Chum grinder
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Cuba Libre
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Here is a little advice from New Zealand where they call "chum" burley....
Here is a good home made tried and proven burley recipe
On a Thursday Night
Take 40kg of crayfish bodies
Put them through a hammer and mincer process at the cost of much time and pain
Put minced crayfish into a 40 - 60l bucket
Add a litre of tuna oil
Add a bunch of left over potatoes, rolled oats, etc and some sand
Add water to get a good consistancy
Find out that you don't have any room in the freezer as SWMBO has filled the damn thing up
Put lid on bucket and put bucket in back of boat for early Saturday fishing trip
Watch unforecast winds rise to gale force late Friday and stay that way all weekend.
Leave bucket in back of boat for a week of 25deg+ hot sunny days whilst waiting for following saturday
Stay well away from boat and complain to SWMBO that she needs to give the dog a bath to get that bad smell out of the house
4:30am Sat morning ask mate to take cover off the boat whilst you go upwind to hook the trailer onto the car
Explain to mate about the dogs odor problem and accuse him of not holding his booze whilst he is throwing up in your driveway
Launch boat with all windows, covers etc open and head out 20 miles into the middle of Hawkes Bay
Start to drift and ask mate of he would mind dispersing the burley with the old cup whilst you find something vitally urgent and important to do at the other end of the boat
Explain to mate that death threats are no way to talk to the skipper, and that you never keelhaul the skipper, only the crew
Put peg on nose and start dispensing the burley
Watch huge school of Kingis appear at back of boat only a few minutes after starting the burley
Tell mate that you have found the ultimate burley recipe and are going to patent it
Scramble in tackle box for a jig and then watch Kingis swim away as soon as you have it tied on
Yell at mate to start burleying again to bring them back
Watch humugus F. Off Mako come in to have a chew on your prop
Yell at mate to stop burleying
Get out shark trace and prepare to catch Mako almost the size of your boat
Call wife to check life insurance and book appointment with shrink
Tell cowering mate not to be a wimp and come back out of the cabin to watch you slay this humungus Mako
Hook mako
Watch Mako race around the back of the boat and do a somersalt within a metre of the side of your boat
Wipe splashed water off face, change underwear, call wife to check the life insurance and shrink appointment again
Tighten down drag and tell mate that you are going to slay this beast and he better be on target with the 2ft long fixed head gaff
Secretly apply extra thumb pressure to spool of reel and hope like hell that this fish breaks off before you get it anywhere near you pride and joy again
Bust off the Mako and explain to mate that the bloody line must have had a weak spot in it
Start engine and head back to shore at high speed whilst explaining to mate that your old rugby injury is starting to play up because of the pressure you put on that very lucky bad boy Mako, and you need to get back in before your back locks up solid
Stop just off the shore
Remember that you still have a 50l of burley to dispense
Consider taking it home again, but decide that no dog could ever smell that bad
Tell mate to tip the lot over the side and appologise that you can't help due to your crook back
Get home and explain to wife that you hooked a bloody whale and that your mate was an absolute wimp about gaffing it and hence it got away
Read in local paper on Monday morning about a suspected sewerage leak off a popular swimming beach and that it had attracted several large Mako sharks to the area. Wisely, the council advises against collecting shellfish from this area for a few weeks
Cancel patent plans, start looking for a bigger boat, and a new mate who will go fishing with you
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Here is a good home made tried and proven burley recipe
On a Thursday Night
Take 40kg of crayfish bodies
Put them through a hammer and mincer process at the cost of much time and pain
Put minced crayfish into a 40 - 60l bucket
Add a litre of tuna oil
Add a bunch of left over potatoes, rolled oats, etc and some sand
Add water to get a good consistancy
Find out that you don't have any room in the freezer as SWMBO has filled the damn thing up
Put lid on bucket and put bucket in back of boat for early Saturday fishing trip
Watch unforecast winds rise to gale force late Friday and stay that way all weekend.
Leave bucket in back of boat for a week of 25deg+ hot sunny days whilst waiting for following saturday
Stay well away from boat and complain to SWMBO that she needs to give the dog a bath to get that bad smell out of the house
4:30am Sat morning ask mate to take cover off the boat whilst you go upwind to hook the trailer onto the car
Explain to mate about the dogs odor problem and accuse him of not holding his booze whilst he is throwing up in your driveway
Launch boat with all windows, covers etc open and head out 20 miles into the middle of Hawkes Bay
Start to drift and ask mate of he would mind dispersing the burley with the old cup whilst you find something vitally urgent and important to do at the other end of the boat
Explain to mate that death threats are no way to talk to the skipper, and that you never keelhaul the skipper, only the crew
Put peg on nose and start dispensing the burley
Watch huge school of Kingis appear at back of boat only a few minutes after starting the burley
Tell mate that you have found the ultimate burley recipe and are going to patent it
Scramble in tackle box for a jig and then watch Kingis swim away as soon as you have it tied on
Yell at mate to start burleying again to bring them back
Watch humugus F. Off Mako come in to have a chew on your prop
Yell at mate to stop burleying
Get out shark trace and prepare to catch Mako almost the size of your boat
Call wife to check life insurance and book appointment with shrink
Tell cowering mate not to be a wimp and come back out of the cabin to watch you slay this humungus Mako
Hook mako
Watch Mako race around the back of the boat and do a somersalt within a metre of the side of your boat
Wipe splashed water off face, change underwear, call wife to check the life insurance and shrink appointment again
Tighten down drag and tell mate that you are going to slay this beast and he better be on target with the 2ft long fixed head gaff
Secretly apply extra thumb pressure to spool of reel and hope like hell that this fish breaks off before you get it anywhere near you pride and joy again
Bust off the Mako and explain to mate that the bloody line must have had a weak spot in it
Start engine and head back to shore at high speed whilst explaining to mate that your old rugby injury is starting to play up because of the pressure you put on that very lucky bad boy Mako, and you need to get back in before your back locks up solid
Stop just off the shore
Remember that you still have a 50l of burley to dispense
Consider taking it home again, but decide that no dog could ever smell that bad
Tell mate to tip the lot over the side and appologise that you can't help due to your crook back
Get home and explain to wife that you hooked a bloody whale and that your mate was an absolute wimp about gaffing it and hence it got away
Read in local paper on Monday morning about a suspected sewerage leak off a popular swimming beach and that it had attracted several large Mako sharks to the area. Wisely, the council advises against collecting shellfish from this area for a few weeks
Cancel patent plans, start looking for a bigger boat, and a new mate who will go fishing with you
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Barnacle Bill
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Wife's food processor, when she is out shopping, might work? 
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Need a new fishing partner, wonder if prawn heads will work
instead of crawfish bodies?...........BB
..Need a new fishing partner, wonder if prawn heads will work
instead of crawfish bodies?...........BB
Fish-Hunter
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I picked up a 'LaCuisine #10 Hand Operated Meat Grinder' at Island Outfitters (Victoria) 40 bucks and worked great!!!
Great idea!!! Chum Capsules (Chum-sages), Time release action, clean and easy to store and use.
Humor aside, I have always thought that buying an old meat grinder at a garage sale, and dedicating it to grinding up fish/shellfish scraps and making a slurry that you place into say an old yogurt container and then freeze, effectively making a chum-sicle. Use a container that produces a frozen chum-sicle that fits into a bait cup/bag, dunk frozen as it will thaw out in the water and release the scent.
I would imagine that if you had the constitution, you could also grind up the fish scraps and render them down to fish oil, then use the concentrate to add to subsequent chum slurry before freezing them.
FH
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