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Marty, a severe attack of intense curiosity compels me to ask why you use
scents only on spinnerbaits? My opinions on that have always been rather neutral & ambivilent, so if you know something here I'd love to hear it. Thanks, Bob Rickard (AKA Dr. Spinnerbait) www.secretweaponlures.com --------------------------=x O'))) "Marty" wrote in message ... I am not aware of any definitive information; the subject is quite controversial. I use it only on spinnerbaits, for reasons that I won't get into here. Of course, that proves absolutely nothing. Hope that Rich chimes in on this thread. If he does, he'll have some interesting comments. "E. Carl Speros" wrote in message ... I've tried several bass scents with no obvius results. I temember one that smelled strongly & one that had a vanilla aroma. I see Bill Dance using it on his lures, but he's in the business of selling fishing accoutrements. Any definitive proof? "Then raise the Harp of Erin boys, the flag we all revere, We'll fight & fall beneath its folds like Irish Volunteers" from Dave Kincaids song & CD "The Irish Volunteer" Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhost...eCivilWarRound Carl Speros webmaster. Miss Katie o'Rourke from County Cork |
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![]() "Bob Rickard" wrote in message om... Marty, a severe attack of intense curiosity compels me to ask why you use scents only on spinnerbaits? My opinions on that have always been rather neutral & ambivilent, so if you know something here I'd love to hear it. Bob, about 15 years ago, my catches on SBs started dropping relative to my partner's, to the point where he'd outfish me 6-1 or thereabouts. We used to have pretty equal results. We spent countless hours discussing my problem, and nothing made sense with regard to retrieve speed, cadence, depth, or whatever. Odor kept occurring to me as the only plausible reason. One day I picked up a sample bottle of Baitmate crawfish for 87¢ and put it on an SB the night before an outing. I immediately started catching fish and beat my partner for the first time in years. I then applied the stuff to just about every lure I owned. I either beat him or held my own every time for the next six weeks, which was unprecedented. Then a day came when I caught no bass (pickerel only) and was convinced that the scent was repelling the bass, for reasons I won't go into right now. I have told this story here before and was challenged by Warren on my assumption, but that's neither here nor there. When I got home I washed the scent off all of my lures. The next day I checked them out and all seemed free of the scent, except the spinnerbaits still smelled of crawfish. Then I realized why SBs were my biggest problem--skirt material retains scent, as it is absorbed. Today I have full confidence fishing without scent, except for SBs. Maybe it wouldn't make a difference now, but my head got so screwed up that I have to use it to have any confidence. So that's the bottom line--you can wash scent off just about any lure except those with skirts. |
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Thanks for the info, Marty. To me, that makes a lot of sense.
-- Bob Rickard (AKA Dr. Spinnerbait) www.secretweaponlures.com --------------------------=x O'))) "Marty" wrote in message ... "Bob Rickard" wrote in message om... Marty, a severe attack of intense curiosity compels me to ask why you use scents only on spinnerbaits? My opinions on that have always been rather neutral & ambivilent, so if you know something here I'd love to hear it. Bob, about 15 years ago, my catches on SBs started dropping relative to my partner's, to the point where he'd outfish me 6-1 or thereabouts. We used to have pretty equal results. We spent countless hours discussing my problem, and nothing made sense with regard to retrieve speed, cadence, depth, or whatever. Odor kept occurring to me as the only plausible reason. One day I picked up a sample bottle of Baitmate crawfish for 87¢ and put it on an SB the night before an outing. I immediately started catching fish and beat my partner for the first time in years. I then applied the stuff to just about every lure I owned. I either beat him or held my own every time for the next six weeks, which was unprecedented. Then a day came when I caught no bass (pickerel only) and was convinced that the scent was repelling the bass, for reasons I won't go into right now. I have told this story here before and was challenged by Warren on my assumption, but that's neither here nor there. When I got home I washed the scent off all of my lures. The next day I checked them out and all seemed free of the scent, except the spinnerbaits still smelled of crawfish. Then I realized why SBs were my biggest problem--skirt material retains scent, as it is absorbed. Today I have full confidence fishing without scent, except for SBs. Maybe it wouldn't make a difference now, but my head got so screwed up that I have to use it to have any confidence. So that's the bottom line--you can wash scent off just about any lure except those with skirts. |
