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This is why many companies have scented or salted products made to help prevent this problem, but even these can get contaminated...Here's a money saving tip for you; if you buy the expensive formulated baits that can get contaminated from something on your hands, why not buy the inexpensive
"more for the buck" plastics and just put formula on them? You will get the same results!!!The next question we'll cover is which formula to purchase.. To this
question I really can't tell you exactly which company product to buy because there are so many different manufacturers of fish formulas on the market and most of them are all very compatible and work great, but I can tell you from experience that the natural scents work the best. I always use a Crawfish formula for plastics and jig & pig combos, Shad Oil (or scent) for actions baits such as spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, crankbaits, and top water baits, and a Garlic scent when things slow down from the Crawfish scented baits. Here's a point you may want to remember... a Crawfish is ALWAYS!, ALWAYS!, the number one food source of a bass, even over baitfish!Now that we've went over some of the "Pros" of formulas, let's eliminate
some of the "Cons" that can really bother anglers when applying formulas to artificial baits, and this goes for fresh water as well as salt water baits. For over the past 25 years up to approximinately 4 years ago, I've tried just about every applicator that can be used for applying fish formulas. I've tried the spray on types that just sprayed formula over everything when it was windy (which usually is 80% of the time. I've tried the dip tubs, where you pour the formula into a little tub and dip your baits into it, but found myself dripping formula all over my boat. I have even tried just pouring formula on my baits right out of the container just to find that I was pouring most of it into the water (when it missed my boat carpet.)I got so frustrated at times because of problems with formulas gumming up on my boat when dripping on it (especially the pain of using a scouring pad on my boat to clean it off), ruining my boat carpets (when my students, charter clients, as well as myself spilling formula on the carpet), and just flat pouring more money (formula) into the water than I was getting on my baits. I literally must have gone through at least 7 or 8 containers of formula per season, and you know how costly that can be. Then finally over the years I discovered a method of using the formula like a hand lotion which I even wrote a article a few years back on "Fish Attractants" that mentioned this method of just rubbing formula onto your hands so that anything you touch while fishing artificial baits, the formula would rub off on the bait as to eliminate contamination (the ole cover-up!)
Now, the good news!, just shortly after I had authored the "Fish Attractants" article that was nationally exposed I received a email from a fellow angler by the name of Darryl who was also a avid bass angler. Darryl had asked me after reading my article I wrote about the attractants if I had ever heard of a product called the Scentbox (which he had invented), and I replied back to him and said that I never heard of the Scentbox or ever seen anything like it (after looking at it on his website), so he said that he would send me one to try and for me to let him know how I liked it.
Now, I can say without hesitation that I have came across many different products related to angling (some good and some bad) over my career, but this product (the Scentbox) became a part of my life. If I had to describe how valuable this product can be to an angler (whether fresh water or salt water angling) and how important of a tool it can be, it would be like a carpenter needing a hammer for his work. I have used the Scentbox every time I have been in my boat since it was introduced to me over four years ago, I won't be without it because of many different reasons:
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