Has anyone ever tried Gulp! Alive bait spray, the Gulp! Alive Minnows or the Bobby Garland Mo' Glo Slab Jam?
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Has anyone ever tried Gulp! Alive bait spray, the Gulp! Alive Minnows or the Bobby Garland Mo' Glo Slab Jam?
I havnt used either of those but I use crappie nibbles on a regular basis.
Yeah, I had no luck at all with those things.
When you get a minute, youtube Mo' Glo Slab Jam and those guys are getting hit after hit
SlabSlobber has turned out to be a great attractant for a ton of guys. There is those times that the nibbles do good but Slab Slobber seems to work better for me.
I'll order some thanks!
I use the nibbles most all of the time with great success, but I'm using something which is new to me called "Smelly Jelly" I am seeing good results so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erin Brewer
Not a fan of scents except for Catfish . Challenge anyone to prove they work on Crappie when your ready .:twocents Tried my own test once and it failed to help . I fished several stake beds with jigs till bite stopped then used scent/nibbles and failed to make more bite . I figure if it helped I should catch more Crappie after adding to my jig but if failed every spot .
None of it works man...pure snake oil sold by carpet baggers...especially those nibbles worst product ever....spread the news.
I'm a newb at trying to specifically target the crappies, i always see mixed comments about the use of scents or nibbles. It appears that if you are on them an experienced angler will catch alot and even a novice will catch some? even the best bait won't make up for experience and technique.
One thing i always wondered was tipping a jig with small piece of live worm or just using a worm on a jig head. This seems like the best of both worlds old school pan fishing and newer jig head combinations. I'm sure someone has tried this out??
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Originally Posted by Slowboat
Diddo. I purchased the Berkleys Gulp! Alive Minnows .... not one bite. I purchased the Bobby Garland Mo' Glo Slab Jam .... not one bite. I purchased the Crappie Nibbles .... again, not one bite.
End result, they went in the trash can. I put a fresh hook on with a live minnow, I caught 6 in 20 minutes. I'll stick to what I know works for me.
Have a great day! I found someone through facebook that is going to take me night fishing for Crappie, so I'm pumped about that!! Wish me luck! :highfive
That's good to know Mamba. But sometimes you just have to try it out! That's what makes fishing fun for me anyway is trying new things. Probably will save my money next time I see that stuff on the shelf though.
The information on this site is geat and I wouldn't dismiss any of it completely. You just have to take it and use as you can. Usually something will work good for you and give you more confidence.
Good luck night fishing. I bet Minnows will work great then too!
Thanks!
I just met someone through FB on the local lake page that has offered to take me night fishing for some Crappie! I am super pumped and I'll post any pics of the slabs I catch! :fish:HandsClapping:fingerdance
Why would a scented product not work? Do crappie not detect it? Would it not provide an additional attractant to your artificial lure? I am, in fact, a believer. There are times a plain old jig will work. However, sometimes you need that extra bit of help. I witnessed this yesterday evening. After a lull, I added a nibble, and picked off a few more. I also think it makes them hang on another split second, which helps these old reflexes! I will use minnows, but usually only in winter when they are sluggish. I have too many minnow casualties during the hot summer months.
What works for you may not work for me. I just know that from MY experiences fishing all of my life, scents have Never worked for me. Plain hook and minnow combo, I catch em all day long! We will be tight-lining minnows at night with several poles in the water, so we'll see what happens!
And that's what makes the world go around! Think of all the fun you're missing, strolling the soft plastic aisle in the store and seeing that perfect bait that you know is gonna be Killa! You buy it, take it to your tackle box/bag, and realize you already have 6 packages of the same lure! Ahhh, good times!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamba334
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Originally Posted by ET Fish
Oh, no, sorry for the confusion on this. I'm not implying that I only use minnows and hook. Was just saying I pick that option over scents. Now, as for Crappie lures go - I have tons of plastics/jigs in my tackle box! :biggrin
Remember, too .... ALL baits (live or artificial) have a "scent" !! Plastics have a scent, hair/feathers have a scent, and they pick up scents from everything they touch or that touches them ... and some have the scent already built in.
IMHO, is scent the most important factor ?? No. And I'm not even sure about the idea that gas, oil, sunscreen, bugspray, tobacco residue, etc. are necessarily a turn-off to fish.
In reality, it's very difficult to really tell whether scents of one nature or another are better than the other, or even if they make any difference at all.
I believe the main factor in whether or not a fish bites your lure/bait is simply a matter of presentation. You make it look like something the fish would consider food, make it easy for them to bite it, & running at a speed that is easy for them to intercept and within their current strike zone ... and you're likely to get bit. :twocents
This is a good thread I have been looking for some as well
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one thing I do know about the nibbles, if the bite is lite, and they are hitting short I have used the nibbles and most of time when they are hitting like that the nibble will seem to make them take it in a little longer , I know this works for me.
Being an avid smallmouth bass angler as well as a crappie/gill fisherman, I can tell you that they can "help" at times. By help, I mean they can enhance your confidence level. That's about all anything can do at the end of your line, right? You choose jigs, plastics, cranks, etc., based on what you believe will increase your success. So if you feel that scent gives you a slight edge, why not go for it? Myself, at times I apply some MegaSrike attractant. Sometimes I don't. Depends on my mindset at the moment.
