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musky punch![]() |
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while i have no experience with lure making, i am very interested in it. i sometimes tinker with my own baits - for instance, i added a trailer hook and a 5 inch hollow bellied minnow swimbait to the main hook of a spinnerbait while pike fishing.. nothing was really biting until this. flash from the blades, as well as skirt and paddling tail caught fish. ive been thinking about scent and how muskies/pike may or may not be affected by this. obviously if you have gas on your hands and touch lures - youre not going to catch as many fish. you're setting yourself up to fail. this might be the case for other human scent we dont realize. im also trying to figure out what scent may a muskie be most attracted too. this may be very dumb but what about fish oil. If it works, I've come up with the idea of making a bucktail that has a capsol area to place a cheap fish oil pill in it. the plan would be to poke a hole in it and slowly let the scent/oil out while reeling in, with the addition of salt, this could potentially mask all external scent that musky would be against. ive read musky are sight predators but this just may be something that ups the odds. i'm going to try this with the hollow bellied attachment spinner bait i ''made'' by just simply placing the pill in the belly of it along with some salt. i may be crazy, iknow. if anyone else has experience with different scents (purchased or homemade) and.or super weird/non traditional baits (purchased or homemade) - please share or send me a message my user name is musky punch, was too lazy to login haha - | |||
Kuhly![]() |
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Posts: 96 Location: Eau Claire | I read a study a few years ago in outdoor life, or field and stream, or something like that that showed how fish reacted to different scents when added to baits. Human sweat was the number one scent that fish were attracted to. I'll see if i can find the study. As to your fish oil question I found this in while looking for the scent study article. http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/bass/2009/02/tip-day-add-scent-... | ||
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Posts: 1504 Location: Oregon | I fish alot for salmon and steelhead. A few of the scents we commonly use are Garlic, Anise, herring, sardine, shrimp, egg-scent, and WD40. No idea what might work for pike, you might try anise, if nothing else it smells good! Jed Edited by RiverMan 6/9/2010 12:52 AM | ||
Conservation Guy![]() |
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Posts: 109 | Great to hear your ambition, but I don't know how important scent is to musky when compared to their other senses (feel, or sound and sight). About a decade ago a company was selling bucktails with scent pads and even sold some scent for the pads, but they went under within a couple of years - I think it was LandOlakes tackle company. Good luck to you whatever you try. -Conservation Guy | ||
Musky Punch![]() |
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Location: 412 | yes, not only scent, i'd like to come up with some sort of crazy bait that has vibration (possibly through blades or other means) , mimics a dead fish, may or may not have sound, super flashy.. no idea just yet | ||
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Posts: 994 Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | More than a year ago I worked for a company called fish formula. They had a ocean scent that they always put in our boxes to introduce us to the full product line. I tried it in fresh water just to see what the bass thought of it. I caught pike after pike. It wasn't a scientific testing and I didn't change up to see if a different scent would make a difference or not. The other guy in my boat did not use it at all and he was catching a bass here & there. See PM on other topic | ||
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