Dips, Sprays, & sauces do they work?

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IAN FISHERMAN

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Dips, Sprays, & sauces do they work?

I have seen a couple of different sprays and dips on the market, I was wondering if they are a novelty item or are they essential. I use soft baits at the moment without any scent, salt or dip. Has anyone had any more success, after scenting soft baits than without scent.

Please your comments guys.
 
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DWB

Sealiner
Howzit IAN, Welcome to sealine!

Scents are there to let the fish hold on to your bait longer, not to make them eat it.

So on plastics it will help a bit.

Will look for a recent thread on this right now
 
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Johanvc

Sealiner
As Deon said it does let the fish hold on longer. But it does more than that. Cents and dips are a must in any bass Fishermans arsenal. It also allows the fish to see the bait hence the different colours you get. Out of my own experience and what I have heard from a lot of pro’s you encounter days where the fish does not want to eat NO matter what you put in front of them.
I experienced this on RDW one comp and all we needed to do was dip our watermelon flukes tail in some Blue spike it and we could get them to bite.
The same happened on Middelburg dam where green pumpkin senko’s with a bit of chartreuse spike it on the tail gave me a bag over 6kg’s and a fish of 3.365kg
The same happened at last year’s inanda classic where they also wanted a bit of spike it on the baits which gave us 9th place in bag with only 9 fish and gave me 9th biggest fish for the classic.
So basically if fish are not holding on or committing to a bait I would use some bang garlic spray to get them to take the bait so that I can get a hook set. If nothing works I will start dipping my baits to try and get the fish to take the lure
 
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DWB

Sealiner
Anyone used the new Berkley Gulp Alive Garlic spray yet?
Got me a bottle, but no success this far....
 
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IAN FISHERMAN

New member
Well what I have gathered from the comments, is that scented baits are better, and that garlic isn't the best scent to use.

guess I got to get me some.

Dammit the spending never ends!

Adds to fun I guess!
 
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IAN FISHERMAN

New member
(As far as garlic goes, according to the book, Knowing Bass, A Scientific Approach by Keith Jones, garlic rates fairly low (2%) on the bass's response to flavours while worm extract rates the highest at 100%.) Quote from Vaalboy101 on the link

http://www.sealine.co.za/view_topic.php?id=1186&forum_id=32 thread.

Suppose I will have to try for myself.

thanks for the tips!
 
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IAN FISHERMAN

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Salesman must love us fisherman? easy targets. We would try anything that is said to work. LOL Experimentation is the key here it seems.
 
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