The first bucket of chum was small and we got a few on balloons. On the 2nd bucket they were swarming us for as long as we wanted to be there. They were hitting everything. Bunker chunks, squid, bluefish. Once we dropped in the 2nd bucket of chum we did not need the balloons anymore. Just hooked on a piece of bait and they would take it almost immediately. Talk about screaming drag...