When good Gulp goes bad

[Smells like fish]

Just found an opened packet of Gulp 1" Hellgranmites from 4-5 years ago. Dried out hard but appear to have held their form. Filled up bag with the Gulp Recharge juice to experiment if they will come back to life... Anybody done this before? Boredom from not fishing!

[TnRiver46]

I had to cut a gulp minnow off a jig head yesterday that I forgot about with a pocket knife ha ha

[Luke Barnes]

1 hour ago, Smells like fish said:

Just found an opened packet of Gulp 1" Hellgranmites from 4-5 years ago. Dried out hard but appear to have held their form. Filled up bag with the Gulp Recharge juice to experiment if they will come back to life... Anybody done this before? Boredom from not fishing!

Never recharged Gulps but put various soft plastics in an empty bag of Gulp Minnows to see how well they would absorb the Gulp Juice. Most didn't and just washed off. 

[Smells like fish]

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I had to cut a gulp minnow off a jig head yesterday that I forgot about with a pocket knife ha ha

That's some tough stuff dried out!

[Smells like fish]

Update: baits came back as soft and bendy as new. After 4-5 years dry and freezing and thawing in outbuilding. Gulp is a little annoying to use but it gets great results! 

[Luke Barnes]

That's awesome! All ive ever used is gulp minnows and when targeting bass with them, on a drop shot.

[mrpao]

Regular plastics will not normally absorb the gulp juice.

Gulp products are porous and can absorb the juice.

Therefore can also dry out.

[TnRiver46]

13 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

Update: baits came back as soft and bendy as new. After 4-5 years dry and freezing and thawing in outbuilding. Gulp is a little annoying to use but it gets great results! 

“It’s a formidable scent....... it stings the nostrils” -Ron burgundy 

[Dorado]

Don’t know what I’d do without my Gulp Alive Minnows. A very long time ago, I kept various Gulp products in a sealed, glass mason jar. Horrible idea!

 

One day, in my garage, the jar got knocked over and shattered all over my garage floor! Summer time in AZ during the accident and that smell never went away! 
 

After that atrocity, I bought a nice, compact Frabil plastic bait container to house all of my Gulp baits. Periodically, I just buy tubes of recharge liquid to replenish the juice whenever the level gets low. 

[J Francho]

I've recharged them in the buckets.  

[Smells like fish]

11 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

That's awesome! All ive ever used is gulp minnows and when targeting bass with them, on a drop shot.

On the website I see the equivalent of brush hogs that are made from gulp. Just think how amazing these will be and worked super slow or just laying motionless the bass will go wild for them I'm thinking!

[Luke Barnes]

How does everybody utilize their Gulp lures? I either drop shot the 3.5" minnows or simple bobber, split ****, hook and reeled back slow. 

[Dorado]

21 minutes ago, Luke Barnes said:

How does everybody utilize their Gulp lures? I either drop shot the 3.5" minnows or simple bobber, split ****, hook and reeled back slow. 

1” floating trout worms - pink and chartreuse on a slip bobber rig with 12” -18” leader 4# test with a size 12 mosquito hook. 
 

1” Gulp fry minnows - 12” under a bobber on a 1/64 oz trout magnet jig head. Most effective bait for panfish

 

2.5”  Gulp minnow - Black Shad is my jam. Drop shot from my kayak. Great for crappie, largies, and channel cats. Paired on a roadrunner jig head is a ton of fun. 
 

3” Gulp minnow - For walleyes, slip-bobber rig, nose-hooked, with the bait presented a foot off the bottom. Bright and loud colored jigheads

[Luke Barnes]

16 minutes ago, Dorado said:

1” floating trout worms - pink and chartreuse on a slip bobber rig with 12” -18” leader 4# test with a size 12 mosquito hook. 
 

1” Gulp fry minnows - 12” under a bobber on a 1/64 oz trout magnet jig head. Most effective bait for panfish

 

2.5”  Gulp minnow - Black Shad is my jam. Drop shot from my kayak. Great for crappie, largies, and channel cats. Paired on a roadrunner jig head is a ton of fun. 
 

3” Gulp minnow - For walleyes, slip-bobber rig, nose-hooked, with the bait presented a foot off the bottom. Bright and loud colored jigheads

Ive been thinking about the 1" minnow for my Panfish Magnet jig heads. The Panfish magnet bodies do good but I bet the small gulp minnows would slay!

[Dorado]

38 minutes ago, Luke Barnes said:

Ive been thinking about the 1" minnow for my Panfish Magnet jig heads. The Panfish magnet bodies do good but I bet the small gulp minnows would slay!

I’ve tried the panfish magnets too and the gulp fry minnows win by a wide margin my friend 

[Jonas Staggs]

Gulp slays! Big fan of their 1 inch minnow. The larger ones work well in saltwater...mostly just rig them on a jig.

 

Just grabbed their brushog in 1" can't wait to try.

 

I got the gulp juice spray bottle. Put i keep a handful of plastics in a zip lock bag and spray/soak with gulp juice.

 

Never tried resoaking them but have had to cut dried ones off jigs 

 

 

[Mbirdsley]

I used to crush it on the Shiawassee River mid summer with a gulp crawler in pumpkin ( closest thing I’ve to a reel worm).  Rigged it weightless t-rigged abd twitch it back .  Pulled some monster bass and at night catfish.  I would wade during the day or just bank fish.  One of the first Artificial lures that I could get consistent success on when I got BACK into fishing 

[J Francho]

11 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

How does everybody utilize their Gulp lures?

Drop Shot Leeches and minnows for smallmouth.  I'll downsize the hooks for jack perch in fall.

[Luke Barnes]

Ok I'm busting them out again. I have a finesse c-rig with a #2 EWG i bet would do good. I'm going to pick up some 1" minnows too. 

Oh i just had an idea. 3" minnow on a ned head. Look like a minnow feeding on the bottom.