy a bag of tails, add about two or three DROPS! literally!! to the bag and let them soak. A few hours later every tail in the bag will have drawn up the smell and will out produce the tails without the "Juice". It's cheap and easy to make. if you can't find the garilc stuff, buy some garlic powder and the vanilla extract and make it with a lightweight cooking oil like Canola or corn oil. I don't think that the scent is 100% the deal closer, but not having a human scent when they put their nose to the bait is a huge advantage. We don't smell like anything else in the bay systems....



Steve- Seems with the acetone in spike it the smell dries on the bait while the other is oil based and will not stick as long as the dip. What have you found?

Looked at Academy and saw the glow Spike-it.

[lurefisher]

Sensemillia works pretty good !

[Deke]

I used that Bang stuff for flounder fishing. I would spray my plastic every half dozen casts or so. Seemed to work OK. I just wanted them to hold on longer, not really attract them. The thing the stuff does attract is other boats and waders due to the slick the stuff creates when you spray your plastic,lol.