You can definitely smell the garlic flavor! Haha.

And anise.

I suspect most of the fishy ones smell similar to us. But since fish can smell parts per million in water and smell a hint of the stream they are headed to, I imagine they can detect the differences.

 

Try them on your morning hash browns. You will be able to taste the difference.
Or........
Call Pro Cure and speak with Steve Lynch. He can give you some detailed information as to the nuances of scents.


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Lol...naah...NW has lot better things to offer. Have not had hashbrown for 20 or more so years and no desire either.
I put it out here to see if other folks feel same. If they are here , they can see my post and hop in.

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The Pro Cure trout scent works better than anything else at Diamond Lake. We have tested other and it performed hands down better.

We put it on worms, flies and Power bait caught more fish using Pro Cure than without.

The Mike's shrimp scent works well for winter steelies. Plus you can't go wrong with the name!!

MikeN

 

I have a bottle of sardine and it smells like sardines. My sand shrimp smells like sand shrimp (and I know what they smell like cause I pump em fresh).

As far as how they work...ocean fish never seem to care much as long as your gear doesn’t stink in a bad way. Seldom a change will set you apart. Tributary salmon, especially springers, are very particular. The right scent can really mean the difference between zero fish and a limit. I have seen this many days over many years.

That’s my 2 cents. Take it how you will...

 

I have tried all of them never seems to make any difference to me. the only thing that has made a difference was tuna fish oil out of a can.

 

They said that your lose your sense of smell if you have Covid-19, just kidding, Most of them smell somewhat alike.

 

basically all of the pro-cure products (super gels, bait waxx, water soluble fish oils etc) are made from 100% real bait. On top of that they add in a variety of amino acids which stimulate a feeding response in fish. They also add UV to their products so it is easier for fish to find the lure or bait or whatever you have applied the pro-cure to. I guarantee you that each product is made with the actual bait that is on the label!! I have been in their facility and have watched them making batches of product.

 

Perhaps your sniffer ain't working as well as it used to? I can smell some differences from the Pro Cure line up. I've smelt all that I've used. Im also one of those guys who sniff their own farts, so....

 

BT and shrimp scent smell the same? I can smell the difference between the variants of BT across the boat. Weird issue, get them up to 70+ degrees and try another whiff

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There's very bleak difference between shrimp krill and bloody tuna....not shrimp but shrimp krill.
@Whethole...you are already in my good books. You don't do something which most of em do i.e. deny..it wasn't me..lol.

Anyhoo I still and will use procure (very rarely I use scent)..when desperation start sinking in...sometimes it works..sometimes it don't). I wanted to see if any of those procure guys are here. ....which is surprising.. I mean we have some big names here.

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This raises the issue of what we’re trying to achieve by using scents. In my view, we’re trying to ensure our bait/lure smells like something that is a normal part of the salmon’s diet. I don’t think it matters if your herring smells like shrimp. Or your hootchie smells like tuna. As long as it smells like something salmon will eat, it doesn’t matter.

And human scent is likely a huge repellent, so masking the human scent is likely the most important factor.

For those who disagree with this hypothesis, try to explain why ‘bloody tuna’ is so popular. Tuna (Pacific albacore) are likely a huge predator on juvenile salmon, whenever those two species interact. So it stands to reason that tuna scent would be a natural ‘salmon repellent’, but it’s not. In fact, the folks at Pro-Cure have told me that 'Bloody Tuna' is one of their most popular (i.e., productive) scents. Why is that? In my view, it’s not because it smells like tuna, which it probably does, but because it smells like fish.

And that’s my point.

As for me, whenever I'm fishing saltwater, I just smear everything with herring oil.......

 

Fish where the fish are and catch fish. Hot eggs or not.. ive had to use 3-2-1 eggs filled with sugar and raspberry jello before on the coast bobber fishing and knocked em dead in front of guys that were using procure,ammermans, nates, etc etc. ..

 

I have done that before, right in front of someone. You oughta see what happens when you add some umphff to that recipe!

 

So if I am using scent, regardless of brand, and I change out my stuff to no scent, sometimes my nose keeps smelling scent.


No Joke!


Now get a bottle of the special stuff that used to be readily available at Fishermans called: ULTRABITE by Mustad.


Smell that stuff once in a day and your nose will be absolutely ruined. You go home smelling it in the car. You wake up the next day smelling that stuff.


Seen a guy rub his mustache after getting that stuff on his hands.


That was some funny stuff.


Pro Cure scents use a base. Mikes products use a base. They are different, Smelly Jelly uses a base I believe that is different from both.


Smell this stuff all day in the boat, smell it again, and smell it again. All of it stinks, It will drive your senses off for sure. It does for me, just sayin.


My buddy likes to call it all SNAKE OIL!