For those of you, like me, who believe that scent plays a large role in bass fishing, I would like to share one of the best kept secrets in the industry. JJ’s Magic is rapidly becoming a staple in the boat for not only weekend anglers but many professionals as well. I have been using “the magic” for a couple of seasons now and I certainly feel that it gives me a competitive edge on tournament day.
I had been using another dipping dye for years and while I always kept some in the boat, often times I wouldn’t reach for it unless conditions got tough. I didn’t use it so much for the scent because that didn’t seem to last more than a few minutes. It was always more of a color thing with me. Once I was introduced to James and Carl at the BassMaster’s Classic Expo in Birmingham that changed.
JJ’s uses a chemical formula that allows the scent to actually permeate the bait which results in a permanent scent as well as color on your baits. Just dip the plastic into one of the 5 different colors that are available and you are all set. I have even taken a treated plastic and left it in a bowl of water to see how long it would hold the scent. It took several days for the scent to fade and it never went entirely away. Now, if you can fish with the same piece of plastic for several days, I need your phone number and some pointers.
Magic is available in clear, merthiolate, blue, chartreuse and the newest color, red. You can use several different colors on one bait to get a look that fish have never seen, go with the old standby method of dipping the tip of your bait into the chartreuse dye or just stick with the clear when no additional color is needed. There are several videos on YouTube demonstrating how to dress up a bait using Magic and the possibilities are truly endless.
While many anglers may have a color preference, what is not arguable is results. While out in the boat with a good friend of mine, Chris Cook, we were on a good plastic bite and decided to see just what kind of effect JJ’s Magic had on the bite. Both of us were using the same color and exact same rig. Both of us were catching fish at about the same pace until I stopped using Magic and Chris continued to use his treated bait. Within a few minutes he had caught 4 or 5 fish and I had not put anything in the boat and our experiment was over with a quickness. I dipped my bait and almost immediately hooked up.
Over the past couple of years I have introduced several anglers to JJ’s Magic and every one of them has continued to use the products after seeing what it could do for them. If you haven’t tried it yet, visit http://www.jjsmagic.com/ and order yours today. As JJ and Carl like to say. “If you aren’t using it, you are being beat by it.”
