Your Favorite Scent...?

[rs00765605]

I rely heavily on scents on just about everything that I use. Funny thing is, I have a different favorite for each lake. The one I like for Stockton isn't made anymore, it was the old Baitmate #7. I have a homemade one I like on Pomme and Truman and there is another I like to use on Table Rock & Bull Shoals. Not sure why one would work better on one lake than another tho.

[Ham]

Berkley Products (powerbait and gulp) seem to be no argument for most people who have confidence in scents. May not always use them, but even those who dont say that it makes a difference (*fishinwrench). Anyone have opinions on wether it would make a difference or not for White Bass (like on a grub, jig, roostertail, swimming minnow). I always assumed them more of a sight fish then anything else.

I love to fish the spring run on the Sabine River. One of the preferred methods there is to fish a small live crawfish on a 3 way rig from and anchored boat down current. Water visibility can be VERY limited and the only way those fish are finding the bait is by taste and smell. It ain't the only way to catch em, but it can be the best way to catch em.

[Walcrabass]

rs00765605,

The sense of taste and smell in fish is unbelievably accurate and sensitive. I have seen it written that Salmon find their way back to where they were spawned by tasting the water to find the place of their birth. Then you also have to consider genetic tendicies. For example some families like certain foods and others don't. Hence from lake to lake the same species of fish in different places have different preferences. Glad to see a comment from another scent user. The stuff really works!!!! If you can P.M. me I will tell you where to get my favorite for Stockton lake.

[Bitethis]

I rely heavily on scents on just about everything that I use. Funny thing is, I have a different favorite for each lake. The one I like for Stockton isn't made anymore, it was the old Baitmate #7. I have a homemade one I like on Pomme and Truman and there is another I like to use on Table Rock & Bull Shoals. Not sure why one would work better on one lake than another tho.

probably for the same reason that I catch more whites on stockton with a white roostertail, but on bullshoals I do better with a baby bass pop-r or a 3" stick bait...white rooster tail is like a bare hook for me there. Osage river, chartruese roostertail will catch them all day any day, white is useless there for me.

[9LB]

Most of them bass baits look so silly the only reason I can imagine they r biting it is because of the scents

[Walcrabass]

9LB,

I was told one time that the main reason Bass eat these weird things we throw at them is to keep something like that from getting started in the lake!!!!!

[Feathers and Fins]

Squid,