Can You Catch More Bass With Attractants?
It is not uncommon for anglers to exploit the olfactory system of the fish when trying to get a leg up in fishing. There are actually some known scents that the bass really enjoy. Of the scents that bass enjoy you have: salt, garlic, anise and a bunch of other spices.
The bass can actually distinguish between “positive” scents and “negative” scents. Manufacturers of fish attractant products locked in on the main positive scents and created products to smell just like them. 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. Approximately 1 200th of a drop of a substance per 100 gallons of water can be detected by the amazing olfactory system of the bass. This is the very reason that a lot of anglers will clean their hands before they begin fishing, ridding them of any strong odors. Additionally, it is the reason that they will add attractants to their lures.
Scent is not exactly the major factor in foraging for bass like it is with catfish, salmon and carp, but it does play an important role. Bass are known to hang onto a bait up to 30 seconds longer when a positive scent is present.
Plenty of bait and tackle shops carry various fish attractant products. They also have plenty of bass lures that have already been scented. The list of the top manufacturers for attractants include: Berkley, Basswax, Liquid Lure, Mega Strike, Mr. Goop, Dr. Juice and plenty more.
One of my favorite attractants isn’t a spray like most are, it is in a tube like chap stick and contains beeswax. Being that it is waxy, rather than liquid, it stays on the lure longer and there are no spills to worry about. 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).
Posted: November 15th, 2009 under Recreation.
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