Thoughts: Can't hurt to cure up some prawn chunks with that cure and see if it made a difference between that and uncured prawns. Next, cure some prawns in a commercial cure and see how they fish compared to your special cured prawns.

I've never really bothered to use cured prawns for winter runs, as I probably never needed to. I'll always default to sand shrimp as the go-to winter run bait. I just don't like dealing with egg goo.

Besides - you tipping your flies now with prawn chunks, or what?

Now, as for summer runs, I know that specific cured prawns are MONEY and will out fish a lot of presentations. Those fish are in warmer waters, a lot more aggressive, will chase a brightly cured prawn out of it's holding waters and will react in a positive way towards some cures over others. Boondogging or drifting bare cured prawn chunks for summer runs is the schnizzle. I use a combination of cures and some added ingredients for summer run prawns, all of which I'm not willing to divulge that information.