Gulp alive

[theresa]

I'm heading up to Lake of the woods the end of the month. has anyone tried the new gulp alive for ice fishing and what were the results.

[polarsusd81]

Be very careful not to leave it in the truck or outside anywhere. It will freeze if left outside. That warning aside, I have heard of very good results from people willing to give them a shot. It isn't like dropping a minnow down as you must provide the action of course, but there are times when the walters on the woods will take a dead stick plastic minnow as well. If they don't take the jigging presentation, give em the old dead stick trick. All you can do is try it out. Let us know how you do.

[Loon]

I used it on Leech last month because I kept losing $1 shiners on my rattling spoon. The Gulp hangs on for at least 3 fish and you can jig it more aggressively.

I used 3" Emerald Shiners left over from the fall.

It works...I didn't notice anyone in my group doing better or worse.

At the end of the weekend I packed my bait away for another trip and the other guys dumped theirs in the ditch.

[robert1965]

I will be on L.O.W on the Canadian side outside of kenora this week using gulp minnows. I am going to try a few different things with them, im excited to try cutting them in pieces and use under a jigging rapala. I'm also going to try them dead sticking, tapping my rod here and there to give it some action, I will let you know how I do.

[Iceseeker]

If they do freeze, are they still good when they thaw?

Iceseeker

[BoxMN]

FWIW, I use Gulp a lot in summer. For the leeches maybe the Alive works better, as they are more "pliable" but for minnows I find the packaged ones seem to last longer and stay on hook better, and have not noticed the Alive works better. The thin packaged is just easier to deal with for me. Haven't tried in winter, but I have the Gulp maggot/larvae bottles and they work great, and easy to use and keep in bibs pocket. Still working after three years

[deadeye]

Ya they are great for up in canada. I could not believe how much live bait was up there. I had a hard time with how much dead bait was. I was glad that I brought the Gulp Alive minnows with. They stayed on the hook a lot better than any of the dead bait and I got up to 20 eyes for each minnow. I wont say that I got more bites than anyone, but my hookup rate was much better. I have yet to use them in winter, but on lake of the woods I have gotten fish on a unbaited jig. Im sure it will work fine.

[irishwalleye]

Nope doesnt work at all.

As a matter of fact its the worst product ever.

And if anyone would like to get rid of theirs, they can mail all directly to me (especially if they have the 4" rainbow color, which doesnt exist).