Do Attractants Really Help You Catch More Bass?
Often people take advantage of the olfactory system of the bass when trying to attract more fish to the end of their line. There are actually some known scents that the bass really enjoy. The main scents or tastes that attract bass include: garlic, salt, and anise plus several other spices.
The bass can actually distinguish between “positive” scents and “negative” scents. So of course, the companies who make fish attractants choose the positive smells to mimic their products after. Among the negative scents that the bass will avoid include gasoline or other strong odors transferred from your fingers and blood from a wounded schoolmate.
Bass have two nostrils on each side. One set of nostrils being the posterior and the other set being the anterior. While the fish is swimming, water flows out of the posterior nostrils after passing through the anterior nostrils and over the olfactory glands. This amazing olfactory system of the bass can actually detect 1 200th of a drop of a substance in approximately 100 gallons of water. For this reason alone, anglers suggest washing your hands before fishing and applying some sort of attractant to your bait, whether it is sprayed on or it is already impregnated into the lure.
Although it is an important factor when bass fishing, scent is not on top of the list like it is with other fish like carp and catfish. Bass are known to hang onto a bait up to 30 seconds longer when a positive scent is present.
Lots of tackle and bait shops carry different attractant products as well as bass lures that already have a scent attached. The list of the top manufacturers for attractants include: Berkley, Basswax, Liquid Lure, Mega Strike, Mr. Goop, Dr. Juice and plenty more.
A great choice of attractant that I like to use are products containing a beeswax base in a tube like chap stick. The wax stays on the lures or plastic baits much longer and there is no concern for drips and spills. I usually get my beeswax attractants from the company BassWax.
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Bass Fishing As Defined On Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_fishing
Bass fishing is the activity of angling for the North American gamefish known colloquially as the black bass. There are numerous black bass species considered as gamefish in North America, including largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui), Spotted bass or Kentucky bass (Micropterus punctatus), Guadalupe bass (Micropterus treculii), and many other species and subspecies of the genus Micropterus. Though referred to as bass, all are actually members of the sunfish family (Centrarchidae: order Perciformes).
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November 26 2009 03:25 pm | News
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