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Chumming Successes in Salt Water - Need feedback
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:02 pm
In all my years of fishing the coast, we never used chumming as a strategy. What are some of your success stories and strategies for jetties up to offshore?
Thanks!
Thanks!
This post was edited on 7/18/14 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:09 pm to CharlesLSU
Never tried inshore chumming
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:12 pm to CharlesLSU
A guide I am reel good friends with. Chums for reds and specks.....
Ground up shrimp heads. Crab refuse.....frozen into cakes
Plop plop
I know a top red fish tourney guy does the same thing
Ground up shrimp heads. Crab refuse.....frozen into cakes
Plop plop
I know a top red fish tourney guy does the same thing
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:15 pm to CharlesLSU
sounds like a great way to catch hardheads, but I guess it could work
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:36 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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I have had success just tossing old shrimp heads and mashed crabs into the water in the marsh. To me the best spot to put them is in shallow water (where it is visible) near relatively deep moving water. Find it will attract whatever is around.
I used this technique with success during brown shrimp season growing up. After cleaning shrimp I would toss all of the shrimp heads/shells into some five gallon buckets. Then flatten them as best I could into grocery bags and freeze them. Toss about a half a buckets worth of shrimp peels on a shallow point near the opening of a bayou/pond and then hang out and see what happens. I would usually catch fish but what fish...well that was kind of random. You will always attract gar and hard heads. What you catch in between is the key. Sometimes you could fill the boat with hardheads, pinfish and small croakers other days I would hit a few nice reds and random assortment of keeper fish like drum, freshwater cats, speck/white trout, flounder, etc...
If you are doing the live/dead bait thing and don't feel like running around it can be fun.
I have had success just tossing old shrimp heads and mashed crabs into the water in the marsh. To me the best spot to put them is in shallow water (where it is visible) near relatively deep moving water. Find it will attract whatever is around.
I used this technique with success during brown shrimp season growing up. After cleaning shrimp I would toss all of the shrimp heads/shells into some five gallon buckets. Then flatten them as best I could into grocery bags and freeze them. Toss about a half a buckets worth of shrimp peels on a shallow point near the opening of a bayou/pond and then hang out and see what happens. I would usually catch fish but what fish...well that was kind of random. You will always attract gar and hard heads. What you catch in between is the key. Sometimes you could fill the boat with hardheads, pinfish and small croakers other days I would hit a few nice reds and random assortment of keeper fish like drum, freshwater cats, speck/white trout, flounder, etc...
If you are doing the live/dead bait thing and don't feel like running around it can be fun.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:51 pm to choupiquesushi
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A guide I am reel good friends with
ISWYDT
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:54 pm to TigerDeacon
Well, this is in Galveston and the chum material will be frozen shad. Comes in 21# blocks.
I was planning on putting out a floating chum bucket as well as tossing scoops over board.
I am sure we'll call up some sharks, but I find catching bigger sharks fun......
I was planning on putting out a floating chum bucket as well as tossing scoops over board.
I am sure we'll call up some sharks, but I find catching bigger sharks fun......
Posted on 7/18/14 at 12:59 pm to CharlesLSU
It works well at the rigs offshore but I have never tried it much inshore.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 1:01 pm to CharlesLSU
I use menhaden oil, flour and oatmeal chunks as a shrimp bait when throwing the net.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 1:04 pm to choupiquesushi
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I know a top red fish tourney guy does the same thing
Oh wreely? you got my attention.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 1:12 pm to CharlesLSU
not sure in your area, but down in the keys, he who has the most chum, catches the most fish.
If I want to just go out and catch something quick, Ill throw out two bags at different depths
If I want to just go out and catch something quick, Ill throw out two bags at different depths
Posted on 7/18/14 at 1:18 pm to CharlesLSU
Never done it in Louisiana, but have while fishing the Florida Keys. Grind up old fish guts and heads or shrimp, add a little water, and freeze into blocks. Find a mesh bag with kind of large holes, plop a block or two in the mesh bag and hang is overboard tied to a rope. As it thaws the pieces flutter down with the current and after a little while the food chain comes to life.
Posted on 7/18/14 at 1:40 pm to NYCAuburn
Truth. Chum bags for the win, and, live bait, thrown out periodically will get the frenzy started....
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