Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3907 Mar 13-27 | Page 11
VOL.39 • ISS. 7
March 13-27, 2020
TROUT ANGLERS CHALLENGE
Want Bigger Trout? Tip The Scales With Pro-Cure!
I
n the world of fish scents many
anglers feel that Pro-Cure Super
Gels have no rivals. As good as Super
Gels were they got even more effective
with the addition of UV enhancement.
It’s like attaching a lit light bulb to your
lure or bait. The visibility brings fish in
to investigate, and the scent gets them
to feed.
There is no other product on the
market that even comes close to
performing like Super Gel. Made from
real bait and enhanced with powerful
amino acids in a sticky base that sticks
and sticks to lures, spoons, spinners,
soft baits, etc. for an exceptionally long
time.
Every serious trout angler should have
a solid selection of Pro-Cure Super Gels
to choose from. So what scents work best
for rainbow trout? There are a long list
of scents that appeal to rainbows and of
course having confidence in the scent you
are using is a huge part of success. Here
are a few tried and true Pro-Cure trout
scents.
Predator
This is Pro-Cure’s No. 1 all around scent
blend. It’s is made from ground up salmon
eggs, shrimp, fish oils, pure anise oil and
bite stimulants, this scent has proven
effective for trout, salmon and steelhead.
Garlic Plus
This is a great all around trout scent.
Amp up your favorite floating bait by
putting a small dab of Super Gel Garlic
Plus on your baits. If you are in a system
with lots of folks soaking floating bait,
adding this scent could be magic! If you
are fishing the new Pro-Cure Bad Azz
Single Salmon Eggs try adding a squirt of
garlic oil.
Garlic Nightcrawler
Big trout love crawlers, and adding the
garlic scent just improves performance.
Beware, some days the addition of garlic
is red hot, and some days it isn’t. This is
a terrific alternate scent, but should not be
your only choice of scents to use.
Crawfish
The ultimate crawfish scent! Big trout
love crawfish, and this scent is made from
real whole crawfish! Perfect for use on
jigs, soft plastics, hoochies, crank baits,
etc. Kokanee love it too.
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by Cal Kellogg
Krill
Made from
real arctic krill.
Use the oil as
a marinade
on eggs for
steelhead, trout
and salmon, or
squirt onto corn
or floating bait.
The super sticky
gel is great
for spinners,
spoons, lures, jig
heads, etc. A little
bit lasts a long, long time.
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Vibration & Flash! by Cal Kellogg
W
hy are Flatfish such effective
trout catchers? Clearly speed and
action are the keys to the lure’s effective-
ness. The lure provides lots
of wiggle, putting off
a ton of
vibration
and flash,
yet do
to it’s design it creates this
disturbance at very low speeds. This
means that the Flatfish offers a bunch of
action and vibration, while staying in the
strike zone for an extended period of time.
A glance at the Yakima Bait catalogue
reveals that Flatfish come in 2 million
colors and 1 millions different sizes…
Okay I’m exaggerating, but there are a
bunch of choices to sort through.
For trout stick to baits in the F-2 to
F-7 size range. I use F-4s and F-7s
almost exclusively although I’ll upsize
if magnum size trout or macks are in the
mix.
As a general rule, you want to match the
size of the Flatfish to the size of the bait
you believe the fish are feeding on.
For trout the all time hands down
favorite color of Flatfish is Yellow Dot
Frog. If you are a trout angler and you
don’t have a Frog pattern Flatfish, it
concerns me!
When the conditions are dark I like to
run Flatfish in Frog and black w/char-
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the California Watermelon finish being a real
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Bright orange, yellow or chartreuse
hued Flatfish come out when the
water is stained and at times when
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I’m
probing
deep
water for trout or
kings, I’ll often put a
The Speedy Shiner is a highly effective trolling bait for all types of
chrome/blue Flatfish
on my line.
gamefish, especially rainbow and brown trout,
I don’t run Flatfish
lake trout or mackinaw, and landlocked
with blades or
King and Coho Salmon.
It is
attractors, but I’ll
The
Speedy
Shiner has a very
constructed
often wrap or tip
effective action up to 4 mph.
of quality solid
them to make them
even more attrac-
brass, stainless
tive. For tipping I
steel rings and extra
use either a small
strong hooks VMC hooks. The
anchovy fillet or a
light reflecting embossed scale design
tiny piece of worm.
creates an enticing flash that
For wrapping I
attracts fish and
employ nylon thread
triggers them to strike!
and a small anchovy
or shad fillet. I apply
it to the plug just
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