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Offline AQUAASSASSIN

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #60 on: Feb 04, 2020, 04:34 AM »
Yesterday, I noticed a definite uptick in strikes after I threw the leftover milk from my thermos (for my coffee) in the hole where my deadstick was - - I caught four pickerel in relatively short order out of that hole (which had not had a strike for at least the past hour) before the milk dissipated and the water in the hole cleared up again.

Interesting!
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #61 on: Feb 04, 2020, 07:18 AM »
this is a recipe for chum that  use for many years.. I don't use it much any more, because I don't jig as much as I used to …

I mix equal parts gold fish flakes, oat meal ( Quaker rolled oats) moisten into a sticky doe with grape soda ( strawberry works too, no citris), a few drops of oil of anise completes the concoction... I've used it in a chum pot for just about everything that swims in salt water  ( except sharks)..  and in fresh water ( ice fishing ) it goes in a a small chum pot and is left just below the ice, as the mixture melts away it leaves a trail if mixed scents that are pretty good fish attractor...

when I had my hard side on the Swampscott river, I caught a lot of smelt using that mixture,,
a fair amount of Winni lakers fell for it too...

it also is a heck of a good carp bait..
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #62 on: Feb 04, 2020, 07:33 AM »
Hmmmmm the soda part I have not heard of, interesting....
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #63 on: Feb 04, 2020, 07:35 AM »
Hmmmmm the soda part I have not heard of, interesting....

 Not my creation, an old timer that hung out with my Dad showed it to me...
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #64 on: Feb 04, 2020, 07:39 AM »
Very cool, it’s funny you say Grape bc grape Kool aid powder over sunflower seeds or popcorn is one of my Bear Bait tricks, and it haseto be grape
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #65 on: Feb 04, 2020, 07:58 AM »
Very cool, it’s funny you say Grape bc grape Kool aid powder over sunflower seeds or popcorn is one of my Bear Bait tricks, and it haseto be grape

back in my youth, there was a brook that ran through the woods behind my Aunts house in Andover Mass,it was spring fed and started in the hills and ran into fish brook, which runs into the Merrimack, that brook had native brookies, I don't know if anyone else on the planet even knew it, I use to catch them all summer, one fall I got several that had distended bellies.. I kept one ( I never kept them because they were natives)to see what was up with their guts, darn thing was full of grapes... there were wild grapes ( a great deer hunting spot) that grew on the trees over head... evidently these fish were eating grapes, I never saw it again but I never forgot it either.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #66 on: Feb 04, 2020, 08:02 AM »
Amazing, I know fish in the Amazon do that with falling fruit and nuts.

A roadkill animal hung over a brook with natives works great to concentrate them as the maggots fall
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #67 on: Feb 04, 2020, 08:10 AM »
Amazing, I know fish in the Amazon do that with falling fruit and nuts.

A roadkill animal hung over a brook with natives works great to concentrate them as the maggots fall

nature IS pretty amazing, I was blessed as a young man to spend most of my waking hours in the woods and on the water...

Roadkill .. chumming in it's purist form!
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #68 on: Feb 04, 2020, 08:14 AM »
I’ve spent countless hours doing the same. I’ve been fortunate to never live in a place that I couldn’t walk to the river in the yard. I’ve lived on the Bellamy, the cocheco, the isinglas, and the Salmon Falls. Something about Rivers does something for me that waterbodies never can or will. I prefer Rivers when fishing and think if you can master those it makes bodies of water a breeze, funny how the animals gravitate to them as well. It’s something about how it’s just everchanging and brings new opportunities each second that I love
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #69 on: Feb 04, 2020, 08:30 AM »
I’ve spent countless hours doing the same. I’ve been fortunate to never live in a place that I couldn’t walk to the river in the yard. I’ve lived on the Bellamy, the cocheco, the isinglas, and the Salmon Falls. Something about Rivers does something for me that waterbodies never can or will. I prefer Rivers when fishing and think if you can master those it makes bodies of water a breeze, funny how the animals gravitate to them as well. It’s something about how it’s just everchanging and brings new opportunities each second that I love

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #70 on: Feb 04, 2020, 08:40 AM »
Water is life... Only 2 of my years have I lived not waterfront and I was miserable. I need to be around water and the critters that need to be around it as well.

Words to live bye today  WATER IS LIFE.. Amen brother!
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #71 on: Feb 06, 2020, 09:42 AM »
back in my youth, there was a brook that ran through the woods behind my Aunts house in Andover Mass,it was spring fed and started in the hills and ran into fish brook, which runs into the Merrimack, that brook had native brookies, I don't know if anyone else on the planet even knew it, I use to catch them all summer, one fall I got several that had distended bellies.. I kept one ( I never kept them because they were natives)to see what was up with their guts, darn thing was full of grapes... there were wild grapes ( a great deer hunting spot) that grew on the trees over head... evidently these fish were eating grapes, I never saw it again but I never forgot it either.

