Like night and day. If you want follows from interested fish, use the bare hootchie. If you want rod-ripping strikes, add a strip of herring fillet. You won't regret it.

FYI you can save a little $$$ by recycling the plug-cut herring that you've been dragging for the last hour when it will no longer spin from having the beveled cut edge curl out or the belly flayed open. Fillet these "trashed" baits, exposing fresh meat and stink for your hootchies.
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"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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