08-22-2008, 09:05 PM
I'm glad that scents have changed over the years. They used to all be oil based. When you would pitch your lure into the water all the oild based scent would come off the lure and float on top of the water in a multi-colored hue oil slick. The attractant is supposed to smell like something the fish likes to eat. Imagine a human lure that smelled like fresh pepperoni pizza !! I bet many would be fooled. Same idea with fish attractants. Although catfish have scent glands all over their body, most game fish can scent food pretty well also.
The use of scents also covers OUR scents we get on lures when we handle them. Rubber worms smell like rubber worms, and that may be the reason for garlic and salt impregnation ....to cover or mask the plastic taste and smell. When using attractants on baits for game fish (other than trout and cats), it may make the bait more attractive increasing your 'catch-to-being skunked' ratio.
It's hard to beat live bait with real scents and real blood infusing the water.
Real bait compared to man made scents is alot like comparing real human intelligence to artificial intelligence. There are things that the artificial stuff just can't do yet ........
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The use of scents also covers OUR scents we get on lures when we handle them. Rubber worms smell like rubber worms, and that may be the reason for garlic and salt impregnation ....to cover or mask the plastic taste and smell. When using attractants on baits for game fish (other than trout and cats), it may make the bait more attractive increasing your 'catch-to-being skunked' ratio.
It's hard to beat live bait with real scents and real blood infusing the water.
Real bait compared to man made scents is alot like comparing real human intelligence to artificial intelligence. There are things that the artificial stuff just can't do yet ........
Ohio Rusty ><(((0>
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