A couple weeks ago I cured up about 15 pounds of eggs and stored them in a cold bev. fridge for use over the next month or so. To cure, I used the Juice-in-the-jar method for about a week, then air-dried until fairly tacky, the packaged in ziplocs with Borax.

Well, I grabbed some to fish with today and in the interim the eggs juiced out to the point where all my Borax is now a Egg-Borax goo pattie in each bag. Anyone have a good recovery method for bait in this state? I haven't had this happen before.


Rinse, re-dry then re-bag all of them?

Take chucks of gooey borax off then re-pack with fresh?

Thanks for any replies, off to the store for more Borax.

Riley: Don't mess with them. The more you work them the more you're likely to compromise their potential. Use them as is and the "goo" will milk out after a cast or two.

When I use the jar method I store in the fridge in all the juices. If I want dryer eggs I put in borax the night before I go fishing.

As for how to fix your current eggs, sorry I can't help.

Shake off the gloopy borax and try and find just the clusters.Seperate the two then repack in fresh borax.Sounds like you did not have enough borax in the bags the first go around.If the egg's have more juice then the borax can absorb you will end up this way.Always put more borax then egg's.
Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

P.S. In the future pack egg's in bag's then put in borax the night before your trip.

Thanks for replies Guys.

I have already picked off the Boragoo and replaced with fresh stuff. They look like they will fish fine.

I did use 2-3 cups of borax per-baggie on semi-dry eggs, and was surprised to see that even after drying out the eggs still juiced out to the point where they made a whole bag of goo. It was clearly a moisture content issue. Anyways, disaster averted.