Taku Ito reveals how to make secret bait marinade

It’s long been one of the biggest mysteries in bass fishing. Now, Takumi Ito is ready to share his secret marinade recipe called “Takumizuke.”

To create the marinade you will need an air-tight container like an Ecogear AquaStocker shown here.

First, Taku marinates some smallmouth baits.

This time he picked Nories Rock Claw and Nories Switch On Trailer.

Taku puts them in an Ecogear Aquastocker container. You can also put different style baits together that are similar colors if you wish.

Hint: It is important to not overload the containers, if you do, it risks changing the shape of the plastics.

The baits are now ready to marinate with Nories Aging Bass Liquid.

You can sense the smell of “Japanese Umami” that will attract American and Japanese bass!

Takumi pours the Nories Aging Bass Liquid into the container.

You want the plastics to be fully submerged in liquid.

He adds the Nories Aging Bass Liquid to the other container. He will marinate several containers at once.

Taku ran out of liquid. Normally he would add more to fully cover the plastics.

The next step is to close the lids.

It is important to make sure they are closed tight. You do not want this liquid to leak out.

The Ecogear Aquastocker has four locks, so you don’t have to worry about leaking.

You will want to use a Sharpie to date the containers.

Taku also draws pictures of the baits for easy recognition. These containers will stay on the shelf for one month to two years! The longer it stays, the more scent will be added to the lures. Plastic sucks in the formula and increases in size, and the texture of the baits also changes.

By the time you are ready to use, the plastic sucks up all the “Umami” scent that all smallmouth bass love.

Now for another very important step: adding Nories Bite Powder. Yes, that white powder you saw on his boat in Top Lure photo galleries. The package with the label on is already selling in Japan. The one with handwriting on it is the one he uses during the Bassmaster tournaments, which is more effective for the American bass. He is still working on it.

When you are ready to use, finally bring out the one-month to two-year marinated baits.

You can put your marinated baits into a Ziplock or the original manufacturer’s bag.

Put your Nories Bite Powder into the bag …

… then put more.

Make sure you smell the white powder yourself. It smells good!

As you were thinking, just shake them up …

… and shake more.

Make sure the baits are fully covered with the Bite Powder.

It should look like this.

When this plastic covered with Nories Bite Powder gets wet …

… the powder transforms into a slimy skin coating on a lure.

This U.S. version of Bite Powder Taku is working on will stay longer on a lure as a slimy skin coating than the Japanese version. Smallmouth bass love scent, and when action is given to the lure, the scent will be slowly released in the water that smallmouth can’t resist!