yogi59weedr: "Now why would they put a restriction on scented plastics?"
According to the DNR, scented plastics were "engulfed by fish similarly to live bait" restrictions were put into place in the 90's to reduce "gut hooking mortality rates" because of that idea.
For the past 20+ years in Sylvania it's been reasoned that if you put your plastics in the water, and it left any kind of film on the water, as almost all scented plastics do, it is was illegal.