YBD - Rethink your position. "I had been taught by old school egg guides, one of which is a Pautzke pro-staffer that an egg attack is sticktly the fish trying to kill and destroy the eggs to ensure survival and eliminate competiton for that particular fish's genes. Also that the deeper red eggs had a higher chance of survival and that was why these certain fisherman wanted a red cure."

Salmon aren't that smart. They don't associate little round red/orange blobs floating downstream as the next generation of fish. They don't think it through. If they did, we'd never catch one. Salmon associate free-drifting eggs as food. They ate eggs when they were fry/smolt, and they do it again when they're adults. It ain't that complicated.