Homemade scent's

[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