This stuff works quite well, especially chili lime flavor in colder water:


Here are some nice catches using them as hookbait on a hair, pegged with 1 fake corn to wold them in place.

Horrible autoshoot on old camera, but nice 27 lbs fall carp caught in 50 degrees water:



Same spot 1 year later, same rig, this time 27.5 lbs:



The following year, same rig but on the the St Lawrence river, yet another 27 lbs carp. Seems to be magic weight on this setup.



And finally a smaller one in the mid teens on yet another river, this time during ice out in April. Mine was landed on the same rig, first of a double header with a friend of mine first time fishing that spot. We're actually on a large sheet of ice in the pic: