Do you have a good recipe for making chum that will work well with Crappies?

Why not try chumming for crappie? It works in saltwater fishing, it works in freshwater fish as well.  If you start chumming, you’ll increase the size and number of fish you catch. You can use the chum fishing for crappie at night with lights.

Here’s how it works. Find a metal meat grinder. Usually, you can find them at flea markets or garage sales; no need to get fancy. For chum, you can use old meat out of your freezer, small bluegill, carp, any type of meat or trash fish you prefer, can be used. Cut the fish into chunks small enough to run through the grinder.

After the bait is through the grinder, put it in a one gallon plastic bag.  Add water until the bag is two-thirds full and freeze it.  Locate some mesh bags and you are ready to fish.  After you hit the water and get your rods and lights set up, it’s time for the chum. Put it in the water until about fourty five minutes after dark.  Place the chum in the mesh bag and lower it to the depth you think the fish will be. The chum attracts minnows and small gamefish. Once that activity starts, the larger crappie and white bass show up, and the occasional walleye and catfish.

Chumming works for me, and it seems like crappie and other gamefish are more aggressive when chum is in the water. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to make the chum, and I think it definately give the crappie fisherman an advantage. 

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