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New Hampshire => Ice Fishing New Hampshire => Topic started by: Steamtrain on Feb 19, 2024, 09:23 PM
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Anyone have any luck with with giving live shiners some “artificial " smelt scent?
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Not to be too obvious, but why not just use smelt?
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Availability, price, mortality
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Not shiners but plastics. Stopped using it after a while, saw no difference in catch rates.
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Not shiners but plastics. Stopped using it after a while, saw no difference in catch rates.
Good enough science for me, sounds like not worth the hassle
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I ran out one day and just kept on trucking without it.
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I used Smelt -Rite one year at a fish tourney on shiners. All my friends laughed at me until I won the tourney with the largest pike.
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Pike will eat anything, do they count?
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Pike will eat anything, do they count?
My buddies traps/shiners surrounded set-up that day but Mr. Pike ate my shiner loaded with Smelt-Rite ??