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Ever catch anything with it?

I can get a few with various plastic baits, but not the Gulp.

Gulp in packages or Gulp Alive in the little bucket?

The gulp! minnows are killer. So are the sandworms. Use them on lingcod, rockfish, pile perch. The eggs outfish powerbait for trout 3 to 1. I use the maggots for kokanee too.

I've caught a lot of west coast surf perch on both the packaged and the bucket.

Both.

That's my brothers' job, he designs all those Berkley soft baits and programs all the mills and lathes to cut the molds used for injection molding. It's all cnc stuff. His boss is a chemist that designs the make up of the soft baits materials. Berkley gulp and power baits are leaders in the water. Mb

Yes to having used both.

I liked the Gulp Alive best. Caught a schittload of white bass on em. Haven't used em for several years now as I am back to tying my own marabou and hair jigs.

2" Power grub is a favorite of mine.

Natural and chartreuse in color.

Walleye, crappie, white bass and smallmouth love em.

Cool job!

I’ve used their soft baits for years.

Like any job it has it s ups and downs but it's been good for him
He has almost 40 years there he likes being out in front and going hard doing new innovative things. Imagine being adept enough on a computer to design in detail 3 dimensional lures and change minutest details to improve the way it moves thru the water and it's allure to the fish , that's cool. Mb

The only bad thing about Berkley Beddel is, he's a Democrat.

I've used Gulp in the little jugs and bags - never caught anything on them tho.

Admit - only used while fishing the walleye run on the Fox river - combat fishing, those walleye see 2000 baits on their swim and the Fox is a chemical heavy body of water - paper mills on it over 100 years so whatever Berkley puts on them - likely disappears before depth.

And has been dead since 2019.
Berkley tm is very recognizable in the fishing industry and was bought out by a conglomerate who renamed it Pure Fishing.

Yes Berkley Beddel was a democrat, while Berkley was in Congress his son Tom ran a PAC in D.C. With both of them in D.C. the Berkley Company was struggling. The family decided that Tom return to Spirit Lake to take over Berkley.

I met Tom Beddell twice, he re-built Berkley to the company it is today. How he rebuilt Berkley was just absolutely remarkable. Berkley was privately owned by the Beddell family so when Tom said it was time to sell.
Jarad Corp (?) bought Berkley for a "Billion Dollars". Not bad...I'd say.

I missed that Bob.

Never used Gulp softbait in freshwater but they are great baits in saltwater. I catch table size (15" - 17") flounder with the white 5" curly tail grub on a regular basis. If the flounder are there they rarely fail to bite a Gulp grub.

Any free samples ?

The 1 1/2 and 2 minnows are killer on just about anything catchable in fresh water.

I need to find some fish, that have read the book.

I am a big fan of the gulp alive 2” minnows on a beatle spin. One can fill a five gallon bucket of panfish in short order.