To add to this, Mulberries = Carp.
Just add water.

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #72 on: Feb 08, 2020, 09:03 PM »
Saltine crackers and canned tuna or mackerel mixed up works for anything

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #73 on: Feb 09, 2020, 10:41 AM »
Saltine crackers and canned tuna or mackerel mixed up works for anything

You beat me to it.  Have used crackers and tuna for years.  Little dry flakes of crackers floating thru drive the fish crazy.
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #74 on: Feb 14, 2020, 05:41 AM »
I did try the tuna and it works first Laker puked it right up I'm sold no more expensive suckers for me

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #75 on: Feb 14, 2020, 10:56 AM »
Found a blender at the dump,i throw dead shiners and a can of sardines in oil and grind em up til almost liquid.when i fished for pike it was dynamite.works great for trout and pannies too.WARNING!!!dont use your wifes blender for this.!!!the couch is not as comfortable as you think!

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #76 on: Feb 14, 2020, 11:09 AM »
There are probably as many recipes for chum mix as there are anglers who use chum when fishing.
I do prefer to chum when possible and legal, but it's not always possible.

I found some cheap stinky chum at Family Dollar...$1 can of sardines (in brine). Each can has 2 sardines, which look better suited as cat food than human food, but they fall apart quite easily, and spread out nicely when dropped down a hole.

The only down side is that if you fish from that same hole your line will pick up and HOLD that stink!!!!
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #77 on: Feb 14, 2020, 11:23 AM »
There are probably as many recipes for chum mix as there are anglers who use chum when fishing.
I do prefer to chum when possible and legal, but it's not always possible.

I found some cheap stinky cum at Family Dollar...$1 can of sardines (in brine). Each can has 2 sardines, which look better suited as cat food than human food, but they fall apart quite easily, and spread out nicely when dropped down a hole.

The only down side is that if you fish from that same hole your line will pick up and HOLD that stink!!!!

You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right? 
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #78 on: Feb 14, 2020, 11:40 AM »
You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?

LMAO....
Just add water.

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #79 on: Feb 14, 2020, 11:53 AM »
You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?

Haha that just made my day!

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #80 on: Feb 14, 2020, 11:55 AM »
You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?


Oh my god i just shot my drink out of my nose after reading that don't you love auto correct!!
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #81 on: Feb 14, 2020, 12:16 PM »
Haha, he found it in the men's room, I hope.

I'm making some for Pike fishing next weekend.  So far I have canned Mackerel, canned tuna (in oil), anchovies (in oil) and whatever is dead in my bait bucket.  Will toss those in a blender & hold my nose.  Bought some small plastic containers like used for jello shots.  Will fill a bunch of those, cover & throw in the freezer.

I bought a cylinder-shaped wire bird feeder to place a few of the cubes in.  Tie the feeder to a string & drop it down the hole in the middle of my baits.

I'm sure if some of the "special sauce" Tim found was added it could increase the attraction but I won't be looking too hard for any.

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #82 on: Feb 14, 2020, 12:20 PM »

Oh my god i just shot my drink out of my nose after reading that don't you love auto correct!!

that's what happens when someone spends too much time on porn sites and their phone does the thinking!
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #83 on: Feb 14, 2020, 12:20 PM »
You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #84 on: Feb 14, 2020, 12:25 PM »
i ground up dead bait numerous times and sent them down the hole never noticed that i did any good? but the next day it seemed to turn on or draw in the catties meow big ones thought it would turn on pike but catfish fo sure
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #85 on: Feb 14, 2020, 02:00 PM »
You might wanna proof read that one... After all, punctuation and grammar is so important right?

If I can buy they cheap stinky kind there I must be in the wrong store..... Thanks for the laugh!
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #86 on: Feb 14, 2020, 02:02 PM »
Haha, he found it in the men's room, I hope.

.....I'm sure if some of the "special sauce" Tim found was added it could increase the attraction but I won't be looking too hard for any.

I can be desperate to go fishing, but not THAT desperate!  ;D

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #87 on: Feb 14, 2020, 02:24 PM »


You count your years by the Winters.

It’s not being Cocky if you can back it up.

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Re: Chumming
« Reply #88 on: Feb 14, 2020, 02:50 PM »


  You have been doing that a lot lately pal.
You better slow down before you hurt yourself...       ;D ;D
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Re: Chumming
« Reply #89 on: Feb 14, 2020, 02:57 PM »
I have High T Dom! ;)
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