Scents and attractents....

[Fab]

I know this is a topic mentioned before and I can't find it otherwise I would've replied in that forum and not created a new one, but King Dinger and I had this discussion last weekend when at Alberts and it made me think back to the conversation and ppls thoughts on the topic.... Some didn't believe it worked, but there were all the theories about suntan lotion and fuel etc etc.....

If you guyz think fuel etc negatively effects the fishes behaviour, why would you not think that there was a scent that would appeal to the basses pallet???? :roll: :wink:

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[pomerob]

Fab in short. If you had a bad BO ppl will think you stink (petrol and suntan cream) but if you wear axe deo (yum scent), dont believe the adverts, the woman arnt going to fall all over you :evil:

I wish I could find that previous post, senko mentioned some scent that has a chemical reaction with the bass when they take the lure preventing them from spitting it back out.

[Lukas]

The only post I could find with the related tpoic was the following.

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It had nothing on the atrractants.

[Lukas]

Look at Bassa's post on scents

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[bassmaster]

Howzit

I have been checking out different scents lately. The best one I have found, not that I have tried it is Megastrike. It contains amino acids that the bass needs to survive and therefore produces more strikes. Loads of Pro?s swear by it. I am trying to get some? Check it out here. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.megastrike.com">http://www.megastrike.com</a><!-- m -->

To answer you question though fab, the only thing I can think of which is something I have often thought of is what if the fish is not into that flavor that day. Most lures are pre scented. But what if the fish don't want garlic etc that day, and then what do you do if your lures are galic scented? Drown it in crawdad sauce?? Just my point of view?.

[Shannon]

Fab, we could go on about this for hours. I have a book that was published in the States called "Bass Fishing - A Scientific Approach".
The guy that wrote the book is a Marine biologist and has spent the last several years studying bass, literally inside out.
He works for Pure Fishing aka Berkley in their research dept.
On a study they did with different scents he found that the majority of scents didn't gain many more strikes but what they did find is that the bass tended to hold onto scented baits for longer. With no scent the average hold time was 2 seconds, with scent it went up to as high as 9 seconds. That's 4 times longer for you to wake up.
The interesting part was the fact that with most of the readily available scents only 2% of the bass bit the bait a second time, except for one - Worm Extract, this had a whoping 78% second bite and a 42% 3rd bite rate (and no I still can't find a bottle of this stuff). But it wouldn't suprise me if they had a bit of this stuff in their Gulp! products.

In my personal experience sometimes scent doesn't seem to matter, but I have had days when the fish just won't hold the baits long enough, add some scent and the problems sorted.
I've also watched fish swim up to my bait (Cheap silicone worms), put their nose on the bait and turn away. I've then added scent and managed to coax a bite out of the same fish.
Petrol on your hands most definately affects your results negatively

[Guest]

I am a firm believer in YUM garlic, it's all I use on my baits and hands. But if you remember reading my contribution the the post - "Lunkers and Pigs", my PB of 5.38 was caught on a lure that I had just handled with petrol drenched hands! Now either this is one dodgy 'addict-cum-snorting' bass that needs rehab, or he spotted the lure from a distance and just smashed it! No science just pure aggression!!

[robfisher]

Sheeezzz Fishton remind me not to fish with you then? that Yum Garlic really stinks? I do use it but make sure I spray it off the side of the boat and triple check the wind direction.

[Guest]

Sheeezzz Fishton remind me not to fish with you then? that Yum Garlic really stinks? I do use it but make sure I spray it off the side of the boat and triple check the wind direction.

I dig it, imagine an edible version sprayed on popcorn! Yum!

[robfisher]

I dig it, imagine an edible version sprayed on popcorn! Yum!

I do enjoy garlic? but at that strength? Gross Dewd!

[lazy-ike]

this toppic will be discussed untill they can make a fish talk so that they can ask it what it likes.
i would say it's a confidence booster.
i think they can to a degree smell stuff like you said if they can smell petrol they can surely smell the yum lpt i put on evrything :twisted:

[robfisher]

I have been checking out different scents lately. The best one I have found, not that I have tried it is Megastrike. It contains amino acids that the bass needs to survive and therefore produces more strikes. Loads of Pro?s swear by it. I am trying to get some? Check it out here. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.megastrike.com">http://www.megastrike.com</a><!-- m -->

I found a tube of Mega Strike this morning at the Ninja?s shop? R165 a tube? it was the last tube? I will test it tomorrow at Inanda!

[Guest]

I have been checking out different scents lately. The best one I have found, not that I have tried it is Megastrike. It contains amino acids that the bass needs to survive and therefore produces more strikes. Loads of Pro?s swear by it. I am trying to get some? Check it out here. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.megastrike.com">http://www.megastrike.com</a><!-- m -->

I found a tube of Mega Strike this morning at the Ninja?s shop? R165 a tube? it was the last tube? I will test it tomorrow at Inanda!

That will be interesting Rob, let us know how it worked?

[hero]

ONLY ONE DIP AND GLOW GET YOU THE MONSTER FISH

SPIKE-IT

[robdog]

I have Spike It and Yum scents and both seem to get the fish to hold on longer.