Homemade scent's

[Redneck]

Has any one made there own Scent's for fishing? I got some of Pro-Curs Scent's ( Butt Juice ) holy is that stuff $$$. I read about a few guy's using a light vegie oil some garlic cloves. I think I might try the oil and Garlic with some sort of fish oil. I would like to come up with some sort of a scent for bottom fishing to help tip the odds a little my way.

[macojoe]

I am not sure on what to use for sent, but as long as you make a nice cloud of stuff it will attract stuff. Here we grind up mackreal, porgys and what not, pour in 1/2 gal milk jugs and freeze, get yourself a piece of pipe say 1/2 inch, put a T on one end and sharpen the other end, get to your fishing spot, punch holes in the frozen milk jug and tie a rope on it, now you have a slow defrosting chum bucket all in one!

[Hedge]

Originally Posted by macojoe

I am not sure on what to use for sent, but as long as you make a nice cloud of stuff it will attract stuff. Here we grind up mackreal, porgys and what not, pour in 1/2 gal milk jugs and freeze, get yourself a piece of pipe say 1/2 inch, put a T on one end and sharpen the other end, get to your fishing spot, punch holes in the frozen milk jug and tie a rope on it, now you have a slow defrosting chum bucket all in one!

Whats the pipe for? Do you secure it in the water and tie the rope to that and back away and fish that area?

[Destroyer]

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.

[SkunkBoat]

in the 90's, when I used to fish for winter flounder (no reason to try anymore), I used to make chum from rice, corn, shrimp shells and the slimy clam bellies.

Start with frozen uncooked shell-on tiger prawns from supermarket. Thaw and remove shells. Make dinner with the shrimp... drink a beer....

then parboil the rice with shells in the pot. don't cook fully just halfway. let rice cool. add a can of corn and some chopped clam belly. freeze in a quart milk carton. I used a wire mesh weighted chum pot.

As for scented oils, I gave up on that. I used to buy $hedder crab oil. We did an experiment catching weakfish. When they were biting, they bit anything. WHen they weren't, they didn't

[Redneck]

Thanks guy's sounds liks you get to enjoy some top water action. Get the fish all stired up and watch them explode on a bait. I watch some of the guy's down in the southren States do that on reef fish looks like a BLAST! I fish mostly in 180'-300' for Halibut. I read a story about two old guy's after BIG Hailes they ran a can of sardiens with a few small holes in it down the anchor line every hour.

[bgreene]

I was just messing with using Berkely Menhanden oil spray into vaseline - to try to make it a longer lasting paste application.

Stripers weren't biting so can't say it made any difference ............at all.

[Hedge]

pork and beans or homemade turnip greens always cause scents, not sure they are effective for fishing though.

[Well20F]

Originally Posted by Redneck

Has any one made there own Scent's for fishing? I got some of Pro-Curs Scent's ( Butt Juice ) holy is that stuff $$$. I read about a few guy's using a light vegie oil some garlic cloves. I think I might try the oil and Garlic with some sort of fish oil. I would like to come up with some sort of a scent for bottom fishing to help tip the odds a little my way.

Can of cozy kitten cat food just poke holes in can tie a string to it and toss it over board