Cuzz’s Bite Me Scents

If a living legend makes it, fish must surely bite it.

Dan T. “Cuzz” DeWitt’s liquid scent has been a difference-maker since it hit the market two years ago. Just like his proven game scents have been championed by big game hunters, even hog hunters, since they were introduced in the late 2010s. Bite Me Formula’s “secret sauce” triggers beaucoup bass and crappie bites while accounting for monster steelhead trout in western waters and peacock bass in Brazil.

DeWitt, a retired big game outfitter and guide from Dry Prong, La., who was inducted into the Louisiana State Chapter of the Legends of the Outdoors National Hall of Fame in 2019, has bottled a synthetic juice he developed especially for fish. The 65-year-old outdoorsman is as proud of the newer Bite Me line of scents as he is of his game scents: Rook’em Juice, C-Mor-Deerz and Cuzz’s Cooter Juice.

“If you take a majority of (soft plastic) baits out there, they have a real strong plastic smell,” DeWitt said, adding his objective was to create something to eliminate the plastic smell and leave a scent trail.

“It took a lot of trial and error and a few lucky breaks,” he said.

Enter Mike Clark of Tyler, Texas. DeWitt called on Clark, an avid fisherman and long-time artificial lure designer with Crème Lure Co.

“Mike Clark really helped,” he said, noting he was giving credit where credit was due. “He’s done more testing than anyone else.”

Realistic scents

Other liquids and juices have been paraded by manufacturers as scent for decades. There have been some wild smells and origins.

Simply, DeWitt asked rhetorically, “What’s more realistic, garlic or shrimp? What’s more realistic, onion or crawfish?”

His newest formulas for fishing are Bite Me Shad Daddy Formula, Bite Me Ew Slime (earthworm) Formula and, for the saltwater fishermen, Bite Me Scrimp Formula. Bite Me Formula is mass produced at an undisclosed out-of-state facility that can handle the volume, DeWitt said.

Bite Me is at its peak performance after soaking soft plastics for a period of time before use.

“Open a bag, a normal bag (of soft plastics), seven or 11 squirts, close the bag and leave overnight,” DeWitt said. “It works the best by marinating it. It gives it a chance to really soak into it. If you let it marinate 24 hours, it will not come off. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.”

The liquid spray permeates soft plastics, he said.

A proven formula

Clark won’t leave home without his marinated Crème Crappie Shads or other Crème Lure Co. soft plastics for crappie. He knows fish will bite the pre-treated soft plastics.

So does Hunter Dubroc.

Dubroc, 23, a huge advocate for Bite Me since it hit the market, caught an 11.4-pound bass during a Holloway Hookers Bass Club tournament March 21 at Cotile Lake. Dubroc hooked the “hawg” on a 3/8-ounce black/blue Googan Finesse Jig with a soft plastic trailer marinated in Bite Me Ew Slime Formula.

Dubroc’s father, Brendon Dubroc of Deville, La., a fishing guide who owns Slab Hunters La LLC, pulls beaucoup crappie from Saline-Larto Lake, Toledo Bend and other waterbodies in the state while relying on the Bite Me Shad Daddy Formula. He’s perhaps the most outspoken proponent for the scent’s effectiveness whenever he and his clients use soft plastics.

“It’s the best scent that I’ve found,” he said. “When I use soft plastics, I soak them first.”

For more information on Cuzz’s Bite Me Shad Daddy Formula and other Old Indian Tricks LLC products, go to old-indian-tricks-llc.myshopify.com or call (870) 584-6325.

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