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Roe bags

58 (29.6%)

Chunks

138 (70.4%)

Total Members Voted: 192

[kodiak]

I like using bags myself. Last longer and cleaner to handle when on the river.

[fishbuster]

I'm usually a roe bag guy but the last couple times out I switched to little pieces of boraxed roe and it's proven to be successful.  Roe bags have worked very well in the past for me, but with the water being so low and clear I thought I would go real small and light.  Today I was able to land 6 spring jacks and one spring about 15lbs.  No coho today.  Every one else that I could see were catching or S? pinks.  A very nice day on the river.

[silverslab]

Nitrile gloves are the best for roe, you can even cut of the fingers and wear those on your roe hand while fishing, keeps the roe and dye of off you and your smell off the roe

[BigCoho]

Hey Rod, were do you get the Nates Bait Cure?

[adriaticum]

[scruffy]

Doesn't anyone use nitrile gloves? 

l use them when the skein's aren't cured yet as anything on your hands can't taint them ,after curing though there's so much chemicals in there i don't think it matters,when i do singles i also rinse my eggs off in ice cold water to 1 stop the bleeding and 2 to remove any of the cure so their clean and i've never had any problems over the years.
The only other time i rinse my eggs is if there's some blood still on them and i usually do that @the river not a lot water just enough to remove the blood.

[HOOK]

C_Crazy - I normally cut my skeins into peices after i have cured them because i just find it easier then doing it before however if i wasnt going to srinse them then i would probably cut them all up first. who knows it might just be a pain either way LOL

I have 6 huge spring skeins to do up now 

[bentrod]

Sportco or outdoor emporium in Seattle.  Also on line http://www.natesbaitfishingproducts.com/

Its a very crappy website, but s great cure and the best herring cure on the market.  

[Matt]

Will the cure actually penetrate into the middle of a large whole skein?  I've been cutting mine up into bait-sized chunks first, then curing them in a jar for a couple hours, drying them a couple hours until they're tough and them freezing them in borax.

[Matt]

anyone?

[Fish Assassin]

Will the cure actually penetrate into the middle of a large whole skein?  I've been cutting mine up into bait-sized chunks first, then curing them in a jar for a couple hours, drying them a couple hours until they're tough and them freezing them in borax.

Yes, I use a brine cure and it penetrates the whole skein. After the skein been in the brine for a while I drain and cut it into chunks for drying overnight.

[Matt]

Do you mean letting the juice out in and "marinade" in Procure or Pautzkes or do you mean actually making a sugar/salt +_________ +water brine?

[Fish Assassin]

Actual brine of salt, dye and _____

[Matt]

_________? = what?   

[Matt]

Where can I get larger sections of mesh to wrap up roe bags the size of billiard balls for sturgeon?  Would Fabric-land have it?