I would like to lend another voice of support to the lonely Chum. I spend most of my year chasing steelhead with a flyrod but I reserve November for Chum. Maybe it is the 20 fish days or the excitement of sight fishing to pods of 100+ fish but every year about September, I start getting anxious to chase the dogs. There are few things as cool as being towed around the salt in a floattube by a big ol' buck. I focus on the salt water the first half of the month and move to the rivers in the latter half. The day before Thanksgiving this year I had two bright bucks pick up my offering and peel 150 yds. of backing off my reel in a single screaming run before breaking off. Especially noteworthy since I was horsing them hard with a 9 weight Spey rod and was fishing 15# tippet. I would not trade those two fish for anything.