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

[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.