Is thier anything else i can use instead of chum?

Question

I dont have any chum so i was wondering was thier anything else i could use to thow into the water instead of chum like dog food or something?

Answer 1

chicken or fish blood you can get at any butcher.or make your own chum with stuff u might have at home tuna fish or any canned meatold cheese,chicken livers,canned peas etc itll work ive done it and caught blues the size of tuna

Answer 2

Fish oil has long been used to supplement a good chum bag or, in some cases, instead of chum. Putting a fish-oil slick behind your boat offers several advantages in addition to the obvious scent trail to attract predators. Perhaps the most important added advantage concerns the visibility of your baits. Fish oil takes the friction off the surface of the water. When deployed correctly, it leaves a calm, slick area behind the boat, allowing the angler to easily see all baits on the surface as well as any fish in the spread.
Typically, kingfish anglers put the oil into an intravenous (IV) bag/dripper system placed on the outside of the boat. Problems with this system include the fact that these bags hold only one quart of oil, and refilling an already used IV bag becomes messy and wasteful. Storage is also problematic; fish oil feels and acts like grease and smells terrible. Fish-oil scent lasts forever. Consider anything it comes in contact with totally ruined. I've solved these problems by using a fish-oil dispenser made of PVC pipe and fittings with clear tubing that holds about a gallon. Fish oil can be stored in the dispenser between fishing trips, and a T-valve sets the desired rate of flow. Such a unit should be mounted on the back of the transom (outside the cockpit) and the tube run out of the splash well alongside or between the engines. While slow trolling, the oil is dispersed by mixing with turbulent water around the propellers. The total cost of this unit runs about the same as the IV bag from a medical supply store.
Some boats also mount an electric meat grinder to a rod holder and grind fresh chum as needed.

Answer 3

chum is any thing used to attract fish by scent or food!
Try cooked scented rice!





To the thumbs down I guess you are uneducated on the use of chum and what chum and chumming is and by the way rice makes a very good chum!


Rice chum does work in saltwater too! I cook rice in fish oils or whatever flavor of choice but for saltwater mehaden oil or homemade oil. I use 2 to 4 boxes of minute rice to make this!
I take a box of rice cooked and scented and mix ground fish,shrimp or squid with it and mash to put in chum bag the the rest I use to broadcast into the water a handful at a time!
I let rice dy after cooking put in buket or some where not have odor or mess and mix in more fish oil until completely swollen and have slick on top.I drain extra off and save liquid and freeze until needed!

Answer 4

Are you fishing in Saltwater? If so, 6-8 cans of "fishy" catfood, mixed with a "dry" bag of Salmon/Fishy catfood, & some pogey/menhaden oil, works great!


Hey Ingun I've never used fragrant rice as a chum. Does it work in saltwater? How do you "displace" it? Sounds alot easier than "squishing" catfood & smelly pogey oil together & then freezing it! (lol)


Thanks for the cool info on "Rice chum" Ingun.

Answer 5

Just fish. Forget chum. It's not necessary.

Answer 6

um chumming is usually saltwater, so you can troll w/ the boat.

Answer 7

Try ur own food

Answer 8

sweetcorn , bread , worms , maggots , good luck catching have fun