I've said this before, and others have questioned it... (as have I also)... but most any lure or cut bait I've ever used for top water fish (blues, stripers etc.) works better when sprayed with WD40. Yes, I know there's no reason on earth why it should work, but it does.. This is fish we're talking about... not rocket scientists...maybe their scales squeek and they need to oil them...hell, I don't know... I just know it works.
Never used it on bottom feeders, so cannot comment on it.
My favorite flounder chum is rice, corn and ground up mackrel, frozen into those nice round paper containers that beer used to come in from a bar. Make 1/3 proportions of each ingredient, drain well, pour into the containers and freeze during the winter... come spring time you just take one or two containers with you, peel off the paper from the frozen log, place into your round chum pot that just happens to be the exact size needed for those logs to fit into, drop one over the side and wait for the flounder to follow the scent to your line. This actually also works well with summer Fluke, although it's funny that i don't see more people chumming for them. Most people drift for them but chumming will produce on days when there's hardly any drift and most people are getting skunked.
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