Whistler
08-21-2005, 01:09 PM
Original post made by Michael A. Smith(Raven10) on August 19, 2003
i met an elderly couple {in their 80s at least}bank fishing lake tawakoni this weekend.i talked to them for a few minutes to see how they were doing and if the fish were biting.they had a stringer full.when they left for the day he told me he had baited a few holes near the bank and where they were ,we caught 28 cats blues and channels in about 5 hours.the smallest we kept was about 4# and largest a 21#blue all on shad cuaght in a casting net.he gave me his recipe for chum so ill pass it on it seems to work and ill be making some soon: in a 5 gal bucket combine the following 2to3#of deer corn, 2 tablespoons of garlic powder,4tubs of chicken livers run thru a blender,and what he says is the secret 5 can of jack mackeral kind of mash the makeral up with you hands before adding it then cover it with water and stir . let it stand in the sun loosely covered for a week or till the smell gags you whichever comes first.he had his greatgrandson row out about 15 to 20 feet from shore in a little rubber boat and dump it in 3 spots about 30 yards apart parallel to shore. then he scatered some from shore with a coffe can.we did real good that night while most the others i talked to the next day got skunked.an interesting side note we had 2 stringers both of them just yellow nylon ski rope run thru the fishes gills. about midnight something grabbed one of them and tore the rope in half taking 7 good cats with it.i dont know what it was but i wasnt more than 30 feet from the tree it was tied to and didnt get there fast enough to save my fish.there were no boats near us so i figure maybe a gator or a really huge turtle????? any way good luck and good fishing
i met an elderly couple {in their 80s at least}bank fishing lake tawakoni this weekend.i talked to them for a few minutes to see how they were doing and if the fish were biting.they had a stringer full.when they left for the day he told me he had baited a few holes near the bank and where they were ,we caught 28 cats blues and channels in about 5 hours.the smallest we kept was about 4# and largest a 21#blue all on shad cuaght in a casting net.he gave me his recipe for chum so ill pass it on it seems to work and ill be making some soon: in a 5 gal bucket combine the following 2to3#of deer corn, 2 tablespoons of garlic powder,4tubs of chicken livers run thru a blender,and what he says is the secret 5 can of jack mackeral kind of mash the makeral up with you hands before adding it then cover it with water and stir . let it stand in the sun loosely covered for a week or till the smell gags you whichever comes first.he had his greatgrandson row out about 15 to 20 feet from shore in a little rubber boat and dump it in 3 spots about 30 yards apart parallel to shore. then he scatered some from shore with a coffe can.we did real good that night while most the others i talked to the next day got skunked.an interesting side note we had 2 stringers both of them just yellow nylon ski rope run thru the fishes gills. about midnight something grabbed one of them and tore the rope in half taking 7 good cats with it.i dont know what it was but i wasnt more than 30 feet from the tree it was tied to and didnt get there fast enough to save my fish.there were no boats near us so i figure maybe a gator or a really huge turtle????? any way good luck and good fishing