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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: jessie88 on January 07, 2017, 10:33:18 AM

Title: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: jessie88 on January 07, 2017, 10:33:18 AM: is there anything people use on the ice for bringing em in? ive heard people drop like creamed corn n stuff like that. does that actually work?
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: Skillet on January 07, 2017, 10:40:13 AM: Assuming it's legal where you'll be fishing, if you're fishing shallower water I've used finely crushed eggshells with decent results for panfish. Haven't chummed in deeper water through the ice.
Good luck-
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: jessie88 on January 07, 2017, 10:52:06 AM: interesting. and i didnt know you possibly couldnt in the freshwater lakes around her for panfish? you said assuming its legal, i was going to try on moses or the seep lakes.
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: Skillet on January 07, 2017, 10:58:41 AM: Does not appear to be legal on Moses, Potholes or the seep lakes. It is legal on Banks Lake tho.
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: Angry Perch on January 07, 2017, 11:50:51 AM: Skillet, were eggshells an attractant, or to light up the bottom to silhouette fish under the hole?
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: Skillet on January 07, 2017, 11:59:36 AM: An attractant. It is my assumption they looked like baitfish scales or plankton of some sort.

Good idea to use as a contrasting background, especially if I ever get to spear pike from a dark house... That looks like a hoot.
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: Angry Perch on January 07, 2017, 12:17:09 PM: I've been in a darkhouse, but never got a northern. It is so cool. It's like looking down at a tv.
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: Bullkllr on January 07, 2017, 12:27:17 PM: I have had good success chumming perch (where legal) with a can of cat food or cheap tuna. I poke a few holes in the can and tie a line (cuttyhunk) and a couple oz of weight. Drop it down at least half way to the bottom and give it a yank every once in a while. Most of the perch have chunks of it in their gullet. This is from a boat. No experience through the ice.
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on January 07, 2017, 02:44:13 PM: Quote from: Angry Perch on January 07, 2017, 12:17:09 PM
I've been in a darkhouse, but never got a northern. It is so cool. It's like looking down at a tv.

One of the few distant neighbors we have lived in Montana and tell some great funny stories of spearing Northerns. I would be a.hoot to do!!!!
Title: Re: chumming for perch/bluegill/walleye
Post by: fish vacuum on January 07, 2017, 05:02:10 PM: Quote from: jessie88 on January 07, 2017, 10:52:06 AM
interesting. and i didnt know you possibly couldnt in the freshwater lakes around her for panfish? you said assuming its legal, i was going to try on moses or the seep lakes.
Only legal if specified for the lake in the regs book.