Successful chum recipe?

Question

Does anybody know a good chum recipe that they use with success? I trying to find the right one for me seeing as how I mostly do wade fishing.

Answer 1

I do a lot of saltwater fishing myself and use chum by the gallons. I actually make it myself and then freeze them in milk jugs.

Here's what I do; I get whatever bait and left over fish scraps and run it through a grinder. I take day old rice and fill the jug 1/2 way. I then add the ground fish to the mix. I add salt water to fill the jug just above the handle of the milk jug. I shake it up good and the freeze. After 2 hours of freezing, I'll shake it up again and then let it freeze solid.

The rice holds scent very well and makes extra chum for you when you just don't have enough bait or fish to fill it up. If you want to cover all three water column depths, ( top, mid and bottom)  just add mineral oil to it. It holds scent well too. The scented oil floats, the ground bait will float with the current mid depth and the rice sinks.

If you're after bait fish, you can do the same except substitute the rice with oat meal. ~good luck catchin'.

Answer 2

A guy I know buy birdseed and mixes it with maple syrup then puts it in a tupperware container (one of the round ones,like 2-3 inches across and 2-3 inches deep) then puts it in the freezer.

This worked very well for attracting panfish at one pond and bullhead and common carp in another.