Lure scents
Lure scents
Hey lads, prepping for another trip and just stumbled across lure scents. Anyone use em for trout? or are they a waste of money?
- Sebb
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Re: Lure scents
Never used it for trouts but worth a try, those scents aren't that expensive anyway and you only need a bit on.
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- Truedogz
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Re: Lure scents
With the smaller soft plastics produced by Strike Tiger I always add their scents. Scents can provide several benefits such as masking undesirable odors such as sunscreen or cigarette tar, can provide a scent trail, induce a bite and some fluoresce in uv light making the lure more visible/attractive to fish.
With larger lures worked faster they are probably of muck less benefit. I have sprayed the inside of my lure boxes with a scent so at least any human or artificial smells are masked. I also rub some on my surface lures now and then.
There are several recipes on the net for making scents. You need a base of some sort like vaseline, copha or an oil and the material to create the odor. There are a lot of proprietary recipes out there containing 'secret amino acids' or peptides. While I have used S Factor on hardbody lures I have made my own. One of the simplest and best bite stimulators is naturally fermented fish sauce. It contains a lot of salt and broken down proteins which the evidence suggests stimulate fish. The Strike Tiger scent smells like it has garlic in it.
Best Wishes
Truedogz
With larger lures worked faster they are probably of muck less benefit. I have sprayed the inside of my lure boxes with a scent so at least any human or artificial smells are masked. I also rub some on my surface lures now and then.
There are several recipes on the net for making scents. You need a base of some sort like vaseline, copha or an oil and the material to create the odor. There are a lot of proprietary recipes out there containing 'secret amino acids' or peptides. While I have used S Factor on hardbody lures I have made my own. One of the simplest and best bite stimulators is naturally fermented fish sauce. It contains a lot of salt and broken down proteins which the evidence suggests stimulate fish. The Strike Tiger scent smells like it has garlic in it.
Best Wishes
Truedogz
- croe04
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Re: Lure scents
What scents do you guys like the best? I've used pro-cure, megastrike and berkley gulp and for me personally pro cure blows both of them out of the water (pun intended), but i hear people raving about sax scent and squidgies as well. Also what flavours? Squid does pretty well for me
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Re: Lure scents
use scents all the time i,m mainly a lure fisho tryed dizzy scents no luck at all 4 different types .Sfactor damm works would be the go to pick sax scents work well wasabi and crab is only the one,s i tryed procure as well is good for some bloody reason garlic plus work,s well freshwater and saltwater this stuff has a very strong smell the procure sardine and pilchard work,s okay
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Re: Lure scents
For those that do use scents, how often do you apply it to the lure (assuming you keep the same lure on for a while)?
Cheers
Jim
Cheers
Jim
Last edited by April Fool on Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- croe04
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Re: Lure scents
Pro-cure advertises it lasts up to 45 minutes but I usually go with 15-20 minutes. Scents also seem to work well on bait too.April Fool wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 7:43 pmFor those that do use scents, how often do you apply it too the lure (assuming you keep the same lure on for a while)?
Cheers
Jim