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Scents
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| Written by h2o |
| I believe in scents for several reasons.
#1. Gives me confidence.
#2. Fish smell alot better than people.
#3. Puts a slime coating on bait.
#4. Masks foul odors.
#5. Could trigger a strike on a follow.
#6 Puts a scent in the water column.
Ever seen that fish follow your bait to the boat and turn away? I've noticed it alot. Putting scent on the bait could help him attack.
Give it a try and see if you see a differance in your catch ratio.
I like Yum Crawfish for bass, but any scent is better than no scent in my opioion.
Put it on about every 10-15 casts, if you can use a dropper bottle to make it last longer, it doesn't take alot and don't waste it.
What do you think about scents and which ones do you use?
Basic Anatomy. Rather than talking in terms of scents, smells, or tastes, another way to understand fish attractants is in terms of the molecules they contain and what response those molecules are supposed to trigger in a bass nose, mouth and therefore the bass brain. So let's start by looking up the nose of a bass. Bass have left and right nostrils just above their mouths. There are two openings in each nostril - a separate entrance and exit hole for water-borne scents to flow right through. Some studies have also suggested that bass have scent and taste receptors inside and even outside their mouths. Regardless of where they are located, each receptor cell resembles a tiny pit or cavity, each with its own little pathway leading to the brain. Receptor cells come in all different sizes and types. Some are triggered only by scents, others in and around the mouth are triggered only by tastes. Some receptor cells are only triggered by molecules of odorless, tasteless chemicals such as sex hormones during mating, or fear or shock pheromones given off by frightened or injured creatures. A spawning male's milt cells even have such receptors on it, and use them to detect and swim towards chemicals emitted into the water by the female's eggs, thereby finding and fertilizing them. In the nose or mouth, the receptor cells only send scent messages to the brain if the correct size and type of water-borne molecule fits correctly into the receptor cell cavity. If a scent molecule is not the right size or type to fit properly into a particular receptor cell cavity, then no message gets fired to the brain. Using a pass/fail kind of approach, let's assume for this article that a bass will take either positive or negative actions based on how its brain interprets the messages that the receptor cells are firing at it about the molecules being detected on your lures. (Quote)
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