Thread: Do you use scents?

I have threatened to use some shad oil. I bought some a while back that is pure shad oil and I just tried it once on chenille jigs, but don't think that stuff will ever come out, but I am thinking now that maybe your right I should try it on kip tail jigs.

I love the Bang Garlic. Hand tied jigs hold scent real well.

ordered a custom crappie scent off the web that is oil based. No idea if it works or not....I guess the test would be one of us using it and another one not while fishing using the same jigs and such.

Donald, I used to use Berkley crappie maggots (they are smaller than crappie nibbles) only when the fishing had slowed down, as an edge, but last couple of years I add a half piece of chart. crappie maggot whenever I fish hair or tube jigs and the numbers of bites has really gone up....(that was a long sentence). I have not tried liquid scents but imagine the principle is the same, appeal to another of the fishes senses. Fishing is hard enough, I'll use every advantage I can get.......BC

Originally Posted by Bayoucrappie

Donald, I used to use Berkley crappie maggots (they are smaller than crappie nibbles) only when the fishing had slowed down, as an edge, but last couple of years I add a half piece of chart. crappie maggot whenever I fish hair or tube jigs and the numbers of bites has really gone up....(that was a long sentence). I have not tried liquid scents but imagine the principle is the same, appeal to another of the fishes senses. Fishing is hard enough, I'll use every advantage I can get.......BC

During the hard water season when many times a small lure is the order of the day( 1/64 to 1/32 once with a # 12 or #10 hook I end up cutting the nibbles in 1/2 or 1/3 to fit the smaller lures. The small piece of scent does not interfere with the lure action or looks.

Have used scent on jigs a lot. Crappie nibbles in tubes and Berkley alive one inch minnow threaded on the inside of a Kiptail jig. Also take a jig and put just neck hackle just behind the head and thread the B.A.M. on the hook,it is working great in our cold water now up here. It has a very slow drop just the way the crappies like it right now. Have a great winter season. STEVE

I know this is a old thread but I have a fish story that made me a believer last spring. Me and my dad were at the local hole last spring and were pulling crappie out under a big dock. You actually had to lay on your side and shoot it to get your jig to the fish. Anyway after we got probally 20 that we kept and another 30 that were under 9" and thrown back They got slow, Except for the little ones. I took some "anise smelly jelly" from when I went salmon fishing and smeared that on my jig. I swear that probally the next 6-8 fish were the biggest we caught and they followed my jig back almost to the boat. I would be retreaving fast to be ready to throw again and it would be 2 foot from the boat and they would grab it! If I reeled faster they might have jumped in, lol. Anyway I doupt if I use it every time, but I will keep a jar in my box. Just in case.

Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER

That is a good color combo. Also try it with a light blue head, you will be surprised. Been playing around with different scents on baits but so far I have not been impressed with any of them. From my testing a good spinner helps more than scent and I'm really liking the inline spinners.

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this one eeds a "LOVE" button instead of this like!!!! very nice tie!!!!