Baits:Slab Sauce, Fire Balls, Crappie Nibbles

[Lund]

Slab Sauce
Pautzke Crappie Fire Balls
Berkley PowerBait Crappie Nibbles (standard, glow, sparkles)
None

Which do you use primary, secondary or all 3?

-Sidebar does Pautzke Fire Dye for Minnows work well? Or just save my money?

I have all 3 (Fire Balls only blue color) not the Fire Dye though. Have had luck with slab sauce and crappie nibbles. Also still learning without LS how to fish for crappie.
Thanks in advance!!

[MCG1]

My experience is the fireballs don't stay on the hook well. I like slab sauce, nibbles, and Slabinator Scent Sticks.

[TBass89]

I’m a firm believer in the slab sauce. IMO it’s hard to beat when adding to your favorite baits. I didn’t realize how important scent could be in getting them to trigger a bite until I started trying it and reading up on it some more. Good luck to you give it a try you will be pleasantly surprised just like I was.


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[Lund]

Fair enough! How often do you reapply it? I do mostly trolling

[TBass89]

Fair enough! How often do you reapply it? I do mostly trolling

Sounds good! I dock shoot and use it on Bobby garland baits. I typically apply it only when I first put on a fresh plastic it seems to hold up good but I also soak the bags they come in with it so that they are sitting in the slab sauce while stored. picture shows the Bobby garland bait in the slab sauce while being stored. I do believe it has helped me increase my catches this year.


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[Lund]

Never thought about soaking them! I have used the original and think it has helped over the others. Just didn't know what others thought. Do you stick with the original or garlic too?

[Les Young]

I may try squirting slab sauce in the bag. I sprayed it on my baits lastnight & when i sniffed it later to see could still smell it for quite a while.

[TBass89]

Never thought about soaking them! I have used the original and think it has helped over the others. Just didn't know what others thought. Do you stick with the original or garlic too?

Original is all I have used so far but I would like to give the garlic a try. Soaking them has worked well for me but I do keep them sealed in their original bags and they haven’t ever dried out or gotten sticky.
FYI this has been my best crappie catching year and that’s one of things that I changed this year was implementing scent.

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[SuperDave336]

Slab Sauce and Berkley nibbles (white, chartreuse and pink)

[catchNgrease]

Fair enough! How often do you reapply it? I do mostly trolling

I have moved to I-Hole jigs for trolling where a nibble presses into the head of the jig. But everything else I give a squirter or a dip. I usually use my jig bottle cap to dip the jig into the sauce.

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