Scents and attractants

[wish4fish]

I have never used them, but with the sonar i see all the fish that turn their nose up at my presentation. Anyone have an opinion?

[Wind Flag]

I put a few drops of smelt oil on the sucker fillet that I put on my pimple. Since I started doing that this year, my laker success has gone up 5 to 1. I've also changed some techniques, but nothing major.

[oletimer]

Hmmm, first can you tell me what sonar you have??? Please!! I would love to be able to see a fishes nose turn up while fishing...   Is this a LCD unit or a flasher type Must kind of look like a horror movie if it is a flasher unit, with the mouth open and ready to pounce. Then flash the face and they turn off and swim away....
Don't use much in the way of attractants but from what I read a lot on these pages WD-40 is the next best thing since being a native American.....
 
For those that read quickly and click reply quicker..was a joke...lighten up on this dang website.
 
Serious side of things, I have used a smelt juice attractant in the past that seemed to increase bites.
Was mostly fishing for trout, but seems it would work for perch or other predator fish.

[33Canuck]

Where do you guys get smelt juice or oil?

[bcons]

Where do you guys get smelt juice or oil?

From smelt 
Fish 307 has some.

[bunnyasassyn]

i got a jug of that gulp alive spray an thats been workin pretty good for me especiall durin a tough bite.

[drowndin dots]

     i like vasoline , followed by wd 40 then i hit it with the gas for my auger 

[Cusefan78]

I drink a twelve pack of schiltz and pee down the hole and that usually draws in some slobs. Also I have heard that ruffies work really well. let's try to keep this between me and you, I wouldn't want this posted all over the Internet.

[bcons]

I drink a twelve pack of schiltz and pee down the hole and that usually draws in some slobs. Also I have heard that ruffies work really well. let's try to keep this between me and you, I wouldn't want this posted all over the Internet.

That how you won king of the pond? The perch were to whacked out, passed out then floated up through your hole? 

[RIVERRAT2]

scents work for me, oatmeal as attractant[under 10 ft of water
 
rat

[Cusefan78]

Bcon all that works but a stick of dynamite works best. Just make sure you wear a pancho.

[wish4fish]

How about chumming with dog food for lakers, another fishermans urban myth?  wd-40 with some dog food sounds good then a couple drops of smelt oil; limit every time. 

[GAMBELL]

I use Lunker lotion, Smelly Jelly or Gulp spray. 

[saquelie]

tobbaco juice winter green lol

[adam2000]

     i like vasoline , followed by wd 40 then i hit it with the gas for my auger 

thats what i do too dots, shhhhh thats a old school oneida secret

[JAGER61]

Berkley Powerbait (Trout)

[gomaco1]

a fish oil pill works wonders

[Fatman]

I am probably going to catch hell for posting this but here it goes.  Years and years ago an older gentleman use to take a whole deer carcass and drop in into one of his holes.  He would wait a week or two and then come back and jig for lake trout.  Well needless to say he would always land 10 + pound lake trout.  Now I am not saying to go try this but I found it interesting and never forgot it.  For the sake of argument I personally would never attempt this these days.

[RIVERRAT2]

I am probably going to catch hell for posting this but here it goes.  Years and years ago an older gentleman use to take a whole deer carcass and drop in into one of his holes.  He would wait a week or two and then come back and jig for lake trout.  Well needless to say he would always land 10 + pound lake trout.  Now I am not saying to go try this but I found it interesting and never forgot it.  For the sake of argument I personally would never attempt this these days.

--any type of waste will  attract fish back in the 70's some of the bays in mass. that had waste pipes going
out in the bay you could get fish a day at the end of the pipe or some had holes in the pipe[you would see the water
boil]
 
rat

[slr120]

iv used some different types of fish spray and found the ones with the uv enhancer in them have worked the best.

[Hardwaternubie53]

go to Pro Cure.com. Their scents work great!

[5watchman5]

Had a thought this weekend.  Take a pimple and superglue a piece of some kind of fabric or wool (maybe even red to look like blood) and soak it with Smelt oil.  That way there, your action isn't affected and the scent stays on the lure.  And the more you use it, the stankier it gets.  Haven't thought about where to store the lure when I'm done for the day though.

[reelcharacter]

I presume you mean the vitamine store type?

How do you use it?

- RC

a fish oil pill works wonders

[rufishn2]

salmon eggs oil