What are Some GOOD Chums???

[Whitefish Slayer]

I usually bake a shad and de bone it and use all the flakey meat works well... Oatmeal has good color on bottom (UNCOOKED) rice and barley cooked with a touch of herring oil is dynamite!!!!
what about everyone else? what do you all use??

what about chum bags?? ever try one??

[Rat-Man]

Sounds interesting

[mormyshka]

For whitefish - cooked rice mixed with  live waxies.
For burbot - chopped liver (salted ,chopped minnows working very well for both)

[Pail Rider]

A buddy of mine uses cottage cheese and sardines mixed together...friggin gross, but the lakers we yank up are coughing up cottage cheese 

[J_MAKI]

A buddy of mine uses cottage cheese and sardines mixed together...friggin gross, but the lakers we yank up are coughing up cottage cheese 

Sounds like a good simple baked trout recipe Just throw it in the oven or wrap in foil.

Whitefishslayer Do you usually chum when you are target Whitefish? Aslo do you do it the day of or a few days in advance?

Jeremy

[Whitefish Slayer]

Sounds like a good simple baked trout recipe Just throw it in the oven or wrap in foil.

Whitefishslayer Do you usually chum when you are target Whitefish? Aslo do you do it the day of or a few days in advance?

Jeremy

i try to chum 1 week prior to fishing them heavy!!! Once they are around i go easy on the chumming!!
Aqua-VU is going to come in handy this year to see how much is left on the bottom!!
CHEERS!!

[MACK_USCG]

Take a can of sardines (packed in water) pop a few holes in it with a knife or screwdriver, tie a 20ft piece of 10 lb test mono to it. Tie the other end to a tent stake or branch and toss that baby in the water and watch the trout come running!  Make sure you use the water packed so you don't make an oil slick in the water. I have destroyed trout using this method.  For a set up I fish the bottom with a 4 lb mono leader, small treble hook, and Powerbait nuggets (floatin kind) with the hatchery flavored in chartruese or orange.  Just add the oil, flour and frying pan and you are all set!

line set up:

main line....1oz egg sinker.....then a small barrel swivel........4lb mono line.........small treble hook with 2 powerbait(floatin) nuggets

[ice man]

home made powerbait I made once and it worked ok not great. Kept the eggs from a big rainbow and mixed in fish food, the kind they use at fish farms, looks like dog food. Hucked in a couple raw eggs all in a blender. Just added flour till it was the right consistency.

[rob-s]

maine shrimp run threw the blender. for smelt and perch

[jacksmelt71]

family dollar carries canned mackeral for$1 a can. friend of mine has used it to chum cusk, whites and smelt! works almost to good!

[ice boy19]

anyone chum for gills or perch what do you usually use ?

[brookiebomber477]

be sure to check your local regs. because chumming in maine was just banned this year...

[spartaman12]

we chum smelt with cat food or tuna fish whichever is cheaper and have very good success...it works very well to get them up near the ice

Defanitely, egg shells work too.

[GAMBELL]

Have my buddies son come out on the boat and eat Slim Jims and Honey Buns.  Let him sit for 1/2 hour in the waves and he will bring you up some chum!

[digger953]

depends on what u want to catch  i use sardines 'liver '  caned mackeral  for catfish   go to any dollar store and buy all u want

[Mainehazmt]

Ive "heard" that a partially open can of dog food works good   but chumming / baiting is illegal in Maine

[CTFishes]

I make a chum out of white rice,tuna fish in oil,seafood cat food,minced garlic and corn.Try freezing chum in ice cube trays and just drop a frozen chum cube down the hole every once in awhile.

Works great for smelt and trout here in CT.

For perch and calicos I like to save my dead shiners and dice them up into small pieces for chum.


Here is a hint: when you  order Chinese take out they always give you a complimentary pint of nasty starchy white rice.I just throw these rice pints in my chest freezer and save them for use in fish chum.

[RLWagner]

I use an onion sack with a rock in it. Then dump in oatmeal, bread slices, creamed corn, soap chips (environmentaly friendly), and a few small gills crushed under foot. Every now and then raise it to the surface and drop it back down.
It even brings in catfish by the droves, under the ice!

[jacksmelt71]

canned salted mackeral at family dollar for a $1. works for everything! stinks like hell though! cant believe people eat that stuff!

[Coldfinger007]

I use an onion sack with a rock in it. Then dump in oatmeal, bread slices, creamed corn, soap chips (environmentaly friendly), and a few small gills crushed under foot. Every now and then raise it to the surface and drop it back down.
It even brings in catfish by the droves, under the ice!

Soap chips?  I don't get it.  What does soap do for chum?

[RLWagner]

Soap chips?  I don't get it.  What does soap do for chum?

Soap chips have historically been used in the Great Lakes and connecting waterways on trot lines for cats. The soap breaks down and leaves a trail in the current that because it is made of animal or whale or similar fats, dependent upon the brand and it draws fish. They eat the stuff. My Grandpa use to do this on Lake St. Claire a long time ago and soap was the only bait they used.

[Mainehazmt]

surfactant maybe to cause the oils to spread out far? maybe ?

[scavengerj]

The ones who bring the beer