I was finally able to try the samples that Ed provided. I did not catch any crappie (barge was dead), but i did catch a handful of channel cats on my crappie rigs, with a few lines broke here and there. I did feel the THUMP, but it was the wrong species... :D The slab sauce and bait butter must have a strong odor as it brought the cats into the crappie barge. on my baby shad BG baits, i just smeared some on each side. with my tube baits, i used a syringe from the pharmacy to inject some slab sauce into the rigged tube... Ed, Thanks again for the samples, Hopefully i get to try these out again in the near future.