Halibut chum question

[Ellensburg]

I didnt save any salmon carcasses this year.

Anyone have a chum recipe for Halibut with cheap ingredients that I can find locally?

I do have Pro-cure butt juice to add to the mix.

[Mfowl]

Go to an Asian Market with a seafood department. You can get sardines, herring and mackeral for pretty cheap. They sell salmon scraps at some as well.

[notellumcreek]

If you get a chance go out trout fishing prior. We gave them a try once last year and the halibut were all over some nice rainbows 

[Wetwoodshunter]

If you get a chance go out trout fishing prior. We gave them a try once last year and the halibut were all over some nice rainbows 

No doubt that trout works BUT WDFW does not allow the use of game fish as bait. If you use trout and you do not have a receipt they can ticket you, I know someone who got dinged for it last year by enforcement.

[notellumcreek]

If you get a chance go out trout fishing prior. We gave them a try once last year and the halibut were all over some nice rainbows 

No doubt that trout works BUT WDFW does not allow the use of game fish as bait. If you use trout and you do not have a receipt they can ticket you, I know someone who got dinged for it last year by enforcement.

Huh no kidding. Thanks for the heads up 

[Stein]

If you get a chance go out trout fishing prior. We gave them a try once last year and the halibut were all over some nice rainbows 

No doubt that trout works BUT WDFW does not allow the use of game fish as bait. If you use trout and you do not have a receipt they can ticket you, I know someone who got dinged for it last year by enforcement.

Per the regs, you can use salmon, herring and halibut for bait (Page 4).  It doesn't say anything about game fish (trout), seems odd that trout would be more highly regulated than salmon. 

[hunt4life]

Grind the trout up with other items and they will never know it’s trout!!

[dc]

The last time I was in SE AK, I put a laundry bag full of fish parts down on a down rigger while anchored in roughly 60 ft of water.  It was about 30 min. and the bite started.  We had halibut stacked behind the boat feeding on anything we threw at them.  I had a blast with a big white Berkley grub.

[Sneaky]

Not illegal to use game fish for bait....change my mind!

[Sneaky]

WAC 220-310-070
Statewide bait rules.
(1) It is unlawful to fish for sturgeon except with bait.
(2) It is unlawful to use lamprey as fishing bait, regardless of the source or species of lamprey.
(3) It is acceptable to use bait in saltwater.
(4) It is unlawful to chum, broadcast, feed, or distribute into freshwater any bait or other substance capable of attracting fish unless specifically authorized in exceptions to statewide rules.
(5) When fishing for trout with bait, all trout that are lawful to possess and are equal to or greater than the minimum size are counted as part of the daily limit, whether kept or released, and it is unlawful to continue to fish once the daily limit has been achieved, except that steelhead trout may be caught and released until the daily limit is taken.
(6) It is unlawful to possess or use live aquatic animals as bait in fresh water except:
(a) Live aquatic animals (other than fish) collected from the water being fished may be possessed or used as bait.
(b) Live sand shrimp may be possessed or used as bait.
(c) Live forage fish may be possessed or used as bait in the Columbia River downstream of a line projected from Rocky Point on the Washington bank through Red Buoy 44 to the navigation light at Tongue Point on the Oregon bank.
(7) Use of bait in violation of this section is an infraction, punishable under RCW 77.15.160.
( It is unlawful to possess fish taken with bait in violation of the provisions of this section. Possession of fish while using bait in violation of the provisions of this section is a rebuttable presumption that the fish were taken with such bait. Violation of this subsection is punishable under RCW 77.15.380, Unlawful recreational fishing in the second degree—Penalty, unless the fish are taken in the amounts or manner to constitute a violation of RCW 77.15.370, Unlawful recreational fishing in the first degree—Penalty.

[Limhangerslayer]

If you get a chance go out trout fishing prior. We gave them a try once last year and the halibut were all over some nice rainbows 

No doubt that trout works BUT WDFW does not allow the use of game fish as bait. If you use trout and you do not have a receipt they can ticket you, I know someone who got dinged for it last year by enforcement.

that's funny because we just talked to a game warden two weeks ago and he said use them.  Nothing wrong with it.  There's A waste law is all.  If you used a chunk and let some go to waste then you could get a ticket