Adding scent to nightcrawlers for sturgeon

Ok, so I know the whole adding scent to baits for sturgeon has been beat to death but I have a quick question…

We normally do OK, or I guess in our minds OK for the one weekend we fish sturgeon a year. We use crawlers as we fish an inland lake and haven’t experimented with much else. This year I wanted to try adding scent such as Sturgeon Frenzy/Sturgeon Cocktail.. Now with crawlers obviously they’re a little harder to inject versus say cut bait.

Has anyone here messed with a scent delivery device? Such as adding a small piece of cut foam soaked in scent then put on the hook? Our leaders are mason line so I’ve thought about soaking those

Where are you fishing

Inland lake in Wisconsin!

Yellow.

I know a fella that soaks his crawlers in ketchup and swears by it. Me? I’m more of a traditional type of guy.

I have used a syringe and needle to inject scent into the crawlers. You need a bigger needle to be able to inject the thicker stuff. I think I used a nightcrawler scent. It worked. When I did it we caught 37 sturgeon that weekend.

gizmoguy wrote:

I have used a syringe and needle to inject scent into the crawlers. You need a bigger needle to be able to inject the thicker stuff. I think I used a nightcrawler scent. It worked. When I did it we caught 37 sturgeon that weekend.

You have any idea what size needle you had? I was going to try the Pro Cure injector (heard the needle might be too big) or the berkely worm inflater but figured that would be too small.

I wouldn’t have any idea where else to get a syringe.

Edit. Looks like I can go to a pharmacy and buy 10 syringes without a prescription. Going to get some weird looks when I say I’m injecting worms

You want bigger needles than what they have at a pharmacy. Go to a farm supply for veterinary needles.

Bassn Dan wrote:

You want bigger needles than what they have at a pharmacy. Go to a farm supply for veterinary needles.

Thanks, I’ll see if I can get anything at Fleet Farm or Tractor Supply