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Ok, let's face it "fresh bait" is only available at certain times of the year. Herring during the runs, mackeral in the spring and "maybe" poggies if you can find them later in the year. I've got almost no extra time to try to go get herring for chum and poggies are a crap shot, so that leaves mackeral as the only real source of chum for me. Now since I chunk with mackeral when I do chunk, seems like a logical choice, yet most of you seem to talk about either the herring or poggies.
Is there a reason for that? Is mackeral an acceptable choice? My thinking is grinding up the mackeral and freezing the ground up fish and juice in gallon milk jugs. Less mess that way, they have a handle to tie to, and come time to chum I could puncture the jug with a filet knife as many times as needed to allow the chum to work. Might also increase the size of some of my 3 fish frozen bundles of mackeral I normally throw in the boat if the weather looks questionable for my style of fishing. Maybe freeze up to maybe 6 fish, to allow a couple extra for adding some small pieces to the chum slick to train the fish to eat the small chunks before running out the same size piece on a small circle hook.
Does that sound like a plan? Thanks for the advise and tight lines.
ps: If we set out a really big chum slick now, think it might bring back some fish, lol.
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