Inshore Chum?
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Inshore Chum?
Anyone ever chum? I don't mean offshore, but what about inshore for reds/specks? If so, how do you do it? Does it work?
Don't think it would attract specks directly, mabey reds. The trout may come to all the attracted bait though.
I've chopped up dead shrimp, and combined it with some marsh mud to help me sling it and to sink it.
During the summer it will bring in hordes of piggies, croaker, and tourist trout. You can get enough BTB bait for a whole weekend in an hour or so. I do this over oyster reef and use small barbless hooks w/ fresh dead. I have gotten some nice runs, but they came off, and most of the time the little ones won't let it sit. After a while there will be so many you don't have to cast, just lower bait into water. Slaughter-pole style!
In the winter once the bait stealers are gone, this is a good way to get black drum and sheephead. Chum over oyster reef again.
I've chopped up dead shrimp, and combined it with some marsh mud to help me sling it and to sink it.
During the summer it will bring in hordes of piggies, croaker, and tourist trout. You can get enough BTB bait for a whole weekend in an hour or so. I do this over oyster reef and use small barbless hooks w/ fresh dead. I have gotten some nice runs, but they came off, and most of the time the little ones won't let it sit. After a while there will be so many you don't have to cast, just lower bait into water. Slaughter-pole style!
In the winter once the bait stealers are gone, this is a good way to get black drum and sheephead. Chum over oyster reef again.
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Can't resist this one
Don't laugh at this now. Fresh chopped up lady fish will draw reds in from a long way off. Don't ask me why they like it but they do. It leaves a noticiable, bloody slick in the water. Tried the shrimp thing once. Reelworld is right...hardhead feeding frenzy!
Re: Can't resist this one
Watch out for the sharkswaterman69 wrote:Don't laugh at this now. Fresh chopped up lady fish will draw reds in from a long way off. Don't ask me why they like it but they do. It leaves a noticiable, bloody slick in the water. Tried the shrimp thing once. Reelworld is right...hardhead feeding frenzy!