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DockRat
12-09-2009, 06:50 AM
Had a bunch of Sardines, Squid, Mackerel, YF Tuna Guts that I spent a 1/2 day grinding up and filled 9 large plastic coffee cans and filled some big ziplocks with. Made over 5 gallons and put it in the garage fish freezer.

The idea was for Shark Chum.
Took a can on a San Diego offshore paddy search on a buddys boat not for shark but just for the heck of or for making bait.

We get on this nice kelp paddy so I cut some holes in the lid and toss it overboard in a net sack.

We would do a drift by the paddy and the bait would go nuts and come off the kelp and stay with the boat even 100' away from the paddy.

Mini Macs, Dines, Perch schooling around the boat.

Then I go off PV Kelp fishing and toss out the chum can over and the same results. Schools of bait behind the boat.

I read somewhere that you can lower your chum down your anchor line about 10' - 15' with a clip/ring and a rope.

By doing this the chum is under the boat and not behind the boat.

Any Chummers Out There ?

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww313/bryan2009_2009/chumchum.jpghttp://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q200/bah53/FolgersWeb.jpg DR Chum Bucket

DR

Nessie Hunter
12-09-2009, 08:30 AM
Tommy Gomes makes the best chum bucket and fish scent around. All quality stuff that actually works, and works well..
The Unibutter is killer in freshwater and saltwater...

http://www.unigoop.com/

sansou
12-09-2009, 08:49 AM
Dockrat,

No offense, but that's a messy affair and lots of work to have on the boat. Same thing with Gommes' Unibomb (it will stain your deck and hands badly, and is a PITA to deal with).

Here's what I have been using for some time now:

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk274/sansou/San%20Quintin%20September%202009/2009September16SanQuintin069.jpg


I've also noticed that plain old corn flakes will work in a pinch too. Just crumble them up and toss over by the handful right next to a paddy....it keeps the small baits interested. I tried it a few times in Baja this summer, and its a winner!

As for cheap shark chum, it used to be that you could go to Vien Dong (or the other Viet supermarkets here in SD) and buy a gallon of pig blood and a 5 gallon of fish guts and scraps for under $20. Not sure what they charge these days...

DockRat
12-10-2009, 07:02 AM
Dockrat,

No offense, but that's a messy affair and lots of work to have on the boat. Same thing with Gommes' Unibomb (it will stain your deck and hands badly, and is a PITA to deal with).
...

Yea, It was alot of work to make. The problem was the fish freezer was getting too full of bait.

As far as being messy the messy part was making the chum.

Having frozen plastic coffee cans ready to go is nice and clean.

Boat Mess ? The idea was to eliminate boat mess.

When we move we just toss it in the splashwell of my buddies 24' Ranger Bayrunner.

The frozen can keeps it clean and by switching lids when moving to another area or going home. One lid has holes one does not.

I brought home a 1/2 full plastic coffee can of chum and tossed it back in the freezer.

I going to try shorefishing for Threshers useing about a pound of frozen chum in a baggie with some small holes tied to a balloon with a 6' leader to a mackerel and letting the offshore wind take it waaaaay out.

Been seeing some Threshers of late at a 'Secret Spot' :Secret:

DR

BIGRED KILLA
12-10-2009, 01:03 PM
We have a custom meat grinder that we put in to are rod holder and we grind up everything and it just falls right off the boat works great and all the bait and calicos swim right under.




Bigred