Fish attractant scents

[keithdog]

While at work yesterday, I was thinking about fishing scents that you apply to your lures. Yeah, I know what your thinking but hey, it was friday! Anyways, I was remembering back when I was a boy the scent that was the only scent used was Licorice. Anyone older than 45 who used DeLong worms knows exactly what I'm talking about. And that scent seemed to work very well. I wonder why you never see it used now days? I remember using it on my baits as a kid by taking a bottle of Licorice and some vegetable oil and mixing the two together and dipping my baits into it. It was messy, but back then we didn't have the fancy stuff available today. So I was currious if anyone still uses this scent? And another thing I want to add here. I don't use a scent on any of my reaction type baits like spinnerbaits and crankbaits. I really see no need. Rather, I only use them on my jigs and plastics. Baits that the bass is gonna get close to and eyeball before engolfing the lure. And thats only on days when the bite is tough. But I was thinking about taking my plastic baits which I keep in their original zip lock bags and adding some scent to them ahead of time while stored in the bags, mixing it well with the baits so they have plenty of time to absorbe the scent before they ever come out of the bag. What'aya think about that?