Using chum to attract perch?

[ebijack]

I know this is not chumming, and I agree it can be messy. But fish are very nosey! 40+ yrs ago the trick was to take a white coffee cup on a string, drop it to the bottom and bang it a couple times, the white was an attractor and this used to work, no fish finders, or gps, just out where you thought you were in the right area. Most guys I know just use a light mushroom anchor or coffee can filled with cement to bang the bottom and they catch a lot of fish doing that. Fish stop biting, bang the bottom to stir mud and bring them back in. Some guys save their hardboiled egg shells and drop them to the bottom as they fall slowly, white and attract from a distance. Also frozen corn has worked well at times.

[wakina]

I don't know if they still do but Butch and Denny's bait store used to offer a perch caller made out of a pc of pipe a couple of washers and a solid rod. It works similar to the ebijack method described in his post.

Still another method used by the Oldtimers in the fifties was to take a 1 gallon clear glass water/cider jug and place a few live minnows in it with clear clean water and let it to the bottom, they claimed that it teased the perch into a feeding frenzy and kept them from wandering off. Does this work? I have no idea! But it does sound feasible. I remember one old gentleman who used jugs off both back corners of his boat.

[wayne johnson]

Perch caller for sure works everytime, all kinds of version, I seed
the boat with white rice works when perching slow down.
Wayne Reel Sport team