Strike King Coffee Tubes

[The Next KVD]

Has anyone used these yet?  Just sounds like a gimick to me but thought i'd ask before I buy some.

[.dsaavedra.]

i read about em somehwere a few months back and i thought they were total BS. but who knows...i havent tried em, i dont know anyone who has, maybe they are great...i predict that 90% chance they dont improve catch rates/they suck, 4% chance they repel the fish, 4% chance they work, 2% chance theyre awesome   just my thoughts, none of that is based on experience.

[WCCT]

Coffee is a great scent for bass.  Does it work better than other scents?  I'm not sure, but it does work and I gained a ton of confidence using coffee scented baits this fall.

[.ghoti.]

Coffee is a great scent for bass. Does it work better than other scents? I'm not sure, but it does work and I gained a ton of confidence using coffee scented baits this fall.

From a guy who makes a lot of baits, that's a good endorsement.

You just changed my mind. I was gonna wait until they came out with the donut flavored inserts to go with them.

Cheers,

GK

[FishTank]

Sounds like a complete gimic to me.  Maybe they will come out with a Starbucks Version for $5 more.

[jt236]

read about the coffee tubes.made a pot of coffee dumped the grounds in a ziplock bag.put some four inch zoom worms in bag let sit for a few days.have used them on quite a few fishing trips so far one fish.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Obviously a new gimmick intended to wake the bass up on one of those cold misty mornings when it seems they are all sleeping.I like the one about the donut inserts

[WCCT]

read about the coffee tubes.made a pot of coffee dumped the grounds in a ziplock bag.put some four inch zoom worms in bag let sit for a few days.have used them on quite a few fishing trips so far one fish.

The last tournament I was in, my partner and I had one fish at noon.  We were throwing drop shots and dragging hula grubs on football heads around all morning.  Well we switched to dragging a 4" coffee lizard and within the next 2 hours we had culled probably 10 times.  The color we were using was just plain coffee in the plastic with no colorant.  It makes a nice cinnamon colored bait.  Now was it the coffee, or was it the lizard they really wanted?  Who knows, probably a little of both, but now I have huge confidence in the coffee scent.  And as you all know, it is all about the confidence

[flippin]

used them on the ohio river in the fall caught three keepers so ill keep using them

[Cory20]

If you want a professional opinion on scent regarding to bass, check your local library for Knowing Bass by Dr. Keith Jones.  He was the head of fish and something research for Berkley.  There is an in-depth chapter (with pictures   ) on how bass smell and also their reaction to certain scents in a laboratory environment.

 "Bass are not the lovers of spicy-sweet foods that we are.  When given cotton pellets or small pieces of sponges saturated with assorted flavors, bass readily eat the ones soaked in, say, a nightcrawler extract.  However, sweet flavors are almost always spit out, often within a split second, while garlic and plain table salt fare only a little better.  Interestingly, salt mixes that imitate the saline content found in natural prey appear much more palatable to bass than table salt."

taken from table 3-8 page 57.

on this table it has:

worm extract ranked 100%

sugar 3%

garlic 2%

anise 1%

salt 3%

Prey salt mix 3%

I'm not saying that this stuff is gospel.  Just some interesting (recent, 2002) material put out by a guy who has the degrees and some solid credentials.