Plastic jig bait

Hey Y'Awl ... lol

I fish northern lakes and rivers (Canada) and use mostly jigs and rubber apparels on them, or I use Carolina rigging method, or a modified Texas rig at times.

The bait style soft bait used so far are Berkleys and Yum. I like Yum better cause they are salted. Want to know if I am to expect better results using the new biodegradable and fish eatable Gulp brand ?

Tx

Tx

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GULP is very popular here, Pecheux, much more so than YUM. However, we fish a different environment for different species.

In your territory I think I would like to try the GULP nightcrawler behind a spinner for walleyes, smallmouth and trout.

For esox I still prefer in-line spinners, spinnerbaits, spoons and hard baits.

For ice fishing I prefer single malt scotch, neat, in the lodge. Wouldn't catch any fish that way but I would be comfortable.8)

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Try foodsource worms, they have been getting a lot of attention lately. They are made from real food so they are supossed to give off good smell, and since they are made from real food they are biodegratable. I didnt like the gulp brand when i used their wax worms for ice fishing, real worms worked much better

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I agree that live bait is best most of the time. But basicaly I am trying to find out if the GULP brand being more food (or bio) would be more attractant than other brands (plastic)

I used yellow Gulp worms (espensive) among other things and has less success than with Yum (cheaper)

Sooo I wondered if anyone else had better luck than me using the Gulp baits.

Cheers

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I've caught fish on the Gulp baits. But it seems like they stiffen up after they've been in the water for a while. I'm going to order some of the Foodsource lures and give them a try. But, if I could only put one bag of plastic baits in my tackle box they would be 4" Senkos.

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Well I think I may be able to offer one suggestion to this situation. Because I make my own baits and don't buy any of the prescented baits I spent about 5 years testing different add on scents to my baits like Jacks Juice and Bang and Fish Formula and about 2 years ago I found a scent maker in North Carolina and I tried his Hawg Sauce and that has made all the difference in my soft bait fishing. My hook ups are a lot better and my fish catching ratio is up about 40%. I fish Jigs often and I make my own trailers and I use his products on them also. You can go look at his products on www.cbshawgsauce.com
I saw an article in B.A.S.S. in the womens division that Juanita Robinson won on Lake Amistad 3 weeks ago and came in 3rd in the Womens Classic last weekend and she acredited alot of her success in both events to his products. Hope this helps.
softy

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What does it smell like, garlic? The MegaStrike seems to be the most popular up here. I just bought some of the Berkley stuff but have not tried it out yet. I got some Jacks Juice/Garlic late last season but have not used it enough to give an opinion.

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Also, used the Yum/Crawfish scent last year but stopped using it because it dyes anything you get it on red.

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i use Spike It, which is a scent and dye, it comes in all different colors so sometimes ill use a little on the tails of my lizards and even a little on sencos in mucky water.

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CB's Hawg sauce comes in several different scents and is in liquid oil based, waterbase or a jel like smelly jelly use to come in and I use that Bass Honey and the Crawfish. I think the fish have got so use to the garlic that I wanted something else and the Bass Honey is working great. The Crawfish was just released this past month after a year of field testing and it recieved rave reviews so I now have some of it and will be using it on my jigs and craws. I just recieve three jars of it Wednesday. It is like baits that rattle. I am seeing more companies looking at going back to non rattling baits again because the bass are getting programed to that sound like they are to the garlic. JMHO