Not only do game fish avoid or ignore unpleasant smells, they actively key in on
other, more appealing smells that indicate the presence of their most desirable,
energy-rich prey, especially oily bait fish like anchovies, sardines, mackerel, shad,
and menhaden.
It's no accident that these oily fishes are the most widely-used bait fish species,
too; game fish, while they'll often eat almost any fish they can catch, will key in on
these species in particular because their higher oil content provides much more
energy than less oily fish, and are therefore a much more efficient food and energy
source. Fats provide more than twice the energy, gram for gram, as proteins and
carbohydrates.
- Fats/oils provide 9 calories of energy per gram.
- Proteins provide 4 calories of energy per gram.
Game fish learn to associate the smell of the tissue oils and body fluids of oily bait
fish species with the chaos and opportunity of a "feeding frenzy"; as game fish
corral and tear into trapped bait fish, the mangled fish, fish fragments and fish
body fluids disperse into the water creating a smell that game fish have learned to
associate with optimal feeding opportunities.
BiteGrease captured that very scent and uses it to mask any undesirable smells
on your presentation - be it a bait, fly, lure, natural bait and even live bait -
replacing them with the tantalizing and familiar scent of bait fish tissue oils. And the
closer a game fish gets, the stronger the provocation to strike.
BiteGrease leverages a game fish's acute sense of smell and feeding instincts
against it, inducing more aggressive and more frequent strikes, fewer dropped
pickups and a longer window of time for your hookset.
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