All may not be lost.

Since sockeye eggs are typically smaller, they have a higher skein to egg mass ratio. Also, if these eggs came from commercially caught fish in the saltchuck, they will be even smaller. This means there is more there to hold them together.

I'd take a bucket and cure a handful. Whatever cure you use, make it a bit more concentrated and leave it on 30% longer than you usually so. Then test them out.

If it works, big bonus on the bait scene. Sockeye eggs are money, just hard to come by. If it doesn't work, well, then you've got fifteen pounds of chum for trout/kokanee fishing on the lakes that allow chumming.

Maybe you can make some soup?

You can also use the eggs as a scent. Mash them up and:

1. Mix it with vaseline. You'll wonder why you ever spent $4 for Smelly Jelly.

2. Soak cluster sized chunks of a tight kitchen sponge, pink or white, or whatever color, and use them as bait. They're not as good as eggs, but they're a lot better than nothing, and they've saved a few of my baitless fishing days.

Whattayagot2lose?

Fish on...

Todd.