Who started all this scent thing, special formula, salt etc.? Probably Mann bait co. He had blue berry juice worms,black berry juice, plum etc. Have any of you seen a bass eat a plum? No and you never will. Have you ever seen a bass swim up to a worm filled with garlic sniff it like a dog and back off and seem to say not enough garlic does not smell enough might would eat it if it had a little salt added to it? No and you never will. Stink baits are for catfish, bass don't eat dead stinking things. How about special formulas? Take 4 lure companies, 1. My worm is a quality bait. 2 My worm has salt added. 3 My worm has salt and garlic. 4 My worm has salt garlic and special formula. Which one will the customer buy? why number 4 of course. WHY? Its called smoke blowing. It has nothing to do with catching fish, but evertyhing to do with catching people. For the record, there have been millions of bass caught without the scents,the garlic and the special formulas. But the bottom line is: If jack or Jill catch a fish with a worm that has salt in it there is no way on earth you could make them believe that salt had nothing to do with it. The other side of the coin is there is no way to prove or disprove it. Sure they make test in tanks and say it works this way, but the true test is in the wild habitat. Not till someone can put on a pair of bass eyes will we know what really goes on, and that aint't gonna happen.
I myself get caught up in all the hoopla. I use anise sent spray on my worms, but I don't believe in it.
Well hope this cleared up the water a little bit.. mrgeorge
