flounder chum

[catfish hunter]

what do you guys do for flounder chum,I am looking for some new ideas,I have aways just used half yellow rice and have white mixed w/ some bunker oil and clam juice and froze in 12 oz. cups so it fits into your standered chum pot.then I buy a bushell of clams and grind them up and put in the same cups.if by chance the store has some cat food on sale over the winter I'll pick up some and mix it in w/ the rice or clam .this has always helped me put some flatties in the box.any more ideas?

[JustFish]

Flounder Chum..  I don't understand that,  I understand chumming while anchored,  But are you drifting this chum?

[catfish hunter]

I am talking about winter flounder not fluke,drift for fluke anchor for flounder

[robsrodnreel]

was just talking bout this subject with a few guys from work.  cat food seemed to be used by everyone. another guy said he filled a pvc pipe with concrete (a small pipe) and ties a rope to it to "pound the bottom" everyonce in a while. guess he feels the disturbance triggers the bite...

[catfish hunter]

I use an old mushroom anchor for beating the bottom ,I tie it off on one of the cleats so it hits every time the boat rocks.I cant wait for the season to open

[woodrufflou]

winter flounder fishing is one thing i never got into. Since i just got out of high school and college i never had time in the spring. Spring was always baseball time. Im gonna have to start, is it basically the same as fluke fishing or no?

[Capt. Ed]

Hi All,

I use a mixture of cat food, boiled rice, canned corn, crushed mussels and/or clams. I freeze the mixture in baseball size shapes that fit into my chum pot. If you cannot freeze it, no worries, you will just use more. I rub shedder crap oil all over the chum pot days/weeks before. Make sure you shake the chum pot regularly, even after the bite starts.

If I am going to be in shallow water, I bring a 6 ft. piece of wood to stir up the bottom around the boat.

Here is a trick that is not too sporting but some people use. Take a 18-30 inch leader with whatever hook you are using snelled or otherwise attached to the leader. Then tie the leader off the bottom of the chum pot. A very effective, if not sporting, way to add to you catch.

Have fun,

Capt. Ed

[catfish hunter]

the old hook on the pot trick works great ,it helps on those slow days ,at least you dont have to pull up to the dock empty.

[shadyvito]

This is all news to me.  I didn't know that you chummed for flounder but I understand that.  What I don't understand is pounding the bottom whith the mushroom anchor.  Why does that work?

[catfish hunter]

flounder will come in to feed on all the little critters that you stir up

[technologist]

always found that canned corn worked as well as anything else. Whenever I caught flounder after chumming they always were filled with corn so I guess it worked.I think its because they see it better. Would always put a yellow bead above my bait when chumming with corn! Never used the corn for bait,

[catfish hunter]

I was always told corn worked cuz it was the same color as a mussle that is why we use yellow rice

[shadyvito]

I wonder how a bead-headed bugger would work after chumming.  Buggers catch anything.

[CapBob]

Give you boys the old family secret

two cans of alpo dog food, finely chopped clams, tuna oil, boiled rice, corn.....mix by hand form into log and freeze................we also put 1-2 hooks off the pot for those coming up for a free meal

[catfish hunter]

chum is cooking ,and the season is almost here ,the wife is gonna kill me when she gets home ,there is somthing about the smell of bunker oil and tuna oil cooking in a new pot.MY HOUSE STINKS

[Flukedood]

do you guys use regular chum pots or can you use something else??   am putting my shopping list together to make some chum logs..

[catfish hunter]

I use 12 oz. cups to store the logs in,I use 2 store bought chum pots and they work fine ,I put a 12 oz. wieght on the bottom of one to pound the bottom a little harder.

[catfish hunter]

I spent a couple hours sunday makin clam chum ,I made 50 logs

[catfish hunter]

nice catch ,from this year ? I have about 45 logs left and just ordered 40 gallons of bellies to make more

[catfish hunter]

You must have some freezer brother...

I run 3 most of the year between deer meet and chum and bait I aways need more room