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Marty, a question just occurred to me: Were those spinnerbait skirts made of
rubber, or were they they made of silicone as are those used today? I know that rubber will absorb scents, but offhand I don't believe that silicone does. -- Bob Rickard (AKA Dr. Spinnerbait) www.secretweaponlures.com --------------------------=x O'))) "Marty" wrote in message ... "Bob Rickard" wrote in message om... Marty, a severe attack of intense curiosity compels me to ask why you use scents only on spinnerbaits? My opinions on that have always been rather neutral & ambivilent, so if you know something here I'd love to hear it. Bob, about 15 years ago, my catches on SBs started dropping relative to my partner's, to the point where he'd outfish me 6-1 or thereabouts. We used to have pretty equal results. We spent countless hours discussing my problem, and nothing made sense with regard to retrieve speed, cadence, depth, or whatever. Odor kept occurring to me as the only plausible reason. One day I picked up a sample bottle of Baitmate crawfish for 87¢ and put it on an SB the night before an outing. I immediately started catching fish and beat my partner for the first time in years. I then applied the stuff to just about every lure I owned. I either beat him or held my own every time for the next six weeks, which was unprecedented. Then a day came when I caught no bass (pickerel only) and was convinced that the scent was repelling the bass, for reasons I won't go into right now. I have told this story here before and was challenged by Warren on my assumption, but that's neither here nor there. When I got home I washed the scent off all of my lures. The next day I checked them out and all seemed free of the scent, except the spinnerbaits still smelled of crawfish. Then I realized why SBs were my biggest problem--skirt material retains scent, as it is absorbed. Today I have full confidence fishing without scent, except for SBs. Maybe it wouldn't make a difference now, but my head got so screwed up that I have to use it to have any confidence. So that's the bottom line--you can wash scent off just about any lure except those with skirts. |
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![]() "Bob Rickard" wrote in message om... Marty, a question just occurred to me: Were those spinnerbait skirts made of rubber, or were they they made of silicone as are those used today? I know that rubber will absorb scents, but offhand I don't believe that silicone does. Bob, I don't know for sure. Most of my SBs in those days were the old Bush Hog brand and I'm guessing rubber, but, as I said, it's a guess. |
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Thanks for the info, Marty. To me, that makes a lot of sense.
-- Bob Rickard (AKA Dr. Spinnerbait) www.secretweaponlures.com --------------------------=x O'))) "Marty" wrote in message ... "Bob Rickard" wrote in message om... Marty, a severe attack of intense curiosity compels me to ask why you use scents only on spinnerbaits? My opinions on that have always been rather neutral & ambivilent, so if you know something here I'd love to hear it. Bob, about 15 years ago, my catches on SBs started dropping relative to my partner's, to the point where he'd outfish me 6-1 or thereabouts. We used to have pretty equal results. We spent countless hours discussing my problem, and nothing made sense with regard to retrieve speed, cadence, depth, or whatever. Odor kept occurring to me as the only plausible reason. One day I picked up a sample bottle of Baitmate crawfish for 87¢ and put it on an SB the night before an outing. I immediately started catching fish and beat my partner for the first time in years. I then applied the stuff to just about every lure I owned. I either beat him or held my own every time for the next six weeks, which was unprecedented. Then a day came when I caught no bass (pickerel only) and was convinced that the scent was repelling the bass, for reasons I won't go into right now. I have told this story here before and was challenged by Warren on my assumption, but that's neither here nor there. When I got home I washed the scent off all of my lures. The next day I checked them out and all seemed free of the scent, except the spinnerbaits still smelled of crawfish. Then I realized why SBs were my biggest problem--skirt material retains scent, as it is absorbed. Today I have full confidence fishing without scent, except for SBs. Maybe it wouldn't make a difference now, but my head got so screwed up that I have to use it to have any confidence. So that's the bottom line--you can wash scent off just about any lure except those with skirts. |
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Marty, a question just occurred to me: Were those spinnerbait skirts made of
