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FoldCatOne · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 3:20 pm Post subject: Chumming

I've been watching a youtube channel about Key West Kayak Fishing and whether they are fishing inshore from a bridge/pier or on patch reefs or near mangroves on the flats the first thing they do is break out the chum bag and the 6 pound block of frozen chum, aka misc fish guts and pieces.

Is it legal in Texas and if so, why isn't it used. One would think it effective along the crash channels or intracoastal. Anywhere with a drop off and moving water. Possibly hang one from the bridge over Packery channel on an outgoing tide.
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 3:54 pm Post subject:

chumming is legal.
Taught my daughters to fly fish when they were very young by starting them in my lap to tie fake corn kernels with yellow sparkle chenille.
Took them to the Guadalupe or Blanco SP, chummed up trout with corn, and they caught fish.

smfiredog · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:36 pm Post subject:

I have chummed for redfish and drum successfully numerous times. I usually place several chum bags out in different areas and come back to them later in the day, usually to find drum and or redfish around them especially when I take kids or novice anglers along. However sometimes find gafftop, skipjack, loads of pinfish, and hardheads around them also. I have found that a mixture of cracked crab and shad work best for redfish and drum and seem to draw the least amount of bycatch. Give it a try and I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Just remember dead water is still dead water no matter how much you chum.
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FoldCatOne · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:38 pm Post subject:

Didn't know chumming was legal for freshwater gamefish. I guess it might be since the put out smelly stuff for catfish.
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FoldCatOne · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:40 pm Post subject:

Cast net and small pinfish, croaker, mullet = bait. When I was a kid they would mount a hand meat grinder and grind misc fish parts and menhaden for bluefish in Chesapeake bay. Guess who got to turn the handle??
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FoldCatOne · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:44 pm Post subject:

How did you suspend the chum bags to be left for later??
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OneMoreCast88 · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:34 pm Post subject:

Hey Foldcat,

I moved down to South Florida a few years ago and I have noticed everyone down here uses chum while fishing.

They mostly use it when they are fishing for yellow tail and mangrove snapper. The snapper respond well to it and a common fishing tactic is to drift a small baited and weighted hook in the chum line.

Another reason why its popular down here is because of the water current. It rips down here! Here in South Florida the current is moving very quickly trough the intercoastal and offshore. And in the keys its shocking how much water is moving through the bridges. So that means the current really broadcasts the chum.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:41 pm Post subject:

Mentioned before, I've eaten Beach Cliff in LA hot sauce on crackers for fishing lunch staked out in the bottleneck. I always pour the oil on the water when I first open the can, and throw out some cut bait. A couple of times that's turned into redfish.

deputydawg · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:20 pm Post subject:

Just did it the other day offshore at a set of state rigs. Tied off on one and chummed the mangroves up with small bits of shrimp drifting into the next rig. A hook with a dead shrimp fooled 7 or 8 big ones and we got broke off in the rig several more times. It was a blast!

Hoggeman · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 9:13 pm Post subject:

I chum during the Winter for Redfish

Rig three poles with a Carolina rig and a use small circle hooks.
Thaw a box of sardines cut in 1/2 then cut the tail again into 3 pieces
Fish with the heads and hook through the eye

set up on a wind blown shoreline

Use a dog ball thrower to launch about 10 chunks towards the shore

then cast your baits into the chum zone

re-chum every 10 mins if no action within 30 minutes move and set up again

I tried chumming for flounder using oysters mixed with rabbit food at the Port Mansfield jetty in a chum basket no real luck

i have used buckets of pigs blood in the surf just made it scary

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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:00 pm Post subject:

Chumming?!?!?!

Isn't that what the tourists do on the headboats over the summer?

FoldCatOne · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 2:34 pm Post subject:

yuck yuck yuck.
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BayFly · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:04 pm Post subject:

Cudakilla · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:58 am Post subject:

We chum a lot on the pier. It works really well until potlickers try and get in on the action. Smile

Here's a link to my new website with an article about it.

https://cudakilla.com/?target=news_messages
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