I was out around the pond yesterday fishing with a spinnerbait.  Just having one of those days where I was glad to be by myself, pole in hand and doing some thinking.

I was wondering if anyone tried putting there spinnerbaits in a Berkley powerbait bag or any other scented plastic bag the night before they go out.

I don't know what the scent would do to the spinner after a while but I was thinking "what the heck!"  

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Soaking them I don't think would help all that much. A spinnerbait is made of lead, metal and a silicone or rubber skirt. The scent would not penetrate or soak into any part of the bait. If you wanted to use scent, then it would be best to spray it on the lure. Now about it being effective or not, there are times when it will help, but not enough to be bothered with it. A bass sometimes will follow a bait real close(especially in clear water) to get a better feel for whether or not it is a food source. Sometimes in vidoes you see bass doing this and pulling off, others times they follow and like it enough to eat it. When they are following it is when I believe that a positive scent can work. I noticed you mentioned Powerbait. Even the scientist Dr. Kieth Jones that helped formulate Powerbait admitts that it can be effective on hardbaits, but the problem is when it is cast out and hits the water, you lose most of your scent. Since Powerbait is water soluable, it comes off on retrieve pretty quick as well. You would have to apply it on almost every cast. Using water insoluable scents like oils(shad oil, crawdad oil, etc) are a total waste of time with this technique because they do not desolve in water, being an oil, and therefore can not produce any scent to a bass. Hope this helps!

Yea I don't think scent has anything to do with bait moving that fast. After the first 2 or 3 casts it'd be gone anyway. I've tried it, I'll admit, but scent doesn't seem to make a difference no matter what bait you put it on.

- Aaron

I think that when scents actually do work, it is more or less because it is masking the "human smell" or sunscreen or bug repellant  we have on our skin.  For spinnerbaits soaking them probably won't do alot of good (see above), but it sure cant hurt just to spray them with some sort of scent.

It certainly will not hurt anything, give it a try.  Even if it only works to boost your confidence it will be good.

Never hurts to try anything. That being said. The thing with spinnerbaits is flash and vibration to attract the fish. My personal philosphy is right lure selection and technique are more important than smell to attract fish. I'll use scent to try to keep the lure in the fishes mouth longer but again with spinners I don't think that's as big an issue as other baits because you're not really likely to let a fish swim with the bait in it's mouth, you're more likely to set the hook as soon as you feel the fish (if the hook isn't already set from the hit). I'm no expert so this is just my 2 cents.

Try sliding a small piece of sponge up the hook shank, then covering that in attractant. It seems to hold the scent longer. It can also make your bait fall slower which is usually a good thing imo