Is "YUM" bait as good as its made out to be?

[elnutsmalljaws]

Any bait is great if you have confidence in it. I you don't beleive in the bait you are throwing you are wasting your time!!

Absolutely!!!!

Take a Stick Bait, Brush Hound, Ribbon tail worm or any other plastic and you will find a ton of different companies putting their name on them. Several actually come from the same mould. Line up the 50 - 100 different brands and my bet is you find very little difference in size and shape. Some injected with scent, salt, coffee, and who knows what and even then my bet is you will find several that look the same, smell the same and have the same action. But tie one on and catch a 5 pounder and even though you have several that look, smell and act alike, your confidence level will go thru the roof when you know that BRAND is tied on. You will pay more attention to detail, more attention to how you are working it, more attention to the bite when it comes, all of this add up to more fish being caught. I refuse to use some hand tied FNF jigs that some of my buddies have given me to try just for the shear fact that Punisher Jigs have done me well and I have a ton of confidence in them. I feel every cast that I don't make with them is a cast that I may miss a 5 pounder. Just me but it is a confidence thing

[bplgocards]

I love gary yamamoto senkos... nothing seems to catch fish quite as well as they do.

[12VoltMan]

I just bought two bottles of the Yum F2 spray attractent (shad & crawfish) a couple of weeks ago to fish a tournament. I can't say it helped me do well, but then I can't say it didn't either. I usualy use the Bang carlic, but I thought I'd try something new. Si the jury is still out on the F2. It's about $9 for an 8oz. bottle. The sprayer seems to spurt a lot out each time, so I'm not sure how long each bottle will last.

[artcarney_agr]

I just bought two bottles of the Yum F2 spray attractent (shad & crawfish) a couple of weeks ago to fish a tournament. I can't say it helped me do well, but then I can't say it didn't either. I usualy use the Bang carlic, but I thought I'd try something new.

I don't think it really matters what flavor the spray is, as long as it's something natural. A bait with a naturally occurring odor should get more strikes by masking the human odor you leave on it when handling the bait. They are labeled as "attractants", but I think "cover scent" would be more appropriate.

I've heard of many using regular old WD-40 before as a cover scent. It's an urban legend, claiming that it works due to it containing fish oil. I haven't ever tried it though.

[Duayne]

I don't think it really matters what flavor the spray is, as long as it's something natural. A bait with a naturally occurring odor should get more strikes by masking the human odor you leave on it when handling the bait. They are labeled as "attractants", but I think "cover scent" would be more appropriate.

I've heard of many using regular old WD-40 before as a cover scent. It's an urban legend, claiming that it works due to it containing fish oil. I haven't ever tried it though.

I used WD 40 on my bucktails when down rigging. I know for a fact that I get a lot more strikes when I first put the balls down versus after. I just started using the Gulp Alive shad and soaking my trailers in it when casting. Last time down I got 7 stripers casting when the water cooled and hardly anyone was getting them even with live bait. I'll be trying the Gulp Alive Shad when down rigging season comes around for sure.

The concept is the same. Provide an oil/scent trail for the fish to home in on. Fish are more likely to hit with the more of their senses that says food.