Salmon bake here, wondering what eggs everyone prefers the best for Nook fishin. Been loading up on silver pink and chinook eggs and I really like the way these saltwater pink eggs cure but I have never fished pink eggs before. Chum eggs to me seem to rock nooks so what's your favorite species for bait donations? Pro cure UV cure seems like a good idea also. Just burned up some fresh skein with my own cure and some UV dyes.

Sockeye.

Ya big stick wishin lake washington had a few more so they could open it again. I have a bunch of pink eggs hope they are going to fish.

springer's

Bass

Columbia river tules are a favorite of mine

Bass don't even like Bass eggs.

Strangely enough, I find sockeye eggs to be the only salmonid eggs I don't use 'round here...fish don't seem to like 'em much. Might be the local sockeye, might be the local everything else, but either way, they don't seem to fit.

Other than that, I'd worry more about fishing well than thinking there is a magic egg or magic cure...there's not.

Fish on...

Todd

Cure matters,as do the donor.

For Chinook in rivers, absolutely...for coho in rivers, somewhat...for steelhead, doesn't matter one whit.

But...my previous point...doesn't matter what magic egg or magic cure you use if you don't know how to fish...and if you know how to fish, you can make it happen with whatever's on hand.

I'd rather know how to fish than put my success or not in the hands of a jar of cure...

Kinda like hunting...you can buy the best gun, scope, shells, and gear...but if don't know where your quarry lives and its habits, then it won't do any more than make you look good at the range.

Fish on...

Todd

Beware the Best Indian,with the Best Arrows...because such things DO matter.

I've no interest in how Joe Average fairs,because my sights are set lightyears beyond same and weighed in like accords.

Which is why donors and cure matter a bunch.

Big part of the game is having skills and fish knowledge and most importantly there has to be fish. Eggs are not all equal nor are cures. I am with stick on this one. Sockeye eggs are oily as hell and the sockeye lives on kill where nooks live on baitfish so there has to be a differnce in chemical composition of Roes

pink eggs for steelhead, chinook and coho eggs for chinook and coho

I'd rather rate the relative maturity of a given skein,as opposed to chastising an entire Salmonid.

Though I've zero Chum or Sockeye love,in regards to Roe.

Proper handling is much more important than egg type. And cures do matter.

I'd happily banty the Massage Therapy Ruse,on skeins too far along.

Them pink eggs will fish fine, actually well, if they got decent cure on 'em and you fish 'em well. I get plenty of kingers every other year fishing them. They actually fish quite well, in fact very well in most good king holding water. If your eggs are at the point of good maturity without being loose, they are clean, and they milk, you got good eggs. A fairly sweat smelling egg is what ya want. Steelhead, especially summerruns will eat anything that resembles an egg, or smells like an egg. Kings are a bit picky at times, but semi firm, yet milky eggs is what gets ya the bites. You know goods eggs when ya see 'em and smell 'em, ya know the bad ones, if ya thinks they're bad, throw 'em out, unless your desperate for bait and gonna fish a loaded summerrun stream where you can easily entice those hungry stomached fish.

"Few" things as reassuring as "every other year".

Kids.

I shall revise my reply Mr. Stick....simply meaning every other year I'm using your dreaded humpy eggs. The "other" year, well, kinger eggs for kingers. As I'm sure the Big Stick of the North should already know. We simply have been relegated to odd numbered years being the humpster egg gathering years, with the waters being clean of pink on the even numbered years.

Big kid.

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