I am using some frozen shad trying to catch some larger fish. Is it a waste of time? The frozen shad do catch fish.

During winter time shad can be tough to catch and frozen shad is better than nothing, it will catch fish but if you can get some dead red spray and put a good amount on them that will help

I wouldn't use frozen shad till I absolutely had to.

So dead Red is the ticket? I bass fished for years and had folks swear by everything between WD40 and anise oil. I guess while I am learning I may order a scent to put on the bait.

I'm sure there are other things that can be used but one of the popular ones and what I use is Dead Red by TeamCatfish, it was designed to refreshen baits, I pour some in a small container and when I change out baits I just toss it in the container so I can reuse it again, with frozen bait you can just pour it over the bait or in a bag about an hour before you use it and it will absorb into the bait

Don't be scared to use chicken soaked in dead red either.....

+1.

It does work, I thought it was some silly joke until Kansascatman showed me last year

Is dark meat better?lol. I prefer Popeyes spicy but not much of it gets into the lake. Seriously do you cut up whole chicken or just buy what's on sale? Do I let it bake in the sun till it stinks like hades?

Buy boneless, if fishing for blues do not let it bake, just throw them in a ziplock bag with some dead red, I have heard of some people that just use it without any additive

Stinkbait Tom mentioned using chicken at times. I Need to contact team catfish for same dead red.