As all my fishing buddies know, I am a real believer in chum buckets. In fact, we don't leave the dock without one. Chum buckets trickle out an odor into the water currents and carry for hundreds of yards behind the boat. Bits and pieces of chopped fish, squid, muscles, clams or dried blood, decoy all the predators in the area to our hooks.

Main Entry: 3chum
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
: animal or vegetable matter (as chopped fish or corn) thrown overboard to attract fish