The Scent of Your Bait

Scent may have little to do with attracting a strike, but I think it can
help you keep a bait in the bass' mouth longer. I use Mega-Strike most of
the time and I'd swear it makes the fish hold my soft plastics longer. I
believe I catch more bass because of it. Maybe not, but it can't hurt and
it's not real expensive. One $7 tube lasts all season and so far since I've
started using it I've been in the money 4 out of the past 5 tournaments I've
fished in my club. I'm a believer.

Rich P


"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in
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"TheBassMan" wrote in message
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Hello fellow angler,

Just wanted to share an impornat piece of advice that had recently
smacked me in the face.

Most of you are probably well aware that the scent of your bait can
give it a large advantage, especially in situations where there's a lot
of other anglers on the lake.

However, you must also make sure that you boat doesn't reek of GAS.
This just happened to me. I was to lazy about cleaning some gas out of
my boat, and then I suddenly realized I hadn't hooked any pass for the
whole morning.

Then it hit me, the boat was laden with gas odor and undoubtedly, the
bait took on some of it. So, if you're having some unusually poor
results, check that there isn't any gas vapor etc. in the boat, as the
bass don't like it one bit.

Be chatting again soon,
Cory Friedman

I'm sure that RichZ will argue that point with you. I feel that scent is
fairly low on the scale of attractiveness to bass. However, with many
anglers, it is a confidence factor and that is HUGE.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com

I must agree with that Rich, it is not an attractant but a savoury sauce,
and salt is present with any creature that has blood. Enough ketch-up can
make even the worst armadillobok meatloaf a veritable delecasee!
(Curly of the three stooges says)
--
Steve

Rich P" wrote in message
...
Scent may have little to do with attracting a strike, but I think it can
help you keep a bait in the bass' mouth longer. I use Mega-Strike most of
the time and I'd swear it makes the fish hold my soft plastics longer. I
believe I catch more bass because of it. Maybe not, but it can't hurt and
it's not real expensive. One $7 tube lasts all season and so far since
I've
started using it I've been in the money 4 out of the past 5 tournaments
I've
fished in my club. I'm a believer.

Rich P


"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in
message ...

"TheBassMan" wrote in message
ups.com...
Hello fellow angler,

Just wanted to share an impornat piece of advice that had recently
smacked me in the face.

Most of you are probably well aware that the scent of your bait can
give it a large advantage, especially in situations where there's a lot
of other anglers on the lake.

However, you must also make sure that you boat doesn't reek of GAS.
This just happened to me. I was to lazy about cleaning some gas out of
my boat, and then I suddenly realized I hadn't hooked any pass for the
whole morning.

Then it hit me, the boat was laden with gas odor and undoubtedly, the
bait took on some of it. So, if you're having some unusually poor
results, check that there isn't any gas vapor etc. in the boat, as the
bass don't like it one bit.

Be chatting again soon,
Cory Friedman

I'm sure that RichZ will argue that point with you. I feel that scent
is
fairly low on the scale of attractiveness to bass. However, with many
anglers, it is a confidence factor and that is HUGE.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com

Rich P wrote:
Maybe not, but it can't hurt...

Sorry to come down on you Rich, but I've just read this rationale one
too many times. Exactly how do you know that it can't hurt?

"Rich P" wrote in message
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I believe I catch more bass because of it. Maybe not, but it can't hurt

I won't go into the gory details, because I did that a couple of years ago
and was shot down by a prominent member of this forum, however, I'm 99.9%
convinced that on one occasion the scent I was using (Baitmate crawfish)
actually repelled the bass.