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#536887 - 09/12/09 01:01 AM curing eggs with jello?
bankbum Offline
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Registered: 05/10/09
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whats the best way to cure eggs with jello?

im trying to get a nice red colored eggs, WITHOUT buying store bought cure.

thanks in advance.

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#536896 - 09/12/09 01:51 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: bankbum]
Neal M Offline
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Registered: 12/13/99
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Borax+red jellow=red eggs. I hear steelies like rasberry, but strawberry even more....

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#536897 - 09/12/09 01:51 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Neal M]
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#536898 - 09/12/09 02:02 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Neal M]
bankbum Offline
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Originally Posted By: Neal M
Borax+red jellow=red eggs. I hear steelies like rasberry, but strawberry even more....


im trying strawberry now. but they arent very red, at least not the red im looking for. and im using a full pack of jello. the eggs (humpie eggs) are about the color of bright silver eggs when they are right out of the fish.

is the borax needed to make the color come out more?

thanks,

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#536900 - 09/12/09 02:05 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: bankbum]
Driftfishnw Offline
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Registered: 02/10/09
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Raspberry is the only jello I use.

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#536903 - 09/12/09 02:19 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Driftfishnw]
Elkman Offline
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Loc: Anchorage, AK U.S.A
Cherry Jello
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#536904 - 09/12/09 02:19 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Driftfishnw]
JTD Offline
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Loc: Browns Point,Wa. USA
Humpy eggs are pale to begin with...
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In the legend of King Arthur, the Fisher King was a renowned angler whose errant ways caused him to be struck dumb in the presence of the sacred chalice. I am no great fisherman, and a steelhead is not the covenant of Christ, but with each of these fish I am rendered speechless.

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#536912 - 09/12/09 04:32 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: JTD]
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Years ago I used to fish with a guide named Rich Bogle on the Skagit, Cowlitz & NFL rivers and he would use the eggs from the trip B-4 & used Borax & Black Cherry Kool-Aid. He always put us on fish, Always.
I really miss Rich & all those days of catchin!!
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#536916 - 09/12/09 05:34 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Misguided]
Satan Offline
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I have used cherry jello. Can't say it increased my catch rates really. I sprinkled the jello on first and then just cured the eggs as usual.

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#536931 - 09/12/09 10:51 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Misguided]
BigFin Offline
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Registered: 12/14/03
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Loc: Snohomish
Rich was one of my fishing buddies and a great fisherman, he could find fish anywhere!
He would combine jello's, like the black cherry and strawberry.
I know he would try mixing the Borax and jello before curing and sometimes he would do the jello first. Both came out just fine.
We had our sleds built at the same time and same place, I still have mine (1984) I have always wondered what happened to his flat bottom Skagit sled?
ALSO, for all the experts out there--
Rich was probably the original Dick Nite fisherman for Salmon in the river, and we are talking late 60's.
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#536940 - 09/12/09 12:14 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: BigFin]
The Catcherman Offline
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Registered: 06/24/99
Posts: 1201
Loc: Ellensburg, WA
I have some great Rich Bogle stories. He and the old man used to fish a lot together...he caught a lot of fish over the years. Too bad he passed away a while back. Lots of old timers used Jello. Not sure that the color ever mattered a whole lot. Presentation and fishing over fish certainly are more important than slight egg color.


Edited by DaveD (09/12/09 12:16 PM)
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#536941 - 09/12/09 12:33 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: The Catcherman]
DrifterWA Offline
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Originally Posted By: DaveD
Too bad he passed away a while back.


He's just gone to a place where all the fish are "wild" and a small fish is 25 #'s plus.



Have used raspberry and strawberry jello but you are $$$$$$$$ ahead to buy some of the "Beau Max dye" and learn to apply the proper amount.
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#536993 - 09/12/09 03:01 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: DrifterWA]
bankbum Offline
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Registered: 05/10/09
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i would normally just buy some cure. or use dye but im very poor at the moment. and truth be told i can get jello from the local food bank. so that is why im looking for the best way to cure eggs with jello.

thanks for the tips guys. ill continue my experimenting untill i find that special cure.

ive tryd adding jello to my secret cures already, so far i havent been happy. i feel the jello took away from my cures i have already.

thanks again to everyone.

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#536998 - 09/12/09 03:17 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: JTD]
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Originally Posted By: JTD
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rofl

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#537026 - 09/12/09 05:01 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Satan]
team cracker Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 04/16/08
Posts: 183
Loc: Washington
use knox gelatin, sugar, non-iodized salt and bad azz bait dye, oops just gave away a great steelhead cure, like steelhead really care.....

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#537027 - 09/12/09 05:03 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: team cracker]
bankbum Offline
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Registered: 05/10/09
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Originally Posted By: team cracker
use knox gelatin, sugar, non-iodized salt and bad azz bait dye, oops just gave away a great steelhead cure, like steelhead really care.....


i actually just did that cure. came out looking great and the silvers on the green thought so last week. natural color eggs though

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#537049 - 09/12/09 07:38 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: bankbum]
Eric Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 3426
I spent the first decade of my steelhead career pretty much using borax and cherry jello exclusively as my egg cure. I would always mix the jello and borax together first. Worked fine and caught me alot of fish in the early years.

I have since migrated away from it because I have discovered better cures but the jello/borax method DOES work.

Good luck.

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#537107 - 09/13/09 12:43 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: Eric]
riverdick Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 05/10/09
Posts: 138
Loc: around the next bend
Originally Posted By: team cracker
use knox gelatin, sugar, non-iodized salt


What ratios???????????????

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#537173 - 09/13/09 11:18 AM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: riverdick]
team cracker Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 04/16/08
Posts: 183
Loc: Washington
1:1:1, use the die o whatever color you like

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#537202 - 09/13/09 01:26 PM Re: curing eggs with jello? [Re: BigFin]
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Registered: 01/26/00
Posts: 6312
Loc: Vancouver, WA
Originally Posted By: BigFin
Rich was one of my fishing buddies and a great fisherman, he could find fish anywhere!
He would combine jello's, like the black cherry and strawberry.
I know he would try mixing the Borax and jello before curing and sometimes he would do the jello first. Both came out just fine.
We had our sleds built at the same time and same place, I still have mine (1984) I have always wondered what happened to his flat bottom Skagit sled?
ALSO, for all the experts out there--
Rich was probably the original Dick Nite fisherman for Salmon in the river, and we are talking late 60's.


One of the better side drifters out there... I miss that guy!!

Keith grin
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