Coffee for scent

[stoner]

I saw where a company is coming out with coffee scented soft plastics, This would not be hard to do. My question is where is the connection?
Stoner

[rustedhook]

I saw where a company is coming out with coffee scented soft plastics, This would not be hard to do. My question is where is the connection?
Stoner

It works (maybe). I put some fresh grounds out of the can in a bag of green pumpkin trick worms and let them set overnight. Rigged one on a shakey head and caught a 3 pounder on the first cast out of a pond, but that was the only one I caught on it. I'll stick with garlic.

rustedhook

[Col Forbin]

The October FLW magazine has a little blurb about this. Strike King is putting out a line of tubes with coffee scent. At least it will smell better than other scents.

[biggw]

Coffee scent thats funny--most of the time i don,t a give a fish time to taste anything-Bam in the boat he comes lol

[DogFood]

Can you imagine a big smallie with a caffeine high?

[DJD]

I don't think there is a connection my thought is that they will try anything once because you never know what will be the next big thing.

[birdstrike]

What's next? Double moca chia tea latte?

[crappiepappy]

I don't think there is a connection my thought is that they will try anything once because you never know what will be the next big thing.

My thoughts exactly !! Brings back memories of "Scuppernong Jellyworms" (and all the other "flavors" that had no connection to fish food).

It's the company's job to make a bait that catches anglers .... it then "our" job to make the bait catch fish .... LOL!!

(and Birdstrike ... that's only good for Carp ... LOL !! (j/k) )

... cp

[Redskeeter]

Here's the story from ESPN.com.
Troy Gibson of Strike King Lures has been fishing since he was old enough to walk. And as a lure designer, he always pays attention to the forage fish in a particular body of water. Two years ago, Gibson competed in a Bassmaster Central Open on Texas' Lake Sam Rayburn. At the end of the day, while his co-angler went to get his vehicle and back the boat trailer in the water, Gibson ate a package of crackers and sipped the last cup of coffee from his thermos.

Gibson tossed some cracker crumbs in the water, so he could observe the sunfish that gathered to eat them. When he realized the last of his coffee was filled with grounds, he tossed it in the water on the other side of his boat.

"The bream left the crackers to go to the coffee grounds," said Gibson. "Then it turned into a feeding frenzy. Instead of just a few fish, it turned into 15 or 20. They looked like piranhas chewing those coffee grounds."

So Gibson thought about integrating a natural element, coffee, into the soft plastic process of manufacturing tube lures. The result is Strike King's new Coffee Tubes, which are coffee and salt impregnated.

Subsequent field tests on the lure have been so successful that Wednesday Gibson was predicting his creation would help some pro angler win the next Bassmaster Elite Series event, which concludes Sunday on Lake Erie.

[riverrat12]

Years ago I used to add coffee grinds to my night crawler box and they would feast....But if you feed them to much they would break real easy. and there insides do resemble coffee grinds thats the only coffee relationship I've had...good to the last pop

[Danny]

Years ago I used to add coffee grinds to my night crawler box and they would feast....But if you feed them to much they would break real easy. and there insides do resemble coffee grinds thats the only coffee relationship I've had...good to the last pop

Riverrat, that is exactly what I thought. When I was a kid, me and another guy used to dig worms and sell them to the bait stores. We found our worms would stay healthier if we put coffe grounds in our dirt. We also did this for the ones we were using ourselves.

That said, I loved the story redskeeter passed along as well. That would certainly explain why someone may have decided that was the reason to make a particular scent.

Danny