Chumming Successes in Salt Water - Need feedback

Sharks...lots of them

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

inshore

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.

It works well at the rigs offshore but I have never tried it much inshore.

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I know a top red fish tourney guy does the same thing

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Oh wreely? you got my attention.

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.