scent on your gear?

[catcher]

Do any of you guys put scent on your gear? or is it just a waste of time and money? I'm always looking for something that will help fill the tub.

Thanks

 

[Charter Tofino]

Always use charlie whites x-10 scent whether hali or salmon. Definatly can trigger hali and i think it helps catch more salmon also. If you watch underwater strikes on camera youll see alot of fish come up to the gear check it out then leave. I dont think they use scent much for hunting prey but when they tuck in behind your gear i think the scent can help trigger a response.

 

[Dogbreath]

Used to believe in it in the past not so much now.

Not that it doesn't work but if there's Dogfish around it'll draw 'em in for sure.

YMMV.

 

[spring fever]

I always use scent and even injectable scents on Hali baits and it seems to always outfish whoever else is in the boat. Course I always give them the slow side of the boat. LOL' -Salmon I use it if I think about it or things get slow and then I try anything-I usually fish anchovy so I don't think it's so critical for me. Seems to me it's what you have confidence in!

 

[Whole in the Water]

I use Butt Juice for hali and Smelly Jelly for salmon lures. For me it is more about reducing my human scent/oils then attracting fish.

 

[Steelhead S2]

I'll use smelly jelly on salmon gear. But I find that when there's new people fishing with me they get obsessed over scenting the lures. If I do a quick pull and drop it again they practically panic if I don't apply more scent. They whine and worry about it until I pull the gear again and apply some. So using scents actually probably costs me fish with the amount of extra down time.

 

[trophywife]

yup, hide the human scent for salmon, and ya buttjuice for the halis.. dont get it on yer fibrglass or you will see the pink stain for quite awhile...

 

[searun]

I was going to reply with some smart a$$ comment like, I always rub my hali jig in my arm pit cause hali's like to eat dead things ...but I'll pass that temptation. Yep, I like to use smelly jelly and trigger X to juice it up.

 

[Jencourt]

Bin using x-10 as well.

 

[Fish Assassin]

I don't use any scent.

 

[Fish-Hunter]

Bin using x-10 as well.

Hey is that the stuff to use to catch dogfish??? LOL
I haven't used any scents, maybe I should in order to get into some more fish

 

[Jencourt]

Funny enough I have not been using it out at kitty because of the dogfish.yet I still caught them consistently as you know.
wonder how many I would have caught if I had used it?

 

[Aces]

Not for Salmon

 

[eaglemaniac]

An excellant product that was highly recommended to me many years ago by an old commercial fisherman is called Nil-Odor. He swore that washing your flashers, hootchies ,spoons etc. preseason helped to eliminate any human scent or fuel odors on your tackle. It's very concentrated and requires just a few drops in your wash tub. It costs about five bucks at Safeway and lasts many seasons. You could also put a few drops in your on board rinse bucket as needed. eman

 

[profisher]

Yes for hali and no for salmon. I've never concerned myself with human scent on the gear.

 

[Reel Knotty]

I've been experimenting with threading a scent soaked cotton ball into my hootchies. So far, so good, but haven't done this long enough to conclude it's merrits.

 

[Osama Bin Hopper]

Halis.

Lot of stink from my setup. Use tide to spread downside of structure I'm set up fishing...

Works every now and then...

 

[spring fever]

For you scent freaks-go to napa or lordco or any car parts place-they have a material for soaking up oil only-I find if you cut it in strips and electrical plastic strap it to jigs or tie it into a hootchie it soaks up the scent and disperses it over a long period of time. I think those cloths are also used to soak up bilge oil as well so may also be at marine stores. Oh yeah one other way to use it-take a plastic prescription bottle with a locking cap attach it with a swivel to the junction of the spreader bar-poke lots of little holes in the cap-stuff the bottle with the oil retaining cloth-soak with your favorite scent-replace cap and now as you fish the scent continues to spread. Replenish once in awhile.

 

[Bassblaster]

I hadn't used scents much, but a trip with my brother-in-law, and then another with a guide in Montana taught me the wonders of WD-40. No Sh#t. It actually works. Saw it in a Field and Stream magazine years before this too. On the trip to Montana my son and I boated over 300 lbw. of Lake Trout in two 4 hour outings. Two different days, two different areas of the lake. I don't know why it works, just that it does. The trip with the b-i-l was for Bass in the Kootenays. 36 fish caught and released between 4 of us in about two hours, and probably just as many long releases or missed strikes.

 

[Karma-Kazi]

My grandfather and I once cut up my grandmas Shamwow into strips and soaked them in butt juice. Caught a few halis on that day!

-Steve