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bunker oil
buy a gallon of bunker/pogie oil fo $20-$30 and it will last you for years. Every year it gets thicker and thicker and smells nastier than the year before. You must spray it on the lure over the side of the boat, because it will make a smellymess on the deck. I keep my bucktail jigs/plastics in ziplock bags w/the oil. Can be messy, however, the stuff works.
When I was a kid, my grandfather had some whale oil from his whaling captain grandfather and we used it. Oil makes a great smelly trail, just like the natural oils of bait/natural prey.
Being a converted flyfisher, I am convinced that oil makes a huge difference. Smelly flies work great. I have old (smelly)flies that I used as teasers years later and they attracted fish.
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