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Gulp

We catch fish 2:1 or better with Gulp. I'm a believer. I'll take gulp over shrimp some times because the trash fish can't steal it as easy.

Love gulp products. If nothing else they hold on to in longer cause it tastes right allowing for a better hook set.

I'm convinced it works. I used to fish a good bit off the pier at Ft Morgan before they closed it. You could drop a Gulp right beside the pier and the little bait stealers would peck away at it. Drop a regular plastic bait down, nothing.

We run out of live shrimp on jettis in corpus just catchin rat reds for fun with a float an i had a pack of gulp shrimp so we started usin them thangs... An we just kept beatin them up. Good bait not very durable but good none the less

Last time I went I had a free drifting live shrimp while I casted gulp 4"shrimp on a jig head. My gulp out fished the live shrimp. I love that stinking stuff!

Not knowing any better, I always just thought it was a gimmick. Guess I should give it a shot next time I surf fish.

I know it works for saltwater species and believe it "can help" with bass and freshwater species after they bite and get a taste.

Catfish have sensors to detect something like liver or blood or shad, similar to some saltwater fish. Bass don't have those but they have taste receptors inside their mouths, so when they bite and get a jolt of something favorable -- Gulp, for example -- they bite it again or hang on longer. If it's a negative -- gas, for example -- they spit it out.

That's how it was explained to me by some fisheries researchers. I also was a guinea pig on a saltwater boat in the late 90s testing "unknown" vs. cigar minnows for snapper on offshore reefs. The "unknown" was plain white 4-inch tubes with what we later learned were Berkley's PowerBait or Gulp. The captain laughed. Half of us used cigar minnows, half used tubes. Then we switched after a bit.

By the end of the trip we were threading whatever pieces of tube we could find onto a hook and dropping it down.

For salt fish - reds, trout, flounder - yeah, I'd throw a New Penny or Copper Penny or whatever color that penny thing is in Gulp Shrimp or cocahoe or a strip (for flounder) until it didn't work.

Gulp is ok, but the best saltwater artificial on the market today is the matrix shad.

Definitely works.

SBS, what kind of head are you rigging the Matrix Shad on? Looks like a pretty good bait. Are they soft or firm?

New Penney shrimp on the beach and inshore will fill a cooler. The matrix shads are great also, but them suckers stink. They are a little more durable than a lot of plastics, and the matrix shad in ultraviolet with a 1/4 oz or 3/8 oz red head will flat catch the fish also.

I prefer a 1/8oz no color head that will stand up when it hits bottom (like an H&H Flats Minnow head) if I'm fishing less than 6 feet of water and the current isn't ripping. I'll go up to 1/4oz if I have to.

However, I've very rarely seen the jig head make a difference if presented the same way. I prefer the matrix shads in a shade of green or with a green strip on them. They're a firmer bait that hold up really well to strikes.

Gulp will catch their arse in fresh water too. Especially up on the Great Lakes.

That's all I'm saying on a public forum...