Spray on fishing scents can also improve your fishing luck

Spray on fishing scents can improve your luck

There are a ton of spray on scents out there and most of them I haven't tested because there are just to many. There are scents that smell like crawfish, the old standby anise and a ton of others that smell like something that lives in the water that fish eat.

There are scents formulated exclusively for bass, perch, walleyes, crappies, bluegills, northerns, catfish and other types of fish. Within those categories are a ton of different manufacturers saying their spray on is the best.

This was a pretty easy test for me as when I tested these types of scents there weren't that many around. Berkley fishing made a few back then, the anise stuff was around WD 40 and Dr. Juice. Thankfully I had tested the anise scented liquids over the years and the same with the WD 40.

That made it pretty much the Berkley products against the Dr. Juice products. Once again these are supposedly formulated for different species so I tried the northern, walleyes and panfish scents as that's mostly what I fished for anyway. I only got one surprise out of all of them.

Now remember this is only my testing and my opinions. According to scientific protocols they probably weren't very well done tests but would be considered anecdotal evidence at best. I don't care what they call them, when you are fishing two rods, have scent on one bait and not on the other and you are using the exact same setup and bait on each rod supposedly the one with the scent should outfish the unscented.

My experience says that doesn't happen all that often except in certain cases and under certain conditions. Oh, I caught a few more fish but unfortunately they weren't the fish I was fishing for. Bullheads and eelpout aren't desirable fish to catch as far as I'm concerned. ;)

Using the Berkley Strike I never noticed any difference at all with one small exception, the anise caught more bullheads than anything else, the WD 40 worked a little bit and with one exception the Dr. Juice worked a little bit. Once again all were fished in the same manner. Nothing seemed to improve my catches of panfish, not even once.

The two notable exceptions were for walleyes and northerns. Remember, I don't fish bass hardly at all and never enough to have tested any scents on bass. Well, I accidentally made a bass discovery one day but that was an accident and bass weren't what I was fishing for. I'll tell you about that a bit later in this series of articles.

Walleye scent, when I used it in the summer time, caught me more bullheads than it did extra walleyes and the same with the northern scent. Lol, even carp like lures with walleye scent on in the summer time. Carp are another species I don't intentionally fish for. I will say they do fight pretty well and are fun when they do put up a good fight.

The one thing I did lean with all the walleye and northern scents was they seemed to work better in cold water conditions than they did in warm water in the middle of summer.

Walleyes, northerns and Berkley fishing strike vs Dr. Juice > >

Spray on fishing scents can improve your luck

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