Scent

Garlic scent works well for me on bass, my question….would a garlic and salt scent work on soft plastics for walleye?

I’ve almost gotten to the point I won’t allow Chompers in my boat!!!!! I do catch an occasional walleye on them, but not that often. It would be interesting to try.

I do like anything that covers my own smells/flavor and paint/mold release smells from the artifical bait construction process.

I have used various Berkley “scents” and “attractors” and Berkley Power products with great success. Hawger.

Very interesting question? One of the people up at Berkley asked me the same thing this fall (regarding salt……nothing about garlic)

My response then and now is that I haven’t had much experience with salted plastics for walleyes. I have friends that use salted lizards in the spring and do quite well on the walleyes and sauger.

I have had success on the new Berkley Bungee baits that have Bio-Salt in them. Bio-Salt simulates the salt content of live prey fish and studies show that bass (at least) prefer Bio-Salt 100% more than ordinary table salt found in other baits.

So with that in mind, I would definately try baits with bio-salt in them for walleyes.

Great question, I’m going to try more salted baits this season for walleyes so ask the question next year and I will have more data.

Eric Naig

Haven’t tried salted plastics for walleyes yet, but I have had salted twisters out fish the unsalted variety 3 to 1 on a slow bite for crappies……….B

I haven’t used the salted but I really like the three and four inch exude twister tails in chartreuse flake. Steve

I know that some guys put garlic scent to every lure and bait when fishing the ole’ miss for sauger/walleye, but I don’t see them clearly out fishing other anglers. I don’t believe that salt/garlic would cause a walleye to strike a bait itself, but possibly the fish would hold the bait longer discerning whether or not its edible. Using spray on scents to cover up the smell of gas, oil, and other foreign smells that get transfered from your hand onto baits seems worthwhile though.

I have found Twister exude plastics to be incredible on how long fish hold on to them. A little about garlic. I throw bread crumbs off of my dock and the bluegills go wild wolfing them down. Went down one day with garlic bread and not one single bluegill ate any of the pieces of bread I tossed in the water. Makes you wonder?

Chris Beeksma

Had to add my .2 cents on this,… Just for giggles….

The original fish scent (1st marketable product on the store shelves) was invented by a “fisherman” and a “Pharmacist.” Anyone ever remember reading this on the spray bottes? Well,… I had to pass this along just for fun. The guy who was the “Pharmacist” was my cousin’s husband. I never asked who the fisherman was. Anyhow, he (and his wife) retired in his mid 40’s many years ago. He just finished building his most recent house on a private island out in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s so big it took 3 years to build. His private boat cove is bigger than my entire yard and his island and house cost more than I could probably make in 50 life-times (as a government employee). Now he fishes the Gulf EVERY DAY and tries NOT to think about the years he spent surviving Minnesota’s long winters – without open water. Of course, not all his money was made on the fish scent stuff, but it was a good start. This all from a guy, who at the time, did not know a bass from a walleye.

It’s a good/true story anyhow. Kind-of leaves you dreaming about your own big $$ marketable “got to have” fishing product. …….. Someday…….Someday…..

Great story,

This afternoon I was talking about some new products on the market for fishing and made the comment “most fishing tackle catchs the fisherman not necessarily the fish”. I’ve tried every scent I could and about all I’ve got to say is if it works for you , improves your confidence use it. I’d never recommend somebody not. When things get slow I don’t think they hurt a thing. Everything I’ve read about them is they mask the human scent, they don’t “attract” fish.

Mike, I agree! No Chompers in my boat! If I want garlic, I’ll go to Tinucci’s or DeMories! Just when you think the scent is gone, it will rain, and get warm….ARRRRGGHHH!

Why couldn’t walleye’s like Captain Morgan, or Budweiser scent? Maybe they dooooooooo……Hmmmm, wait til my next product review!!!

I gotta go do some research!

Tuck