Patent ID: 8883231

Claim:
A method of reducing physical deformation during storage in packaged artificial fishing bait product and enhancing the attractiveness to fish of an artificial, hydrophilic, polymeric soft fish bait in the packaged product, said method comprising: placing a mass of soft baits and a volume of an aqueous suspension in a package, said aqueous suspension comprising (i) a predatory fish stimulant fluid composition, (ii) a water-based fraction of predatory fish stimulant fluid composition, or (iii) an artificial simulated predatory fish stimulant fluid composition to produce a packaged artificial hydrophilic polymeric soft fish bait containing an amount of said aqueous suspension sufficient to suspend said soft bait in said aqueous suspension to reduce crowding and physical distortion and maintain hydration of said soft fish bait during storage and retain flexibility and retain swimming action of said soft baits wherein said aqueous suspension is added to said container in an amount to provide a soft bait mass (grams) to fluid volume (ml) ratio of about 0.01-10.