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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Crappies => Topic started by: Jiggerdoodle on Dec 26, 2019, 04:33 AM
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Was reading about chumming recently on the In fisherman site. Does anyone chum for crappies and what do you use.
Tried using minnow halves one year at a local lake but all I caught was catfish.
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I have prepared a concoction of coffee grounds, salt & garlic, and frozen in an ice tray. Then drop a cube down my hole. I cannot say it definitely made a difference.
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Be sure and check your State’s Regs. In Maine chumming is illegal.
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Someone on this site uses fish scales. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like a good idea.
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My dad used to use oatmeal, once absorbs water sinks slowly
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I have mixed baitmate with oatmeal which sinks slowly as mentioned. I really can't say it made a noticable difference. When fishing a small river I have suspended a can of puss n boots cat food which I poked full of holes fairly close to the bottom of the river. The fish oil from the cat food seems to attract crappie probably due to the current.
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Be sure and check your State’s Regs. In Maine chumming is illegal.
I was going to mention this. I don’t chum so I have never checked on the related regs here in Nebraska.
I have! JDL
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I was going to mention this. I don’t chum so I have never checked on the related regs here in Nebraska.
I have! JDL
Illegal in Minnesota too.
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I just get a small container of crappie nibbles.....throw a couple down the hole to get some scent going. Don't get the eagle claw version though.....they float. The berkley ones sink.
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I dont deliberately chum but my minnows get chucked in the hole along with spikes when i change bait.