I'm not the biggest fan of chumming unless I'm in Florida or some other place where there's no fish.
The fish up here are in the holes or out on top sunning themselves and chumming hasn't produced for me as much as it's brought in the seals and then there go ALL the fish.
One sure fire way to bring out a cabezone or lingcod and sometimes a vermillion if you're deep enough is to put back an abalone that you've decided is too small or whatever. If the ab isn't bleeding from the stab wound you gave it, or even if it is, there's something about a just replaced ab that drives the cab's nuts. Just put the thing down, let it get it's grip, move off or go back up and then come back quick and if the whole ab isn't gone, there's a cab planning on it within two feet.
And now you know another competitive spearo trick.
