One of the most integral steps in shark fishing is proper chumming. Without chum, the sharks will not be attracted to your boat. If you don't have access to store-bought chum or would rather make your own, here's how.
Determine how much chum you need. For a one-day trip, you might need as much as five 5-gallon buckets of chum.
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Determine how much fish you need. One hundred pounds of fish produces about 15 gallons of ground-up chum.
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Get the fish. Whether you are buying or catching the fish, you will need a lot of it. Use small fish like herring and mackerel.
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Grind it up. With your electric grinder, grind up the whole fish into a bucket. Leave about an inch of space at the top of each bucket for freezing. Place the lid on tightly.
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Freeze your chum. Frozen chum can last a whole fishing season or more. You can even re-freeze chum that you didn't use on a trip and it will work fine.
Tips & Warnings
Place chum in a shark-resistant container like a perforated plastic bucket.
Do not use bags or other objects that sharks can bite and latch onto.
