GULP or SQUID?

[fish4fun]

Yes I know this subject has been asked over and over again but maybe now someone can explain it better. Yesterday I was on a sponsored afternoon half day boat out of AH. There were about twenty dragging bait and one jigger. There were five keepers all caught on various combinations. Spearing, spearing with squid, spearing with Gulp, live killies and bucktail. Of course there were also many shorts going back. The ones using Gulp were all different. Some had chartreuse of different lengths and styles....Grubs, mullet, etc. Gulp of chartreuse, white, nuclear, penny, etc. If I were to carry every style in every color I would need a separate cooler just to keep them along with the killies and squid. And let's not forget about the expense to do this. And then of course there was this small youngster out with his grandpa for the first time and only using spearing with a dead stick in the water and catches a beauty of a keeper. So, let's hear what the experts say on this subject because I will be the first to admit I'm not one.