I've used crawfish and garlic. I've find garlic more effective is there another scent I should be trying?

Anise, or fish oil. Many of the commercial scents are based of of these. Many of the garlic and crawfish ones use fish oil as the carrier for the scent. A number of the first scents to hit the market used Anise oil. The BaitMate line comes to mind.

I use crawfish scent on crawfish crankbaits.

i use a baitmate bass scent regularly on topwater baits.

i use my garlic scent as my change up pitch is nothing’s happening.

i had baitmate worm crawler scent but I don’t see it anymore.

8 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

Anise, or fish oil. Many of the commercial scents are based of of these. Many of the garlic and crawfish ones use fish oil as the carrier for the scent. A number of the first scents to hit the market used Anise oil. The BaitMate line comes to mind.

There's an fisherman/author by the name of Shawn Kimbro who has written about the benefits of Anise Oil. I guess it's time for me to take notice.

I’ve used it for as long as I can remember. Garlic and Anise the most. 

 

I won’t touch the debate as to whether it is necessary, if it works or not, or whatever. I find that it doesn’t seem to hurt. 

 

But some of my soft plastics I will not spray at all. Berkley stuff. I’m sure it’s all a head game. 

 

I find, and only an opinion, that garlic is more appealing to river smallies. I’m sure it just a coincidence. I really have no fact base study done on this. I just go with the flow and continue to use it. But I don’t use that much of it that I would buy stock in Baitmait or Chompers. 

I use megastrike's crawfish, garlic and shad.  In fact my tackle bag smells horribly of their garlic scent

Have used Smelly Jelly's Bass Feast for years....and hopefully for many more years

 

Sex Panther by Odeon, 60% of the time it works every time.

 

Allen

I've used this stuff on my frogs and creature baits for years.

I'm a Megastrike man.  Brush my teeth with it, style my hair, rub it into sore joints, heck I spread it on toast! 

12 hours ago, bayvalle said:

I've used crawfish and garlic. I've find garlic more effective is there another scent I should be trying?

No, there isn’t. Stop buying more. You’ve wasted enough money already ?

So the wife and I were out fishing last weekend up in the river and I started slaying some white bass on a crankbait. She switched to the same one but I kept catching.and she didn't. It didn't come to me that I'd give mine a few swipes of Fish Sticks...She did the same and started catching...so I am a believer in it. I've seen this happen before.

 

Unfortunately the Bass didn't really want to play (caught 1)..but we limited out on Whites. I like fish sticks...1 tube lasts a very long time if you keep it out of the sun (melts). Other than that, a very non messy way to put on scent.

52 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

No, there isn’t. Stop buying more. You’ve wasted enough money already ?

Does my wife have an account here?

I’ve been using Berkley Gulp scent in the spray bottle for a couple years now. I especially like to give a bait a hit of it right after catching a pike or muskie, not sure if it helps a ton but I figured it can’t hurt to hide any scent of a big predator from a bass. 

Dr Keitth Jones Berkley Fishing Biologist has written several articles where Berkley proved bass can detect odors like garlic or my scents carries by gels and anise oil has extremely little reaction affect.

Every time I read something Jones write my eyes roll back! I am thinking all the scents I had good success with bass can't detect or don't react to. 

I ad very good success with Berkleys Power bait scent so I can't take their research as a grain of salt. Oh bye the way bass don't react to salt either according to Jones.

Maybe we all should just put scent in our noses instead on the lures.

Tom

In my own completely unscientific testing...it doesn't matter as much

as we think. I've used numerous scents and plain ol' plastics with 

whatever scent they have in them. My results have been fairly equal

leaving me to conclude .... I forgot what I was going to say.

12 hours ago, Harold Scoggins said:

I've used this stuff on my frogs and creature baits for years.

Me too.  I like the way the gel 'sticks' to my hard baits.

I have alot of confidence in Fish Sticks, specifically their crawfish & minnow scents.

 

However, I have marshaled twice in BASS events and have spent a full day with 5 different anglers (Ish Monroe, Dennis Tietje, Alton Jones Sr, David Fritts and Gerald Swindle).  I realized later that none of these 5 guys used any scent on any of their lures at any time of the day.  

13 hours ago, OCdockskipper said:

I have alot of confidence in Fish Sticks, specifically their crawfish & minnow scents.

 

However, I have marshaled twice in BASS events and have spent a full day with 5 different anglers (Ish Monroe, Dennis Tietje, Alton Jones Sr, David Fritts and Gerald Swindle).  I realized later that none of these 5 guys used any scent on any of their lures at any time of the day.  

Thx for the insight.

MegaStrike for 20 years or so...probably going to stick with it for another 20.

 

It matters is if you think it matters ?

I use "worm juice" for two purposes first as a lubricant because I fish in grass a lot and the "worm juice" helps my plastic baits slide through easier. I use Fish Formula II or Baitmate (clear) with a ½ oz of 100% pure anise oil added; this is to mast any odor my plastic may have pick up.

 

The only place y'all find 100% pure anise oil is at your local pharmacy, the rest will be 40-70% max.  

On ‎8‎/‎22‎/‎2019 at 9:04 PM, papajoe222 said:

Me too.  I like the way the gel 'sticks' to my hard baits.

I've never used it on my hard baits, but you're right about it sticking. I'll smother my frog or soft plastic with the stuff and it lasts. Only downside to the stuff, my hands smell like crawfish for awhile after using it. Other than that, the bass really like it.

DO NOT spray Berkley gulp if your girlfriend is downwind in the back of the boat. Although I just felt like I got revenge for all the spray sunscreen and OFF I have ingested over the years 

And Never keep JJ's magic in the house..