Mike's UV Super Scent vs Glo Scent vs UV Gel Scent
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DuckDogTitus
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I'd like to see people's take on this as well. sometimes i feel like I'm just shopping different forms of black magic.
starcrafttom
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I will give it a shot.
first glow is not uv . glow is charged by sunlight and then actively glows in the dark. Its really a old technology now that we have UV products.
UV can be seen by the fish in that wave length when that uv wave length reflects off of it. It is not stored enegry the way Glow is. It will not wear off or run out of energy.
Uv requires the uv rays from the sun to hit it while under water, which it can penetrate to ( 200 to 2 ft depending on who on the net you believe) 200 ft. I have been using uv lures and flashers not uv gels as they wash off. Use uv lures and then what every smell you want.
scents are important because you want to cover up your smell and leave a trail for the fish to follow. Growing up we sprayed every thing wd40 and it worked great.
Oh a lot of your older flashers and lures are already uv but where never marketed that way. It was just the paint they were using. John at Johns sporting goods has always promoted the red racer flasher even before the uv craze. I looked at all my lures one day with a uv flash light and the old red racer flasher and some of my best spoons were really bright uv. You can get a uv flash light if you look for one.
first glow is not uv . glow is charged by sunlight and then actively glows in the dark. Its really a old technology now that we have UV products.
UV can be seen by the fish in that wave length when that uv wave length reflects off of it. It is not stored enegry the way Glow is. It will not wear off or run out of energy.
Uv requires the uv rays from the sun to hit it while under water, which it can penetrate to ( 200 to 2 ft depending on who on the net you believe) 200 ft. I have been using uv lures and flashers not uv gels as they wash off. Use uv lures and then what every smell you want.
scents are important because you want to cover up your smell and leave a trail for the fish to follow. Growing up we sprayed every thing wd40 and it worked great.
Oh a lot of your older flashers and lures are already uv but where never marketed that way. It was just the paint they were using. John at Johns sporting goods has always promoted the red racer flasher even before the uv craze. I looked at all my lures one day with a uv flash light and the old red racer flasher and some of my best spoons were really bright uv. You can get a uv flash light if you look for one.
You are, for the most part. :wink:DuckDogTitus":2nr5qj1n said:
They all do essentially the same thing: mask human scent. However, the gel vs. the oil can be used in different applications. For instance, the gel is better for sticking to the back of a spoon or stuffed inside a hootchie, where the oil can be injected into a herring or anchovie for a better scent trail.
Also, if you brine your herring prior to the fishing trip, a squirt or two of oil in the brine never hurts.
starcrafttom
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Dawg covered the gel vs oil part very well. One trick I have been using is oil absorbent pads. They type you use in picking oil out of water. You only need one for a season of fishing. I cut them into small strips and soak them in what every oil i am using that day. they hold 100 times there weight in oil and do not hold water. I use then on the hooks of my lures just like you would a bait strip. They last for hours. I keep a bowl of them on the boat and use them as I need to. They are also great in side the Brads cut plug herring.
DuckDogTitus
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so personally, I'm OK with any extra step that results in more fish. But for those of you that have caught a lot of salmon (I have not had the best success) what is THE best solution? to me, a hootchie covered in nasty scent seems second rate. a nice cut plug herring seems best. is that not the case?
I can catch lake fish all day on any lure, but you add a worm to the tip and it seems like success increases no matter where or what you're fishing. so it just seems like you should be able to put all the gimmicks aside and run real food (herring) the best...?
I can catch lake fish all day on any lure, but you add a worm to the tip and it seems like success increases no matter where or what you're fishing. so it just seems like you should be able to put all the gimmicks aside and run real food (herring) the best...?
If there was one best solution, the fishing lure industry would collapse.DuckDogTitus":3mueqg50 said:
What's the difference between adding "nasty scent" to a hootiche vs. man-handling a smelly plug cut herring?
Personally, I don't plug cut herring; I use helmets to prolong the usefulness of my bait. I feel that to be a good steward of the resource, I should do what I can to limit the amount of bait (salmon's food source) I use. Even when brined to toughen them up, plug cut herring won't last long when trolled. But when using a helmet I can troll the same bait for hours. I just add scent now and then. I take the sniper approach: one shot, one kill = one herring, one salmon. 8)
Over all I only use bait about 25% of the time, and that's usually mostly in the early season when the water is coolest. As the water temperature rises and the fish become more aggressive, I use more hardware. I troll hootchies behind a flasher (Q-Cove break-away) on a shorter leader to give them action, or spoons on a longer leader because they have their own inherent action.
Lures come in different sizes and actions because forage fish come in different sizes and species. After boating the first fish, open up the stomach and see what size and species the fish are targeting; then you'll know what lure or bait to drag around.
If it were easy, they'd call it catching, not fishing.
