You'll Never Think About Scent the Same (Time-lapse Underwater Footage)

Catching carp mostly here in SA(South Africa). Started with plain floaties(pop corn) about 3 months ago and have landed much more than my fishing mates using scent floaties. Next outing might be different?

Scent works! When I drag a crankbait through an area. The bluegill gather and eat it if it floats on the surface. Acts as a cover up too. People have more smells on their hands than they think. Did you gas up the boat,smoke,eat a sandwich, use sunscreen,or insect repellant? Are you sweating a lot?
It doesn't have to even be a bad smell, just unnatural one for your lure presentation.
Scent works good on surface baits too. When slow twitching on the surface you need all the help you can get. That fish needs to rise and hit that floating lure.
I've used Scent for about 40 hrs and I've see it tip the scale many, many times.
Now I use "Mike's gel bass scent".But any Scent is better than human.
Also I had a terrible salmon fishing trip in Niagra river last October. Real eggs weren't working for 6hrs. But I got 2 fish on orange puff balls soaked in Mike's salmon scent.
If you lure fish, you are a puppeteer! Your bit of plastic, wood,rubber or metal needs to seem like real prey.
And Scent can help with that.

What are a couple of the best non oil-based scents to use to get the bass to hold on more?

I was never convinced scent helped much with bass. I think they are more attracted to movement. Flounder are definitely trigger by scent.

In a seminar, Jimmy Houston asked the audience how many put sent on their baits. He then said those of you who didn't raise your hands are liars. When you touch a bait you put your sent on it. Sent are more to mask our foreign sent than as an attractant.
Thanks for all your great content.

I thing you answered an argument with my neighbor. He spends as much on scents as he does on beer. He should invest in more beer!

Yes sir scent is a definite benefit

I feel like I’d use scent in colder months when I’m doing more finesse fishing but in the warmer months I’m not gonna take the time to slow down for scent applications.

I was flipping a maxscent general stick bait wacky rig the other day and was getting no bites. I went back down the same banks with the same lure type and color from another brand with no scent and got 12 bites. Was it timing or lack of scent on lure, or something else? Difficult to say.

Another day I was drop shot fishing and couldn’t buy a bite. I started applying a scent and started getting bit.

Wish there was a solid answer.

Berkley has always claimed the fish hold on longer with sent.
I think it at least might mask the smell of plastic .

I make my own craw scent, I took a buddy fishing and I out caught him 2 to 1.
Next trip, I gave him the scent and he out fished me from the back of the boat 3 to 1
Imo- scent works

I think ya just have to buy more scents, that's what I do when buy a lure that doesn't catch anything. Ha 😅

Exactly why I use scent. They do hang onto it longer. IMHO
Works great to get a tube rigged.

I'm definitely a believer in scents, Berkeley Max scent baits & the bait fuel is my go to's. I actually inject my soft plastics with bait fuel, that way it leaks out slowly & carrys the scent longer. I just use one of my goat vaccine needles that's a large gauge. I take my time handling it on water so I don't stick myself! I think bait fuel even sells an injector now. Idk how much that is? I'll stick with what I've been using considering it's less than a buck

It just depends on the species of fish.
For bass, I imagine the scented baits would get a more violent reaction strike, but who knows, all I know is redfish and drum like scented soft plastics, and they work great in saltwater

Maybe that's why the 6th Sense Panorama wouldn't get bit when I tried it. Out of the package, they smell like some chemical used to clean auto parts or something.

Excelentes tus videos, muy ilustrativos y bien definidos los puntos a mostrar….Felicidades!!

We have a lot of anglers in our Agency and this video was on a phone in the break room. With Agents from Arizona, Nevada, and California in the room we took a poll. All of us use some type of attractant on our soft baits- worms, frogs, and jig trailers to be precise. Most of us simply use a solo cup or similar, scoop up a little local water and spray some attractant into the cup. I was taught this as a kid when they first hit the market. We called it dippin & flippin and would troll the shore in one direction then come all the way back to where we started and run the same line with a different bait now that the whole shoreline had been peppered with attractant. Most of the big-fish stories came from the 2nd pass.
Good luck and tight lines 🙂

Use power baits.

I don't know how you come out with so many great videos so quickly, but I'm all for it!

The thing that shocked me is that you didn't even get a nibble on the tubes.

Makes me wonder if when we think we are "deadsticking" or "soaking" a finesse technique to get bites, we really still are getting the bass to come over to investigate the water spash and the lure sinking down vs the actual bait just sitting there.

100% facts scent matters. Looks good, SMELLS good, must be good to eat!!

Steve, LowBrow Fishing has a good video on scent. He uses it faithfully and catches some nice fish. I'm in the process of trying his way. Will let you know how it works. Stay Safe & God Bless!!! 🤠👍