Often people take advantage of the olfactory system of the bass when trying to attract more fish to the end of their line. There are actually some known scents that the bass really enjoy. The main scents or tastes that attract bass include: garlic, salt, and anise plus several other spices.

A bass is equipped to determine whether a scent is “negative” or “positive” and will behave appropriately once that is determined. So of course, the companies who make fish attractants choose the positive smells to mimic their products after. Among the negative scents that the bass will avoid include gasoline or other strong odors transferred from your fingers and blood from a wounded schoolmate.

Bass are equipped with 2 nostrils on both sides of their head. One set of nostrils being the posterior and the other set being the anterior. Water flows into the anterior nostrils, over the olfactory glands, then out again through the posterior nostrils. This amazing olfactory system of the bass can actually detect 1 200th of a drop of a substance in approximately 100 gallons of water. This is the very reason that a lot of anglers will clean their hands before they begin fishing, ridding them of any strong odors. Additionally, it is the reason that they will add attractants to their lures.

Although it is an important factor when bass fishing, scent is not on top of the list like it is with other fish like carp and catfish. With that being said, bass will actually keep a hold of a bait up to 30 seconds longer when a positive scent is present.

Lots of tackle and bait shops carry different attractant products as well as bass lures that already have a scent attached. Among the major attractant manufacturer with products on the market today you have Basswax, Berkley, MegaStrike, Liquid Lure, Mr. Goop, Dr. Juice and plenty more.

A great choice of attractant that I like to use are products containing a beeswax base in a tube like chap stick. The wax stays on the lures or plastic baits much longer and there is no concern for drips and spills. I usually get my beeswax attractants from the company BassWax.

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Bass Fishing As Defined On Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_fishing

Bass fishing is the activity of angling for the North American gamefish known colloquially as the black bass. There are numerous black bass species considered as gamefish in North America, including largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui), Spotted bass or Kentucky bass (Micropterus punctatus), Guadalupe bass (Micropterus treculii), and many other species and subspecies of the genus Micropterus. Though referred to as bass, all are actually members of the sunfish family (Centrarchidae: order Perciformes).