I have heard everything form WD-40, Anise, Vanilla, and Almond flavoring added to egg cures to induce more strikes. Anyone ever experiment with these types of scents? If so, what were your results? I just tried an egg cure with Vanilla. Anyone ever try that for steelhead? Also, some guys tell me that the best eggs to catch steelhead are steelhead eggs, the best for kings are king eggs, etc. Do you guys find this to be true? I haven't. I've had good results with coho, king, and steelhead eggs on steelhead. What's the opinion out there? Brass

BrassonBrass,


I haven't found that to be true either. I have never had a problem inducing strikes no matter which species' eggs I use or what egg cure I use.I've never used any of those on my eggs exept the occasional dose of Anise of squirt of WD-40 on yarn, but I have used jello gelitan and borax together quite a bit on my eggs with some success, but I usually use just plain borax. As far as my opinion on what eggs
work best for steelhead, well, here it goes!

Well, in my opinion and some of my river buddies' opinion's, salmon eggs work the best on steelies(especially hatchery brats). This is because winter steelhead follow our fall silvers and kings and enter a river full of eggs from these fish. Therefore, on their journey upstream, these fish are constantly picking up foreign eggs along with other tresspassing objects and moving them out of their territory. This happens more and more as steelhead get closer to spawning. When natives come around, I tend to shy away from eggs and fish shrimp as my bait of choice, but I often don't use bait at all on natives instead of bait, try scents as often as possible, I just started using scents a couple years ago, but now I swear by it. Hope I was able to help a little! Good luck BrassonBrass!

I like to use ******** its the best scent anybody could put in there eggs but sometimes I like to use **** ***** or ***** but only whe there is alot of pressure.

Try shrimp oil and anis,then you should be in ball park.For steelies I like coho and steelhead egg's,for kings I like king egg's.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

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