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Often people take advantage of the olfactory system of the bass when trying to attract more fish to the end of their line. There are actually some known scents that the bass really enjoy. The main scents or tastes that attract bass include: garlic, salt, and anise plus several other spices.

A bass is equipped to determine whether a scent is “negative” or “positive” and will behave appropriately once that is determined. 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 are equipped with 2 nostrils on both sides of their head. One set are called the anterior nostrils and the other set are called the posterior nostrils. 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. With that being said, bass will actually keep a hold of 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. Among the major attractant manufacturer with products on the market today you have Basswax, Berkley, MegaStrike, Liquid Lure, 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. The wax stays on the lures or plastic baits much longer and there is no concern for drips and spills. Basswax is the manufacturer I purchase from for the beeswax product.

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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).

Filed under: Recreation and Sports on November 14th, 2009