the guide i hired way back then was an old guiding outfit all of which are long dead by now and thiey did indeed use chum, the filled burlap bags full of im not sure what and kept putting them out regularly to make a better experience for there customers. The local bait shop that sold him the shiners told me as well.
takes work but your clients are very successful and never know!
if i lived within 2 miles of the boat ramp like he did at lakeport on ockechobee i would have done it too. I have my own boat and fished for a couple of days without a guide and then my backup plan was this guy, wow what a difference.
Whos a good guide on rodman? shiner fishing