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squiddler · 04-11-2005, 06:12 PM

The key to chumming is keeping the chunks tiny and constant and sloooooow. Over chumming is too easy to do, and will actually do more harm than good. Fishing freaks comment about having bass in the area b4 chumming is really not accurate, cause you shouldn't be wastin anytime fishing at ALL in an area where bass aren't present. If there is a striper within reasonable distance down current from your area, chumming will draw them in. I myself chum quite a bit, and can't argue with my results so far.

I suggest chumming tiny little pieces, about 2 or 3 every 2-4 minutes, and don't alter too much from that rate. The small pieces get the fish excited, but does not fill their hunger. The smaller pieces create competition, and that turns on the natural predatory response of mineminemineminemine. Be sure to chum a bit before throwing a good size piece with a hook on it, or even better, work a lure or an eel back through the slick once fish make there presence obvious. Offshore, the chumming technique accounts for huge numbers of tuna, which have better eyesight, are faster and warier than bass, so I say chum yer ass off!!.

04-11-2005, 06:12 PM	#7
squiddler Fishy man, real fishy.... Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: above the mean high tide line.... Posts: 96	The key to chumming is keeping the chunks tiny and constant and sloooooow. Over chumming is too easy to do, and will actually do more harm than good. Fishing freaks comment about having bass in the area b4 chumming is really not accurate, cause you shouldn't be wastin anytime fishing at ALL in an area where bass aren't present. If there is a striper within reasonable distance down current from your area, chumming will draw them in. I myself chum quite a bit, and can't argue with my results so far. I suggest chumming tiny little pieces, about 2 or 3 every 2-4 minutes, and don't alter too much from that rate. The small pieces get the fish excited, but does not fill their hunger. The smaller pieces create competition, and that turns on the natural predatory response of mineminemineminemine. Be sure to chum a bit before throwing a good size piece with a hook on it, or even better, work a lure or an eel back through the slick once fish make there presence obvious. Offshore, the chumming technique accounts for huge numbers of tuna, which have better eyesight, are faster and warier than bass, so I say chum yer ass off!!.