Just remember, depth & speed control are the absolute defining factors to success. Everything else after that is pure speculative, in my opinion. :)
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Originally Posted by Crestliner08
If that is the case then depth and speed control is speculative also, its scientific fact proven that fish will feed or strike on sight or scent. There is absolutely no reason to believe that fish will not strike on proven scent they are attracted to or at least hold on to a bait that has an attractant on longer than one without. I don't have any scientific proof myself but have read enough of others that are experts in the field to know there is something to it. I know of another post from awhile back that intimidator added some very good information on the subject.
I fish for walleye saugeye and I know if I add a small pc of night crawler to the jig they are more likely to strike it and hold on , than without it. That is scent.
It amazes me that folks that are serious about Ketchn crappie don't think gulp brand Berkeley crappie nibbles don't make a difference ........some a yawl need to come watch an episode with me for sure
Glo white are my favorite and in these parts the purest call them cheating and the others will tell ya they are crappie cocaine .......they for sure make a difference
not always mind ya ....but for sure more often than not
just common scents, fish will bite on something that smells or tastes good to them, maybe not always for one reason or another like maybe they got heartburn from bad pizza or something , I don't know. The power nibbles are the best I've used at least the body of water I fish.
Ok just read this thread, and I have to add something that may or may not gross some out. Pertaining to the scent part, we were floating the Buffalo the other day and we stopped to do a little relaxing in the water. Well, as I was sitting there I noticed several small minnows would swill up to me and nibble at the hair on my legs. I thought that was kinda weird, but not much thought to it. Well as most people do, I had some dead skin on my feet. So, I started scrapping some off in the water. Them minnows loved it!! I then proceeded to show my wife how the little buggers loved it. I would pick off a tiny piece of skin and let the current take it and boy them minners would attack it. So Im guessing that the salt in the skin was the attractant there?! Oh, I also bit off a finger nail and let it float. They tried to eat it also but dont guess they liked the hardness.
I have used some but would not drive back home if I forgot it . lol :biggrin That being said anything that raises you confidence level is good . Nibbles in clear water seems to help but it maybe the color rather than the scent that helps . I bass fish with crawfish spray on plastic's and like it but am skeptical about the success being because of the smell or better concentration . :juggle
so what your saying the scent makes no difference. I find hard to believe you are a bass fisherman and are saying this., to each his own, . No I would not drive home to get the nibbles if I forgot them either but that does not mean I don't know that scent makes a big difference to the fish.
You will not find me on the water without a scent in the boat. I actually have several different "flavors" in my boat at all times. I'm sold on it. Have been for many years. One thing about crappie fishing, you should try something new anytime you can. I always start a day without scent but it doesn't take long for me to apply some. I'm not a nibble guy. I like liquid scents. I find finicky fish holding a bait longer and in many cases a harder bite. That's my two cents.
I have always followed these types of threads. Being an angler its just seems normal to Want to try something you haven't tried. I had almost written any kind of scent off. But I also pay attention to the CDC veterans. And they don't write the stuff off entirely and a lot use them.
So i pick up a jar of crappie nibbles the other day and wanted to share my experience so far. 1st try at a 9000 acre lake only produced a bass and white perch. Not surprising. I have yet to figure this lake out for crappie.
Next was a little city lake that the wife likes. She always uses worms under bobber and rarely catches a crappie usually perch and bluegill. So the bite was very slow for anything so I put my jig under a bobber and go to work. No scent would get one hit and then nothing. Move and same thing. So put on a nibble and get hit till the nibble was gone. Down size jig and tip with a worm, hit once then again and hooked a crappie. ( small 8") then put on nibble again and another crappie on second hit. Also got a blugill.
So my take is it seems the scent kept them coming back. With no scent they figured out it wasn't food quickly after the first hit.
Oh and the wife caught a couple bluegill with hook and worm. The crappie were in same spot just didn't want only worm....
I fished last weekend and was doing a little experimenting with my fishing partner. We rigged live minnows, Berkleys Gulp! Alive Minnows , and plastic tubes. Surprisingly the Berkleys Gulp! Alive Minnows (3 inch Smelt) were slaying the crappie. The bigger ones seemed to bite on it more consistently. We found that the soft plastics were getting pecked away by the blue gills, and the live minnows caught a mix of bluegill, bass and crappie. The Berkleys Gulp! Alive Minnows seemed to catch more crappie with bigger sizes.
Now I am not a crappie fishing pro by any means. In fact, this is my first year really getting into it, I'm still learning all the techniques on fishing for crappie. It could have just been beginners luck, but that was the outcome.
That's strange about those Smelt, Gulp! Alive Minnows.
This guy put me right on top of the fish the other day, I threw one of those on there, fish were hanging in 10 fow, I dropped to 8 ft ... 10 minutes, not one bite.
So, I threw a Crappie Nibble on there ... fished again at 7 ft ... I never once got even a strike. Sad.
So then, I proceeded to change out my jig, I threw some of that Mo Glo Slab Jam from Bobby Garland on there and I caught 3 nice size Crappie.
So I just leave the others at home now. Just my :twocents