Easy choice....
Chum eggs, as we have a abundance of them down in my neck of the woods.

I wonder if the chinooks bite other species eggs out of some ancient territorial instinct. Kill the competition by chowing their eggs down or smashing them in their beaks. I fish lots of chinook eggs on chinook and do well so maybe this idea they kill other species eggs is not what they are really trying to do. I know they are hungry cause with my cures they try to eat them deep most of the time if not every time.

Although a good theory, I don't see it that way. Too many coincidences with in stream eggs doing well on their own fish. I've found that at certain parts of a female salmons lifecycle they begin to rapidly expel their own fat content into the eggs and the higher that content in that particular species the better they produce when being fished. In other words, the more mature the egg you can get that still has that milky look prior to curing and without that glossy look the better they produce.... There's a fine line to that time period of retaining them....

Keith

Fish are a trip man, that they chow their own young, and I totally have seen what u are saying about maturity and the opaque appearance vs. Shiny look. That being said humpie eggs should fish pretty well, even though they aren't the biggest berries around which I know some peeps like em large. What's up with your cure and where can I buy it from? You mail it out?

Yeah, I'll pm you a cost sheet....

Keith

UEC sucks.

Too bad I had to waste all those king eggs that are currently curing up in UEC - was the only cure I had. A Fat Female Ditch Pickle probably wouldn't touch those eggs now, let alone any self-righteous chinookie or steelhead.

Oh well, I will just have to make them work with my awesomeness.

I personally can't wait to burn up some eggs in the ultimate sauce. Can't suck too bad as I have seen finicky clackamas river springers choke on it so deep they were bleeding out of their bunghole when dudes from battle scrounge WA came down one evening. If springers want to eat it I will roll it along with all me other super sauces. Anytime someone disses a cure makes me think it actually works so good that Peeps are trying to keep it on the down-low status. Parker must be gettin skunked a lot these days which is too bad cause salmon are stacking like cordwood all over the darn place.

My favorite's, in order are Coho, Chum, king.

I do agree though, it's more about putting decent eggs in front of fish than having superior eggs in a desert. I'm lucky enough to live in a target rich enviroment so even C or D grade eggs work when I'm running low.

Yeah, that must be it.

Stlhdr1 - your cure sucks! I keep getting skunked when using it! Only a fool would use UEC.

But I'm glad baked salmon is here to show me how it's done!

Well baked? As Big Stick would have said, let's see some results of your awesomeness.

My absolute favorite eggs are ..... Sockeye, with Chinook being Second.

Parker, shoot me an e-mail and I'll send you some cure. Just don't tell Keith

Email sent.

I probably had access to about a 100 skeins of sockeye eggs while up on the Kenai in July. Watched them all go in the river to feed the 'bows.

Maybe next time I'm up there I'll figure out a way to get them in some cure and shipped back down home.

That is pretty lame of me to not throw down some chrome pics, I need to get my act together and figure out how to upload pics. Pretty much chump status till I do, b.s. Only goes so far round these parts. Thanks for calling me out parker, but feeding your sockeye eggs to the trout is great news cause I will have that flavor and you won't!!

In hindsight, that probably wasn't the smartest thing I've done lately....



Oh well, that just gives me an excuse to go get some more next year!

Out for a stroll the other day on a low tide humperooni bite(wasn't fishin) the beach mob was hooking piles of slimers as fast as I have seen yet this year, and the peeps were guttin hens left and right so I asked a few what they were doing with the eggs they said throw them to the sculpins. So in true bottom feeder egg junkie fashion I got lucky and they gave me a pile of eggos. Burning em up now, good egg haul for just walking my not so vicious mutts. Pays to ask nicely, if u do what I did beware walking up to a murders row of kids whizzing buzz bombers, make sure to approach from the side, and not from BEHIND cause you might be wearing thirty bright pink lures in your precious meat suit.

Holy hot fishing and egg haul season! Not getting nooks right now in CR but coho so thick you could do a two step across the estuary. COHO eggs it is for me. Have a fat sack of em cured up after this weekend. Now need some where to fish em up round puget sound soon. Green river, nisqually tidewater time yet!?! Coho eggs win my vote of best egg to cure, maybe cause we got a bunch of em!

1. Bring cure.
2. Bring lots of bags.
3. Bring more bags to put around your bag of eggs.
4. Put in your checked luggage.

Easier than catching a 30 on a bug rod for most.

fedex em