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Scents
Yes? No?
I used to use them religiously and still do with flukes. I did an experiment in clear water where I could see the fish when scents first became popular. I used Kick-N-Bass garlic. As I said in another post, long story short the bass pretty much ignored the scentless bait but attacked an identical bait with scent. I need to remember to use them more.
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I am curious why you use scents with Flukes and not other baits?
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I don't know if it really helps or not, but I use Yum garlic spray on my jigs and soft plastics. Actually, I've sprayed the Yum garlic spray into bags of plastics and they hold the scent very well. Like I said, I don't know if it helps, but it seems to. I know it doesn't hurt.
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I use scent on all my soft plastics but not on hard baits. I feel it helps them hold on longer but I have no real proof to defend that. I usually use crawfish scent.
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I have a few different smelly jelly's; a couple of weeks ago I was out fishing and nothing. So I whipped out the smelly jelly's and I had a lot more followers, but not committers. I'm not convinced they work.
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C-rig, I really do not have a reason for only using it on flukes. The truth be told I only seem to think about it with flukes-just got out of the habit. Also, nowdays a lot of baits come already scented-powerbaits, coffee tubes, wave worms just to name a few. Now that I posted this topic I'll remember to start using scents more
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I really like scents.Loved the old fish formula with scales but can't find it anymore.I think they definitely help.
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Reb I feel like you wrote my answers.
I use to use religiously, spray on plastics, bio edge wands on hard bodies. F2 spray cause I like Yums, SK coffee spray cause the forum PROMISED I'd not only catch fish but GIRLS TOO! (remember anglers ). Then I read that bio-edge looses potency after a year. Then I got thinking, they all got BIO something in them now, maybe they all loose and I'm paying $10 a bottle for 'placebo' effect. Plus the sprays were messing up my jig skirts, a bait I really liked to 'scent'. Plus I got lazy. Plus carrying them day after day shore fishing almost guaranteed a 'scent accident' in happening. Plus as said, most plastics are already scented now a days, hence is the need still there? I still believe scents can make a fish hang on the bait longer, maybe a few seconds but some times that's all that's needed. But I'm not a big believer that they actually 'attract' a fish. Of all the senses a fish uses to feed, I think 'smell' is way DOWN the list. This year I used NONE!
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Spike it garlic is my favorite.
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