I'm pretty sure this is marketed towards stocked fish. Wild trout won't touch this stuff but powerbait, cheese, corn, and dough I've seen work really well for stocked fish. I'm not sure if the garlic makes a difference but it does seem to work well on stockies. I used to know a guy who fished the stocked stream near my house who would buy a regular jar of powerbait and scent it with garlic himself. He gave me a jar once and it definitely caught a bunch of fish so I know it does work.

This is carp bait pure and simple. Trout, may like it and it may sell to newbie trout people because it says "trout". But the marketing is subtle. Some see "trout", while others (european, asian, discerning americans), see the other key word, "garlic". we know that "garlic" is just another way to spell "carp". 80 % of people buying this will only try it once. But the other 20% will use the whole jar. And that is because they are carp heads. Which is great. They are catching the one 30 lb fish in the lake; with garlic, while everyone else on the lake has a $40 thousand dollar boat targeting 3lb largemouth.

Carp are dukes, bass are peasants.

I don't know about the answer regaring specific scents, but I think Berkely is generally on the ball. If spinfishing for trout, I rarely use live bait, but commonly use the Berkley micros wigglers, and recently the Gulp "Trout worms". Both are very affective. I've used scentless grubs and worms with similar profiles on the same streams on the same days out of curiousity. The scented plastics (and whatever Gulp is made out of) perform very well in comparison.

I think chinook maybe onto something. I've got a saltwater fish tank & I sometimes soak the fish food in garlic because it helps boost their immune systems to help fight off sickness...

The stocked fish probably were getting fed food at some point that could have had garlic added to it?? the fish associate the scent with troube-free food??

well i will give it a try the fish don't like the pink power bait.