Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: fishman254 on October 29, 2012, 02:29:20 PM
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Sometimes you just wanna get bit, so fresh river chums fit the bill. But what scents are best to use for these hard-fighting creatures that have a toothy face that only a mother could love?
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I've only used jigs and spoons with good success - I just try to avoid the areas where a lot of chum are getting ready to spawn or are already spawned out. Haven't felt the need to use roe or anything with scents.
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Sometimes you just wanna get bit, so fresh river chums fit the bill. But what scents are best to use for these hard-fighting creatures that have a toothy face that only a mother could love?
I can't say much about using scent for dogs...I've only bought krill and anise for other species.
If I want chum and they're fresh and in a biting mood I tie on a purple jig and they slam them
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I find jigs are about the best I've ever used for chums. Tip with a chunk of shrimp/prawn. What scent should people put on the jig?
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I can't say much about using scent for dogs...I've only bought krill and anise for other species.
If I want chum and they're fresh and in a biting mood I tie on a purple jig and they slam them
Righto! I believe that cerise, purple, and hot pink, with some flash and maybe a gold-colored or silver colored head (or a painted head in one of those colors) is the best color to these hardest-fighting of all salmon.
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Hint:
I've hooked a lot of Chrome Chum Does on the Stave with little bits of my cerise colured, Krill scented coho or spring roe.
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Jigs IMO are the deadliest weapon for chum. Dont really need anything else.
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Ive also had great success with white wool.
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I find jigs are about the best I've ever used for chums. Tip with a chunk of shrimp/prawn. What scent should people put on the jig?
If you tip the jig with prawn that should provide plenty of scent. I'd avoid actually applying scent to the jig as the feathers tend to gunk up and you lose all of the action that makes a jig effective in the first place. Just my experience.
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If you tip the jig with prawn that should provide plenty of scent. I'd avoid actually applying scent to the jig as the feathers tend to gunk up and you lose all of the action that makes a jig effective in the first place. Just my experience.
Excellent point.
1. What about just to the head of the jig, and the bait that's hung on the hook?
2. If so, which scent?
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Jigs IMO are the deadliest weapon for chum. Dont really need anything else.
What style, size and color?
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the best scent is shrimp or just use roe if you are dead set on scent! Chum are relatively easy to entice a bit from. Jensen eggs are scented and work well for them. any fishy scent should cause an attraction i would assume. so you can always add a scent to your jig if you like. as long as there are no bait bans on the river you are fishing.
i have had a ton of success with colorado blades as well .
good luck. :) they fight hard.
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As others have noted, you don't really need scent to hook chums. They're aggressive and will take practically anything if placed in front of them.
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As others have noted, you don't really need scent to hook chums. They're aggressive and will take practically anything if placed in front of them.
Thanks for that feedback. But I don't want to hook chums, I want to hook MORE chums. How does that old saying go?....oh yeah, "you can never be too rich, or too beautiful, or hook too many hard-fighting chums".
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I find chum can be particular to colour. At certain times jigs of any of Pink, Chartreuse, Cerise, and Fuschia may be the killer colour.
When you get it right you will catch a chum every cast. I can't see how scent will help.
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tip the jig with a deli shrimp, that is your scent
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I find chum can be particular to colour. At certain times jigs of any of Pink, Chartreuse, Cerise, and Fuschia may be the killer colour.
When you get it right you will catch a chum every cast. I can't see how scent will help.
bang on!....... i rarely catch chum on roe and throwing on a jig is suicide for them. Find a good piece of water, i prefer nice walking speed water and stay away from moldy chum area. like seriously a decent coloured chum that hasn't spawned yet will hammer any jig in its path. Putting on ur lures/bait is half the work, finding them (literally...everywhere) and timing is the critical part, whether the bite turns on and fresh looking chum will hammer away.
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Make sure you have plenty! Ive had to cut a few out cause the fish took it down so deep. Last weekend I had a really fresh one take it down so much I couldn't see the jig! They will tear through them and chew into your line as well. If all else fails bring some pink and purple duct tape and put a few strips under the jig head and you can catch em like that too!
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Tip with small tidbits of raw prawn, the best place to get it is at Superstore, 10 bucks for a very big bag.
In all honesty, chop up your prawns into minute pieces and tie into sacks like you would roe bags, this is the best bang for your buck.
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Pre-soak your favorite color wool in your favorite scent, I use Mikes. Tie bait loop onto favorite hook and add scent soaked wool as desired.
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A jig with a chunk of a prawn is deadly for chum. Find a spot with moving or fresh fish and its going to be a fish a cast. I usually run 20lb leader when using this setup for chums. They have those dang teeth and they're so aggressive the leader doesn't scare them away.
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Pre-soak your favorite color wool in your favorite scent, I use Mikes. Tie bait loop onto favorite hook and add scent soaked wool as desired.
Great tip, I'll try that.
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Pre-soak your favorite color wool in your favorite scent, I use Mikes. Tie bait loop onto favorite hook and add scent soaked wool as desired.
Which flavor of Mike's?
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hard lemonade
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Once you find out what colour/pattern jig chums are dialed in for that day/run, not much need for scent.
Fresh run ones will hammer them pretty much non-stop.
Earlier this month while fishing for coho, I used a nightmare jig and had chums hitting it on every cast until I took it off in a hurry. ;D
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Chum, whats a Chum? I havn't hooked one this year, but getting alot of those pain in the rearend Coho! I have never fished a jig before, maybe I will give it a try! NOT! Have fun with the dogs ruff ruff! 8)
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Chum, whats a Chum? I havn't hooked one this year, but getting alot of those pain in the rearend Coho! I have never fished a jig before, maybe I will give it a try! NOT! Have fun with the dogs ruff ruff! 8)
Toot toot!
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hard lemonade
I was just ASKIN' for that reply! ;D
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Ive found that they inhale anything with pautzke cure on it. heck, you could put that cure on toilet paper or a small sponge and they will smash it ;D