RE: Good Home Made CHUM
It all depends on the species you want to catch. Fish based chums won't do you a lot of good if you are fishing for Sheepshead or Drum. Crab. shrimp, barnacle, clam or oyster chum works best for them. Octopus works fine too but it is mighty hard to catch an Octopus when you need one inshore. Redfish and Trout respond better to crustacean based chum than to fish based. Oh yeah, Pompano like crustacean based chum too. Actually, most fish respond well to it. Bluegills and Shellcrackers love crab chum.
If anybody is interested, I'll post a list of ingredients for "Capt. Ken's Elixir," along with tools you will need to make it. "Capt. Ken's Elixir" is sort of a "dipping sauce" for specially modified jigs and flies. Bigger batches make great chum.
Soaking chunks of cinder block in Menhaden oil gets fish attention without feeding them. You won't need a chum bag either. With cinder block, you chum from the bottom up. I do the same thing with crab and shrimp chum when fishing for Sheepshead and Drum.
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