I religously use BANG on my hands. Its the first thing i do in the morning after launching my boat.

I use them on jigs too Ncbass, just forgot to mention them. I'm usually zapping the trailer and get the skirt a little too.

actualy ALOT of soft plastics dont have any scent. like just about the only kind i can think of that do have scent are powerbait. zoom doesnt ahve scent, storm doesnt, culprit doesnt...and so on. yeah it says on the bottle that it has some kind of oil in it i think its like anise oil that gets rid of other scents that repel fish.

My (bad) habit is to take a soft plastic out of the bag and hold it in my mouth while I get the hook ready for it.

I'm here to tell you that Zoom DOES have a scent. It may only be salt, but it tastes great! Culprit has a little, but i don't know if it is enough to even speak of.

There are VERY few baits that don't have some kind of scent to them, and all of the ones I have seen around here are the off brands. There are a few baits I can't do this with because of the scents they have. There is a such thing as too much garlic.

I have fished for MANY years and never used scents at all (and remember when plastic worms never had anything added to them but color).

My biggest problem with soft plastics now is that they are too soft. There was a time when a plastic worm would last through several fish, but now you can rarely use one after one fish has hit it.