Well it seems I am going to have a good supply of eggs to cure up for this winter,

What are your favorites?

Different cures for Steelhead and Salmon, Kings vs Silvers etc.

I have used Borax and Procure, I am needing to go to a new level of expertise, so let's hear it.

BTW I read the recent post on curing, and the method looks to be an improvement, so I am working on technique as I write this, I got a suprise deposit of about 8 skiens this afternoon and started wondering what else I can do to excel.

As you can see by the overwhelming number of replys, steelheaders with their own egg cures are unlikely to "let the cat out of the bag."

Until you come up with your own or coerce someone into sharing theirs, try Amerman's, it's better than most commercially available cures. Follow his instructions to the letter and you'll be more than happy with the finished product.

Good luck.

I like Beau Mac the best

Try the cure located within tech tips on this site.

get the "egg cures" book by scott haugen, lots of good recipes in there....after you experiment with them for a while(could be several seasons depending on your time on the river and relative success) you can come up with different combinations of ingredients to form your own personalized cure(although it's probably not the first time someone has tried it, you will still feel like it's your own)...there has been a whole bunch of times where i thought i had the shiznit egg cure only to tweak it one way or another in my eternal quest for the ultimate egg cure....the moral of the story is that no matter how good your eggs are, someone else's will catch more fish

Ya Philphac is correct about getting the "egg cures" book by scott haugen it is very good.

Also I like to cure my eggs using the jar method listed on the back of the Pro Cure bottle. This will leave them very wet for Salmon under a float. If you plan on using them for drift fishing just add some Borax the night before you go to dry them up a little.

Now if I can just get the prawn thing down so I don't have to use all my eggs up on the summer runs I will be the man

Beau Mac,Red.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

P.S. The authors favorite in the book mentioned above works well just add 3 to table spoons of red dye , not cure to it.

Egg cures are almost as secret as zipper lip fishing holes...but I'll give up most of my cure(s)...

Start out with a good batch of eggs...clean the fish, clean the eggs, get all the blood out. I put them on ice in my cooler, but after putting them in plastic bags, I wrap them in newspaper or a paper bag to keep them from sitting directly on the ice.

When I get home, I rinse them again, cut the skeins in half lengthwise, and lay them out on paper to warm up and dry a bit.

Next, I really bury them in powdered Fruit Punch Gatorade...and I'm not kidding about that.

After four to eight hours, depending on the size of the eggs/skeins, most of the powder will have been sucked up by the eggs and the water coming out of them, and they are pretty much done...I put them in 20 Mule Team Borax, a few bucks for a big box in the laundry section at the grocery store.

The "secret" part comes in after the Gatorade and before the Borax, and that's what chemicals, scents, or flavors to add.

That part is trial and error, or by hook or crook, and you'd have to get some kind soul to either hook you up with a few ideas, or go by trial and error like the rest of us have.

These eggs don't last forever, but most of my bait doesn't have to, as it gets used up within a few months. I don't freeze them...I keep them wrapped in plastic, then paper, in a drawer in the fridge.

I told Parker and Kid Sauk about the GatorEggs the last time I fished with them...they laughed...but who caught the only fish that day, fellas?

As far as commercial cures go, I've always gone with Pro-Cure...seems to work fine for me, though I put it on a lot heavier than the directions call for, and rinse it off quicker than the directions call for. I'm not sure if it's due to impatience, or what, but it works for me.

Fish on...

Todd

What borax is everyone talking about? The detergent or the actual fishing type???
Thanks

shoemaker

They are one in the same

20 mule team;) they are the same just one you have to pay alot more for.

Tight lines

Kevin

It's the same stuff...unless you have more dollars than sense, don't buy borax at a sporting goods store...it's the same stuff that you can buy very cheaply by the box at the grocery store...

A friend of mine who worked at a shop (both he and the shop shall remain nameless ) said that they would go to Safeway, buy 20 Mule Team Borax for $2 a box, put it into clear bags and sell it at the store...at about a 500% profit.

Buy it at the grocery store...

Fish on...

Todd

Thanks guys. I got the right stuff then.
Just out of curiousity what does iodized salt do to eggs?

There is a little bit of a difference between the 20 mule team out of the safeway and the fishermans borax from a tackle shop.The 20 mule team in more granualar and the stuff from the tackle shop is more of a powder.Both are the same,how ever I prefere one over the other in some cases.Example,I like to use the 20 mule team when making my cures.I like the powdered fishermans style when rolling wet egg's in to get a little dryer.When winging bait the fine powdered fishermans isn't as harsh on my reels as the more sanding grit of the 20 mule team.Yes I can be a little picky at times. But Who cares when your hookin fish.
Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

strike zone

Put it into a coffee grinder and mix it super fine

LT,
Should I try and snort it while I'm @ it.I'll continue to purchase both.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

Back in my day we didn't have them fancy newfangled coffee grinders... we just used a mirror and a razor blade!

By Todd:
I had been led to belive Parkers eggs were a sure thing. HA!

They probably would have - had I even had my line in the water at the time we drifted by the little inside slot where Todd yanked out that tiny lifeless boot of a brat.

To say that was a "slow day" on the Sky, was a gross understatement.

Been there...........I'm just razzin' ya dude.