Best saltwater fishing lures, Gulp Alive!

We have always used live bait, believing nothing could possibly be as good and certainly not better. But we continually heard about the New Gulp Alive being better than real live bait, so we just had to give it a try. And we are glad we did. Here's why.

Gulp Alive Test

The first test was in a tidal swamp in South Carolina were we have consistently been able to catch nice big red fish on live shrimp or mud minnows. Not to mention the occasional door mat sized flounder.

The plan was to first locate some fish with the mud minnows; only because they are easiest to get (live that is) and so we had lots of them.

Once the tide started flowing pretty fast my son got hit with the first Red, about a 9 pounder on a mud minnow. I immediately brought my untouched mud minnow back in and switched to a 3" Gulp Alive New Penny shrimp bait and threw in were he was back with his mud minnow. What's to test if your not in the same hole?

Wham! the next one was mine, only an 8 pounder but a great fight on my light tackle. My son continued to wait with his mud minnow. I decided to switch my still good 3" shrimp for a 3" Gulp Alive Porgy in Pearl White cause the water was pretty murky.

Wham again, excuse the repeated expression, the next one was mine again and this time he exceeded 10 lbs. By the way, with three fish caught we still didn't have a keeper. They were all too long for the limit. Bit I still had my first Gulp bait on the hook.

We stayed on that spot for an hour or more until the tide and the action slowed down. All in all we had caught 14 red fish, 7 a piece. Seems they like the mud minnows as well as the gulp. Only difference was I still had all but one of the baits I started with and my son went through a dozen and a half of mud minnows.

So now we are really close to high tide and it seems the reds had all moved back into the grassy areas they so love at high tide. We picked up anchor and moved inland to a deep creek were we have had plenty of luck when the tide starts moving out.

Realizing we still had 4 dozen live shrimp I asked my son if he wanted to try the Gulp Alive, thinking I could out fish him in the still backwater with a nice live wiggly shrimp. He fell for my ploy and snatched up the Gulp Alive 3" Shrimp bucket and had one in the water before I could get a live one out of the well.

So, he caught the first red, but that was cheating so it doesn't count. I soon got my live bait in the water next to were he caught the first fish and got my share of action on the live shrimp.

By the way, we did finally catch 4 fish small enough to keep and fed the family that evening.

As we ate dinner we compared the live baits with the Gulp Alive baits and realized the only real difference is that you can always get Gulp Alive and you can re-use it several times, or until something swallows it. The live baits are good for that day only and only for a short time then they are gone. We figured the next day to fish the Gulp only. So, next day we didn't spend a dime on bait; we still had all but one Gulp so that was plenty.

Fast forward 2 months. Son Eric came to Florida to do test number two on Florida Red Fish and Snook. It's now winter and the the fish are way up in the creeks with black bottoms that stay pretty warm. This makes it a bit more difficult to find them but with Gulp Alive in our arsenal we were soon catching some small reds and snook. We caught 27 fish that day with only one keeper red.

The amazing thing was they kept hitting the Gulp Alive as well as the live shrimp. We kinda lost track of who caught how many but agreed it seemed pretty equal. We were then convinced that in the long run, Gulp Alive out fishes live baits as you can keep recharging them in the "magic juice" and re-use them till something eats em'. So Gulp Alive wins; try em' you'll like em'.

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