First of all, Venzke, welcome to the NAFC Forums.  If you've just joined the NAFC, welcome to the Club as well.  Glad to have you here.

As a general rule, the slower your presentation, the larger a part scent plays in it.  I don't really use scents for spinnerbaits, buzzbaits or other quick swimming lures.  The hits on those are, more-or-less, "reaction" strikes.  But for pitching & flipping, Carolina rigging, or other slow methods, I'll use either a spray-on scent, pre-scented soft plastics (Gulp!, PowerBait, etc.) or some type of live bait (minnow, grub, nightcrawler piece, yada-yada-yada) to give the presentation some smell to it.

You can't get the spray-on scent off of soft plastic lures unless you soak the things a reeeeeeally long time.  It will dissipate from hard lures in short order, though.  In fact, you might have to repeatedly spray the balsa & hard plastic baits as you use them.

I use Carolina Lunker Sauce almost exclusively.  It is in my opinion the best attractant on the market today.  I' ve used alot of the sprays and other stuff, and nothing has given me the results as the Sauce.  I live down in SW FLA and do alot of bass and saltwater fishing.  They make scents for both. And in many variations.(shad,garlic,crawdad,crab,mullet ect..) You can mix them too.

It comes in a gel or in a tipped dispenser. Use it on almost everything, soft plastics, hardbaits. I even use it on the skirts on jigs, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits.

Check out their website. 

It's not the cheapest stuff at around $8 a bottle,  but it's worth every cent. What really convinced me was the way it stays on the bait.  Try using any spray or other attractant and just dip you lure in the water...notice the slick that rises to the surface? The Sauce does no do that.  Anyway that's my preference, just give it a try.

Hey Venzke, hope you like the club.

   Fishing with scents can sometimes make a BIG difference between bass and no bass, and is definetly worth the money. It can be used to cover up other scents such as motor oil, which is one of the biggest bass turn offs there is. But when you've got that bass looking at your lure, thinking about it, then turning away, she may have smelt something wrong. Bass can smell 1000 times better than a dog. But when you add that scent, she moves in for the kill. And with the amount of pressure on fish these days, your presentation must be as life-like as possible.  My favorite types of scent are the Yum Live Bait Technology products. I have had tones of success with these scents. Good luck, and catch a big one.

Buy a small jar of petroleum jelly and melt it on low heat.When it is in liquid form mix in a garlic flavor ( powder,crushed,whatever). You will have to stir it as it cools to keep it mixed good.You need to do this in the jar it came in and when you are done you will have a handy litte container to put in pocket or tackle box. If you like you can use anise flavoring ( licorice) instead of the garlic.This stuff works! It will cost you $5.00 and it stays on the lure cast after cast. Good Luck