Using chum to attract perch?

[Bggeary]

I know rice works. Not 100% must it does work.

[penalty box]

I was perching one day earlier this year with no success, our last stop we fished for about 1 hour and had 3 perch, we were tired of moving and just stayed there after about another 30 minutes it was up and down, no motor running, no chumming, nothing stirring up the bottom. we had our 60 fish in a hurry go figure. I'm not saying that stuff doesn't work, maybe the fish just turned on it was around 7pm.

[Redeyedrooster]

I have been using 10 heavy stainless steel washers (about 1.5 inches) tied to 20lb test every 3 inches or so and dropped to the bottom for years.
I tie them to the closest cleat. When the boat moves up and down from the waves, they make a metalic clicking noise as they hit the bottom.

I figured a massive clank from the big "perch callers" was too much for the fish when it got close.

Give it a try.

PS. it is cheap....

[miso_ohio]

I remember a certain boat that posts on here from time to time used a red block as an attractant. I don't know if it helped but it was one of those big blocks you use for building and it was painted red with a rope tied around it. It was a lot harder to pull that up then the anchor was and I think the captain of the boat use to get a good laugh out of watching me bring it up.

I thought about using a more classic chum like they would use in Europe which would consist of fresh bread flake (pulverized in a food processor) with some pulverized shiners in it left over from a trip. My concern is the current at the bottom of the lake could disperse the chum over a fairly large are making it useless to me. I still want to try it but have reservations about putting shiners in my food processor, the shiner flavored bread particles should get whatever is down there feeding but with my luck it would be a fish ohio goby.