Category: Berkley
Ike, KVD, Cranks, Colors
Gonna hit four things here. 1. You’ve probably heard the well-known saying in the fishing biz, that baits are made to “catch fishermen, not fish.” In other words, if it doesn’t catch your eye in the store, you’re not bringing it home, regardless of whether it catches ‘em or not. 2. Bearing that in mind, [...]
Who Needs a Smelly Package?
[Update 10/13: This contest is officially over. Someone remind me to announce the winners in a couple weeks.] Well, I ran with your collective recommendation for 10″ worms, got in touch with the good folks at Berkley and they came through. UPS man brought a few boxes of stinky 10″ and 12″ Power Worms the [...]
Scent Wars
How much stock do you put in stink? Scents and scented baits are nothing new in the bass world, but the science of scent has been at the forefront of soft-plastics innovation over the past few years with the development of proprietary formulas like Berkley’s Gulp! and Gulp! Alive!, Rapala’s Trigger X, YUM’s F2 and [...]
Science: The Bass Who Eats Last Goes Hungry
If you can’t run with the big dogs, then stay on the porch. It’s survival of the fittest, a ‘dog eat dog’ world out there. Eat or be eaten. Have I overdone the cliches yet, and what’s my point? Sometimes life demands a little consideration of both factors, especially if you’re a tiny LMB (age [...]
Berkley Gulp! = Meat, Taters, Spices
Berkely Gulp! is magic. Berkley claims it can outfish live bait, and sometimes it can: I’ve seen it do that in saltwater, where it also has an odd tendency to catch bigger fish than live bait. Anyhow, Berkley has naturally been uber-secretive about the Gulp! formula, which is why I was intrigued to see an [...]
