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Over the years, soft baits have been enhanced with various scent and flavor components to increase their effectiveness. Historically, bass anglers first gravitated to anise-based oils - the black licorice smelling stuff. Then companies began to market formulas meant to simulate the smell of forage-basically small bottles of liquid chum. Both scent types fouled many a tackle box.
More recently, garlic-based scents have become popular. Likewise, seems like everybody is throwing around the terms “amino acids” and “pheromones,” as if they were the same thing. Not the case.
Amino acids are complex proteins that fish can “smell” when water is taken through the nares (nostrils). This information is turned into electrical impulses that travel to the fish’s brain where it’s interpreted. Based on this, the fish may move toward the potential food source. This is how olfaction works. Likewise, when a bass inhales food it “tastes” amino acids and decides whether or not to eat it. Biologists call this gustation.
Here’s the difference with pheromones. While we might pick up the smell of a baking pizza and peer in the oven window, we don’t open our mouths until someone first yells “time to eat!” And that’s how pheromones work-they’re the chemical equivalent of a dinner bell.
But who sounds the bell? It can be the forage, predators-or both. For example, a school of busting shad sends chemical signals to each other to move away from danger. In turn, bass communicate movement toward the forage. Schools of fish are like a formation of fighter jets. They’re constantly communicating with each other to go in for the kill or move away from danger.
Now here’s the really cool thing. Since pheromones are naturally occurring, bass don’t get conditioned to them, like other olfactory stimulants.
That’s what makes Trigger X Aggression formula unique. It’s constantly communicating ‘time to eat!’ in a language bass understand. It’s a mixture of forage and predator pheromones that triggers instinctive and aggressive feeding behavior.
Over seven years in development, the goal was to break down the bass language barrier on a chemical level, allowing anglers to catch more fish. And the results have been extraordinary.
Four Major Bass Food Groups... And More
Trigger X Aggression baits cover the four major bass food groups and a whole lot more. From minnows and craws to creatures, lizards and worms, there’s a Trigger X bait for every major bass technique and tactic in your arsenal. Whether you’re power fishing in the thickest summer salad or drop-shooting tight-lipped bass in deep, cold waters, there’s a Trigger X bait for the job.
From the get-go, every Trigger X bait is flexible, yet durable, meaning it stays on the hook longer and gets you more bass for your buck. Plus, Trigger X baits are phthalate-free so there’s no unnatural, plastic smell that’ll turn off fish.
What Trigger X does have is plenty of the good stuff. All Trigger X baits are comprised of bio-salts and a unique ribbed texture that increases retention and distribution of the Aggression formula.
Bait designers also spent a lot of time on bait action, tapping the brains of the industry’s top pros to ensure that each bait yields the best possible fishing experience.
Each Trigger X shape features a unique rate of fall and drop ratio maximized to catch more bass, and molded to exact mass and weight tolerances that drop and spiral in a way irresistible to bass.
Classic fish-catching colors like Green Pumpkin, Red Shad, and Blue Black are staples and numerous color extensions like Muck-a combination of green watermelon and red that has high UV properties. Turns out it catches fish, too-in spades.
Isn’t it time you started communicating with bass in language they understand?
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