Chicken for bait

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If you are using breast cut into 1" pieces it should stay on fairly well. There are many things you can flavor it up with and several of them should toughen the chicken if it marinates for a while; overnight to a couple of days is good. The longer you keep it the drier the flesh becomes and then it doesn't stay on the hook well at all. You can hardly get a hook through it but then it rips out easily with the grain. I never heard of the tuna oil trick; I'll have to try it. Here are some other things I have tried: strawberry jello, vanilla, garlic salt, olive oil, and chicken liver blood/juice. They all work and the art comes in in mixing and matching combos. Fresh garlic or powder will work but I think the salt helps to toughen the chicken pieces up. Heard cinnamon is good but I can't vouch for it and the other dozens of things people have tried. Just plain chicken works fine too. Chicken skin is supposed to stay on the hook really well if you ever get a chance to try it. The chicken works as well on a Santee as a flig. In a pinch it should work well on a plain circle hook. Good luck and have fun.