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Comment by Slip Sinker on February 3, 2015 at 7:54am

I know that gulp Is soaked in their own attractant and that is a big part of their success. I usually cut them in two or three when I downsize my offerings. I may have hurt that by pinching the pieces that day with my thumb and fingernail. So I pit the attractant on the whole presentation

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on February 3, 2015 at 7:29am

Ah - OK. I thought by "waxies" you meant the Gulp not actual waxworms. 

Comment by Slip Sinker on February 3, 2015 at 7:18am

live waxies in a plastic container that i transferr to a bait puck... the gulp maggots i leave in the jar

Comment by Slip Sinker on February 3, 2015 at 7:17am

the setup i started catching the fish on was the Gulp maggot cut into about thirds and just covered the tip of the hook. the Bait Mate was very thick coming out of the dispenser and i spread it over the whole presentation jig and all

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on February 3, 2015 at 7:09am

Ken - do you get your waxies in the jar or the pouch? I got mine in the jar and I assumed what they are soaking in is attractant. I only have been out once with them and I fished them on a really sparse small jig that would not have held much. Are you putting the Bait Mate of the jig or the waxies?

Comment by Slip Sinker on February 3, 2015 at 7:04am

small scent study from my last trip ...

The insets on this snap are screen dumps from my Elite 4 during the early phase of my trip before adding scent to the presentation. You can clearly see the fish inspecting the presentation which at the time was a micro tungsten jig on 2lb mono and tipped with either Gulp Maggots or waxies. They clearly rejected the offerings until I added the Bait Mate attractant. The action was a flip of a switch. FISH ON!!! i ended up catching about 10 small gills in quick succession. great experience for adding to the learning curve.

Scent attractants are a big part of my game during soft water season it only makes sense to use it  for my ice presentations also… it should because the presentation is stationary and under scrutiny by the targets for longer periods of time.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on February 2, 2015 at 5:07pm

Nice determination John...........

Comment by jim cosgrove on February 2, 2015 at 4:59pm

i agree dick=my local club uses grass carp for weed control.you have to keep a balance tho.they had too many for a while and picked it clean be fore the carp it was unfishable by july.the carp are supposedly sterile.they get big too.the lakes were invaded by beavers a few years ago and really added some structure.it is also a wildlife preserve so they really freaked out as the beavers killed a lot of the trees they were trying to restore.kinda funny how it goes when people try to re balance nature.

Comment by Tony Livingston on February 2, 2015 at 4:31pm

Orchestrated weed control is different than natural weed die off. First ice, there are green weeds still standing which are fish magnets...especially for bluegills. By midwinter ice, the lack of sunlight has caused many of those same weeds to die off...down and brown they call it. They may hold a few fish still, but the concentration of gills is probably over, as the fish head to deeper water and scatter .

That's why I always check the weeds.....it gives me an insight into how far along into the ice season is, and provides a clue as to where to look for the fish.

If the BOW in question has had a planned, weed eradication effort take place, then I would base my efforts on the location of structure adjacent to deeper water.

Comment by dick tabbert on February 2, 2015 at 4:20pm

I'm not a big advocate of weed control at least not the total elimination of all the weeds in the lake. That make's last years fishing haunts poor to nonexistent the following year the spot that took you awhile to get honed in on. Weed = fish that's were the little fish or minnows hang out for cover and the big fish know this and there in there for the smaller fish. It devastates a fishing lake and takes awhile to recuperate. No weeds no or very few fish.

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