Carp has brought up an important point. When fish are hitting good, they tend to hit anything.
I use plastics for pannies in open water almost exclusively and infrequently use waxies. Minnows are almost never used. The scented ,formed baits like Power bait “waxies” and Gulp grubs are in the box too. But what I have found is that the PB is way more productive than any of the Gulp stuff when it is used to add scent to, say, a jigging spoon. Honestly though, if I think that waxies are going to be a needed bait, I take them along as they are way more apt to get fish than any formed grub meant to replace them.
For the waldos/sauger….I have used PB minnows and twisters for years along with Exude twisters. These products are my go-to right now when the water is cold and plastics reign. Gulp? I have several packages of the same minnow shaped baits as PB and grub-like twisters. I have literally been on a ripper of a bite using the Power bait or Exude toys, changed over to the Gulp, fished it identically for an hour and gone hit-less for that hour. Switch back and fish are on again.
Gulp dries out in the package if the seal is not solid, It dries out if you leave it on a jig, un-used for a couple hours. It is far less user-friendly than other products that simply do a better job of what this stuff is intended to do. Do some people catch fish with it? Certainly. Now are these same people doing anything to compare it to something that might work better? I love doing plastics and beat the market to death buying and trying. The scented products are getting more and more aggresive in how they are supposed to do this or that, so comparisons are really the only thing we can gauge them by. I have given the Gulp stuff three years of fishing time to prove itself and all I can say is that it is way away from being any kind of confidence bait for me.
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