I spend the majority of my time fishing the Puyallup these days and with the water clearing many of my fellow fishing partners are tossing eggs, with incredible results. I'm a borax guy as are many of the guys I fish with. For some reason though, they always catch fish when the only way I can do it is with corky/yarn. I know the whole bleeding your catch and keeping your hands off the eggs thing, so what is my problem. I don't seem to have a problem catching steelhead with eggs, only silvers. Is it my leader, my hook size? I usually throw a 3 foot leader and just enough lead to tick bottom every now and then. My hook size preference is a 2. I typically douse my eggs with a little special mix or anise oil. Steelhead love me but the silvers hate me. Help!

I'm a borax guy too. However, when I'm fishing for silvers, I use eggs that have been cured with pro cure....... I also sprinkle a little Slamola powder on my eggs the night before I use them. It seems to work just fine for me.

stick with your borax but next time add some cherry jello mix. try it.

Procure.

Mix a little copenhagon in them..

are you adding salt to your eggs?

Try adding MSG to some the night before. Or try a good quality galic powder. I also use a couple drops of anise to the juice when curing. It absorbs into the egg with the juice.

Fish on!!

I agree with Rich G.

i finally caught 2 silvers with the eggs i cured up, are you serious about the copenhagen thing??

i dont know about that bb but ive always wondered if i should try spittin it on em before i cast out mabye ill give it a try...

TTT