Anyone here ever used them in place of Salmon Eggs?

The size, color, & shape are almost identical. I've heard the natives used to use them as bait, but I've never met anyone in modern times who's tried.

They will probably work if they will stay on a hook. Once on a hike I saw trout in a creek, and I tossed salmon berries that were in season into the water to see if they would draw a strike. They did, multiple times.

Sg

When I was a kid my cousins and I used red huckleberries and salmon berries to catch trout out of the creek behind our house all the time

Sure they'll work, but I always end up eating the bait.

red huckleberry pie > red huckleberry bait

Just picked a bunch last week and put them in pancakes...mmmm goood!

We were bragging about our catching ability years ago and a guy tells us the fish were so easy to catch he could get one on a red jumping jack firework. We said "sure". He grabbed a hook, put it on by ramming the hook home and in one cast had a 10 inch rainbow. Bastard.....ruined myu bragging right in front of a couple of girls. Why not a red huck? Hope I run into some kid talking crap on some dock and I will give it a try. Let you know if it ever happens.

We used them for cutthroat fishing in streams all the time when I was a kid. They were at least as good as salmon eggs and sometimes better. I don't know if trout mistook them for salmon eggs or not; they probably just looked like food!

DanS. you must get the munches while out on the trail by the stream if your eating the bait!!!!!!!.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

I haven't tried that but I did try using frozen tomatoes below a float before. I can say for certainty that they don't work for salmon. Chubs will eat them though. I got badly outfished by 3 little old ladies. Its a long story.

Who freezes tomatoes anyway?

Frozen tomatoes, huh?

That would almost HAVE to be a long story.

The dude ate paste in elementry school, and he eats frozen pizza at home, frozen, chased down with a microwaved glass of warm peanut butter. Why wouldn't he eat bait out fishing?

Dan eating glue.

Somehow I allready new that.

Ad for red huckleberries on Seattle Craigslist last night. $100 a gallon! Probably a fair price considering how long it would take to pick a gallon.

Yep!.....they work. I've used em' in a pinch when I ran out of bait while fishing trout as a kid. Even seen a curious summer-run or two take a look when we threw some berries in front of them for shits and giggles.

I can't imagine anyone but Dan eating them. I find them pale and flavorless. I have several huge bushes of them on my propoety but never eat them. Maybe Dan has an apppetitie enhancer?

Anyway, my dad said back in the day they caught trout and steelhead on red huckleberries.

I always find it intersting that my dad told us back in the early 1900s when the Nehalem was stuffed with steelhead the loclas never ate them. They were considered scrap fish as there were always steelhead in the river.