Thread: Other lures in Gulp alive juice?

Have any of you put other soft plastics in your Gulp alive juice when you ran out of gulp shrimp? Did it seem to be effective? How would you compare this to Gulp lures in Gulp juice? Any downsides such as discomforting of lures, changes in soft plastic elasticity, etc?

I've seen a couple of people on YouTube who do, they swear by it. Other than that I haven't met anyone that has. I know I'm a big fan of the gulp garlic spray on soft plastics for bass fishing. Always seemed to help my catch ratio although that could be a confidence placebo. It has never seem to hurt though. I may experiment with it myself now that you mention it.

Tackle makers have so much to catch fishermen and some for fish too

I have a fishing buddy who uses nothing but Gulp for walleyes, I have used it, and it works, but not as well as a night crawler, IMHO. I have tried salt water Gulp down here fishing from shore and didn't catch anything but I wasn't catching anything on live shrimp or fidlers either. I tried Gulp on the head boat and all they did was tear the tails off. Fish bites worked somewhat on the head boat but not as well as squid.

On another note, I see guys catching blue crabs on shrimp, are they starting to run now? Does anyone have a trap out?

Originally Posted by jollymon

Tackle makers have so much to catch fishermen and some for fish too

Are you saying you don't think scent works? Tackle makers aren't making any more if you are saving already purchased stuff and reusing it.

Originally Posted by ShallowWaterAngler

Are you saying you don't think scent works? Tackle makers aren't making any more if you are saving already purchased stuff and reusing it.

I'm a septic on scent,fishing and Deer hunting too. Never could say it made a difference IMHO

Originally Posted by jollymon

I'm a septic on scent,fishing and Deer hunting too. Never could say it made a difference IMHO

Well, mostly deer scents are nothing more than urine, or occasionally a cover scent based off earth, acorn, or other animal urines like fox pee. As a trapper, I can say that most deer scents, used in the method they are used, are in effect completely ineffective. But I would ask you to try this test before you say scent doesn't matter with fishing(at least part of the time). Cut a piece of shad up. Remove skin and anything flashy, nothing but a square of meat. Then cut a piece of soft plastic (unscented) in the same shape and size and drop both over the rail and see which one gets more attention. Now I'm not saying scented soft plastics have the same effect as true live bait, but I have seen instances where scent did make a difference.

I'm not saying that scent doesn't work, I'm just not sold on artificial over natural scent.

I use Liquid Mayhem crawfish formula bass fishing, I believe it is actually made from ground up crawfish. I believe scents work, haven't done studies to prove it, but I'm confident that it does. I will say this, fishing down here last fall and seeing how the fish flat tore up Gulp baits and then catching fish including Spanish Mackerel on a 3/4 in strip of Fish bites on a plain jighead pretty much sealed the scent issue for me. I was coming down 2 weeks ago to fish but the cold weather stopped me, I had some baits soaking in Gulp juice to try. Just sayin.

scent and especially the awareness of a fish's line shyness have been two things that i've found to be an important part of a successful day fishing/catching.