Get the Alive minnows !! have used Gulp sinking minnows myself, was actually very impressed with the results. Btw, Rick Mercer this morning around 11am (I think on TSN or maybe Sportsnet) nailing small-mouth after small-mouth on those Alive minnows. The amount of scent they off give is sooooo strong, that the fish will litterally go after that bait over the real thing lol. The other day, was at a bass pond, my good fishing buddy was using YUM sticks and a few senkos (which are the usual norm), I had this leftover pack of "cherry seed" gulp sinking minnows, never used it cause I never liked the color, the baits are red w/ black glitter (I prefer watermelon or hot pink).. I decided as an experiment to see how it would do against my buddy that was using the good colored senkos & YUMs loaded with salt..
Lets put it this way, I outfished him like 12-3 & I was using cherryseed (not my favorite color, watermelon w/ red flake) Gulp sinking minnows wacky rigged with a 3/0 ultrapoint hook. Eventually I had to give him some when he caught on lol.. Also after a while we would even switch back to the YUM & reg senkos, dipp em in the gulp juice, and the fish would start hitting the other baits just like that lol, try it ! We also tried dipping them back in the salt aswell for added attraction, it worked well, but the gulp scent/bait was reigned surpreme for the day.