05-18-2011, 08:04 PM
Syn covered things pretty well so I won't belabor the point. I looked at your ingredients to your chum ball and I think that chum would be more likely to pull in a carp and not a striper. All that bread and corn will sure bring in carp. That being said, it probably did pull in some striper just not what you were looking for. Iamthesmf recently posted his recipe for chumb bombs. If I were going after striper I would use that recipe. If you don't have the blender and such good results can also be obtained by taking a small mesh bag and filling it with small pieces of cut up anchovie or sardines. I usually use about a 1/3 of a frozen pack of bait as cut chum, then fish w/ the rest. That'll really throw off an oil slick.
Unfortunately, I am not enough of an expert striper guy to offer lure selections to you... sorry. I know I have had consistent results with the Storm Shad swim bait and spoons, but all my top water has been done with a fly rod and that with just a reasonable amout of success.
If you want a sure fire, cheap carp chum, then use oatmeal, cream corn and a small can of pineapple juice to make chum balls. I like the balls over the broadcast corn method because you can place them very precisely and then fish right on top of them.
Later,
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Unfortunately, I am not enough of an expert striper guy to offer lure selections to you... sorry. I know I have had consistent results with the Storm Shad swim bait and spoons, but all my top water has been done with a fly rod and that with just a reasonable amout of success.
If you want a sure fire, cheap carp chum, then use oatmeal, cream corn and a small can of pineapple juice to make chum balls. I like the balls over the broadcast corn method because you can place them very precisely and then fish right on top of them.
Later,
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