Gulp

[Mr. Pike1]

How many have used this and with what results. I have tried the the 3" minnow, the minnow grub, the 6" crawler, and the leech imitator. I do not see any better results with this then the plain old Berkley power bair or power bait with b i o salt. I also do get any where near the resutlts with this as I do with live bait presentations. I interested in what others have to report

[This message has been edited by Rick (edited 10-06-2004).]

[Northlander]

I use gulp or Power Baits of all sorts and do well on them. I dont think anything works like live bait but at certain times I di better with them. Usually in current areas I like the Power Shiners in Walleyes/Tournament sent.
I love the plastics when its cold out. No cold /wet hands to deal with. Spring and Fall seem best. I also like bumping up the sizes with the plastics this time of year. Seems the fish Im catching love the biggest shiner imatations I can find. I cant find Bunji Leeches anymore and it bums me out.
Biggest thing I found was to use them when I normally wouldnt and gain confedince in them. If you dont use them you cant catch anything and dont get comfortable with them.
Yesterday Me and Jim H. caught a lot of BIG Lake Superior Smallies on Power Leeches or Power Shiners.

[92python]

Used it on Tonka quite a bit this summer. 3" grubs on jigs and crawlers with spinners for trolling.

Worked fairly well but I still do better with minnows.

Sunnies tore the tails off quite a bit. They were more aggressive than with power bait. They like the smell.

[kslipsinker]

I had good results with the Gulp, but also had good results with the old reliable Power Bait. If you forget it on a hook or let it lay in the boat, it can harden on a hook. Even if you lay it down for a while to try something else, it will harden and need to be changed. I always have it dangling over the side of the boat to keep it wet. Sunfish will attack it while it hangs in the water.

[Bob/Mn]

I tried a comparison of Gulp to PowerBait on crappies and found they both worked equally well.
My fishing partner and I used the same equipment and jigs. The only difference was the added Gulp or PowerBait.
It would have been nice to have had the third person along using just a plane jig for reference.

[This message has been edited by Bob/Mn (edited 10-01-2004).]

[Rick]

I've had more times than not, when plastics or GULP outfished live bait easily.

However, on Kab last week that was not the case. Live bait won the day there.

[G_man]

I get better results with gold ol' live bait. I keep the gulp and other similar products around for when I don't have live bait handy.

[Mr. Pike1]

Good to hear there has success. I will need to continue to try the different plastics and gulp. My box is loaded with so many of these and I love to try different tactics as you never know what is going to be the trigger. My confidence is still on the live bait. I am going to try some of these on the hard water as well. In this situation I can fish two lines and make a pretty accurate comparison on what the fish prefer..