rubber, or were they they made of silicone as are those used today? I know that rubber will absorb scents, but offhand I don't believe that silicone does. -- Bob Rickard (AKA Dr. Spinnerbait) www.secretweaponlures.com --------------------------=x O'))) "Marty" wrote in message ... "Bob Rickard" wrote in message om... Marty, a severe attack of intense curiosity compels me to ask why you use scents only on spinnerbaits? My opinions on that have always been rather neutral & ambivilent, so if you know something here I'd love to hear it. Bob, about 15 years ago, my catches on SBs started dropping relative to my partner's, to the point where he'd outfish me 6-1 or thereabouts. We used to have pretty equal results. We spent countless hours discussing my problem, and nothing made sense with regard to retrieve speed, cadence, depth, or whatever. Odor kept occurring to me as the only plausible reason. One day I picked up a sample bottle of Baitmate crawfish for 87¢ and put it on an SB the night before an outing. I immediately started catching fish and beat my partner for the first time in years. I then applied the stuff to just about every lure I owned. I either beat him or held my own every time for the next six weeks, which was unprecedented. Then a day came when I caught no bass (pickerel only) and was convinced that the scent was repelling the bass, for reasons I won't go into right now. I have told this story here before and was challenged by Warren on my assumption, but that's neither here nor there. When I got home I washed the scent off all of my lures. The next day I checked them out and all seemed free of the scent, except the spinnerbaits still smelled of crawfish. Then I realized why SBs were my biggest problem--skirt material retains scent, as it is absorbed. Today I have full confidence fishing without scent, except for SBs. Maybe it wouldn't make a difference now, but my head got so screwed up that I have to use it to have any confidence. So that's the bottom line--you can wash scent off just about any lure except those with skirts. |
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Marty wrote:
I am not aware of any definitive information; the subject is quite controversial. I use it only on spinnerbaits, for reasons that I won't get into here. Of course, that proves absolutely nothing. Hope that Rich chimes in on this thread. If he does, he'll have some interesting comments. Do a Google search - RichZ has posted some interesting comments about this subject in the past. |
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:35:02 -0500, E. Carl Speros wrote:
I've tried several bass scents with no obvius results. I temember one that smelled strongly & one that had a vanilla aroma. I see Bill Dance using it on his lures, but he's in the business of selling fishing accoutrements. Any definitive proof? htmlbodyclockfont="green"/clock bgcolor="01100"text="00cc00"centerImg src="http://www.anyflag.com/history/irishreg.jpg" width="320" height="250"border"0"embed src="http://www.wtv-zone.com/Webb/JONI-REB-7/CARLS-GARRYOWEN.mid.gzautostart=/"true"/bodyhtml "Then raise the Harp of Erin boys, the flag we all revere, We'll fight & fall beneath its folds like Irish Volunteers" from Dave Kincaids song & CD "The Irish Volunteer" Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhost...eCivilWarRound Carl Speros webmaster. BRa href="http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/MissKatieoRourke"Miss Katie o'Rourke from County Cork/a My opinion that I have expressed in the past is that it sure doesn't hurt anything. It helps your plastics slide through weeds better. It masks your scent (I don't know if human scent matters, Richz's studies indicate it doesn't matter (from what I remember)). So for me, give me every single possible edge I can have and I will take it. The whole time during the boom lake tournament on day 2 I was constantly reapplying scent, and would get bit shortly thereafter. Coincedence???...probably, but I didn't want to find out otherwise. As Dan, he was there the second day, I had a bag of about 12 different scents from "pro-cure" -- Cheap plug... and probably tried at least 5 or 6 different ones. I really don't know if they make a huge difference, but I will continue using them as long as they don't deter bites. Chris |
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I believe scents work. Not all times and not all places, but I think they do
and I think the success of powerbaits is an expample of that. One question I do have though. . . and I'm not sure this is anything but urban legend. Please someone comment if they've heard of this or no of it's veractiy or not. . .. I read somewhere that some pros will drip significant quantites of scent down a bank for instance and then rework the trail with lures. Sort of like chumming I guess. Anyone ever heard of this. I've never done it but if scents do work....seems like it might be an idea worth trying no ? -- God Bless America Josh The Bad Bear |
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