Strike king coffee tubes

[Dfiene1]

This last weekend I had great success with the strike king coffee tubes. The fish wouldn't touch another brand tube in the same color but would inhale these. So that brings me to my question, the coffee tubes are supposed to have ground up coffee beans in them. Any idea on how to recreate this? Just add coffee grounds to the hot plastic?

[andrewlamberson]

I use  the Upper Hand scents that Do-it sells. The Coffee-Shad has worked well for me..

If you plan to put anything in your hot plastic is MUST have no water in it or you will get an instant dream explosion!

The Upper Hand scents can be used in the hot plastic or applied after the bait is molded.

Lots of posts on scents!

[MO QWACK]

I used coffee and donut scents a lot until Justin ate all my Senkos  If you switch to a bud light or Coors scent about noon I think you will do better lol. On a tube can you just put a whole bean up the skirt? Maybe glue it? I have a buddy who swears by those for small mouth. I put a cotton ball soaked in scent up my tubes and some times use Q Tips in my crappie tubes to really hold scent.
Andy is dead on water is bad so if you try ground bean make sure you really dry them in the oven or something

[Carolina Fisher]

I use  the Upper Hand scents that Do-it sells. The Coffee-Shad has worked well for me..

If you plan to put anything in your hot plastic is MUST have no water in it or you will get an instant dream explosion!

The Upper Hand scents can be used in the hot plastic or applied after the bait is molded.

Lots of posts on scents!

Funny story I got the bright idea to add the garlic scent when I was cooking plastic . Needless to say my wife couldn't stop laughing and I couldn't stop puking  . Always add garlic scent after nothing wreaks worst than the smell of hot plastisol and burnt garlic .

Not doing that proabably should have been stickied somewhere .

[Justin9j]

I think and don't hold me to this but I think upper hand will send you just coffee scent. But they claim is very powerful. Call them up and ask. 
The owner used to stop by the forum sometimes. But I think mo ran him off.   
For?!?  ?

[Dfiene1]

This really has me thinking. Every fish was really trying to eat it. A few of them I had to fight to get the tube back out of their gullet. Even with the hook out they wouldn't let the tube go.

[Justin9j]

They must like their coffee. I fight for my coffee too.

[Partycrasher]

I use a lot of scent in tubes.  I wrap a few turns of pipe cleaner around the hook shank behind the head.  The fibers hold the scent better and its buried in the tube.  For Lake Michigan I use a lot of the Pro Cure Sticky Gels in Smelt or Alewife.  For bass I have done well with Smelly Jelly "Bass Feast" which is garlic and crawfish. 

I've packed tubes with squid or a pinch of canned mackerel which works very well on Lake Michigan, but its a mess to deal with.

I wonder if you could reduce coffee down to a thicker consistency and squirt it into tubes?   

Marc

[Partycrasher]

Here is a picture of the jig with the pipe cleaner on it.  Very simple and it holds scent.

This one has a stinger on it.  I use those on Lake Michigan in open water.



Marc

[Dfiene1]

Excellent idea, and so simple. Thanks!

[DF]

 Thanks Marc for sharing, going to try this out.

[bassbuster]

the coffee smell works well for me to..smallies love it......garlic is great to on tubes...we like to spray ( bang) on our tubes..even if we are using the coffee tubes..it just works....

[AJayToRemember]

Always been stumped as to why coffee scent works so well. The largemouths over here eat coffee baits like its candy and they will not let go for anything. Same with quite a few bowfin I've caught, although that could just be because of their aggressiveness.