#939518 - 09/21/15 05:53 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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My Waders are Moist
Registered: 11/20/08
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Eh, I'd have more confidence fishing dick nites or something else compared to smelly eggs. It sounds like your are setting yourself up to not fish smelly eggs and thus not catch anything in them.
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#939530 - 09/21/15 07:43 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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Carcass
Registered: 01/09/14
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Loc: Sky River(WA) Clearwater(Id)
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Since nobody has asked the fish what they like, all we can do is present them with an opportunity and see if they are good or not. I've caught fish on old freezer burned eggs, dried out eggs, moldy eggs....you name it. I actually did OK on last year's moldy eggs on springers this year. Most of the scents and egg cures are marketing gimmicks that fool fisherman. It's what's in the egg membrane that counts.... fish em!
Edited by Bent Metal (09/21/15 07:44 PM) Edit Reason: spelling
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#939535 - 09/21/15 08:16 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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My Waders are Moist
Registered: 11/20/08
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I make a bigger deal out of curing my eggs to fish well. The firmness to last a bunch of casts is more valuable to me than having them juicy or smelling right. I just want to keep them in the water and not fuss around re baiting.
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#939539 - 09/21/15 08:50 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/05/04
Posts: 2572
Loc: right place/wrong time
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I eat them but after reading this thread, I'll be looking for hooks.
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#939541 - 09/21/15 09:21 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/15/99
Posts: 4166
Loc: Poulsbo, WA,USA
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I lay out my eggs on cardboard in the old fridge to drain the blood overnight, then butterfly and let drain some more in the fridge. It was smellier before I had the extra fish/beverage fridge/freezer as I dried out in the garage under a fan. Borax is a fabric softener and helps deodorize besides drying them out. Stays good in the freezer and I can thaw out in a bag with salmon cure and water or fish straight up for steelhead.
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#939545 - 09/21/15 10:56 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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Shooting Instructor for hire
Registered: 10/26/10
Posts: 7204
Loc: Snohomish, WA
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I'm with Aaron. Fish em'.
Cut em' out ASAP and place unwashed into a gallon bag. Repeat catching hens until full (or not). No cutting or washing, whole skeins. Leave em' alone once out of the hen. Add seasoning of choice to bag. Turn 1 - 3 times a day for 2-3 days. Take out and dry on cookie racks. Or don't dry and leave with juice for a wet egg. IMO - I like dry eggs. Water makes them wet or so I'm told. Once dry, place 1 - 2 skeins into small tupperware containers. No lid. Freeze. Once frozen, vac pack into daily allotments. Solo days = small vac packs. Party boat = many big packs. These last 5 years in the freezer or as long as your vac pack holds out. Cut to size on the river per species.
Also Brewer is right. I've added too much seasoning in the bag and have been forced to add tap H2O to dilute and poor off. In some batches, this has made a better finished egg. Fish em'.
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#939553 - 09/22/15 08:24 AM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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River Nutrients
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Hey: Lots of good advice given......if still un-sure, go to YOUTUBE.COM.....there are LOTS of videos that take you step by step. This is a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hnkamp-9cGood luck....
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#939554 - 09/22/15 09:33 AM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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River Nutrients
Registered: 10/28/09
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Just for fun, I'll tell you all about all the no-no's I committed while curing some eggs last week. In fact, about the only thing I did by the book was to promtly place the eggs in a ziploc bag immediately after opening up the fish. Made sure to keep the water out, too.
After that, it got a little ugly. First, I put the bag with the eggs in the cooler with the cleaned carcass (which, of course, was on ice). As all ziplocs eventually do, the bag eventually leaked, allowing one of the skeins to be completey soaked with freshwater, removing much of the natural orange color. Not a good start.
After that, I gently butterflied the skeins and set them on newspaper. Then, I added some anise scent, some salt, some sugar, and some borax and placed the eggs in front of a fan to air dry overnight. Next morning, I went to work without putting up the eggs, so they spent another day "marinating" at room temperature. When I got home, I found that the eggs had hardened up nicely and smelled, well, like fish eggs. As an added bonus, the Smelly Jelly I had used to scent the eggs, along with the brown sugar, had restored the color that had been lost in the leaky ziploc incident. Satisfied, I threw the skeins in bags and rolled them in more borax, then went straight to the freezer. Will they catch fish? We'll see....
I guess that was my long-winded way of saying "Fish 'em." Good luck. I predict fish will eat them, even if it's not the fish you are after.
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#939564 - 09/22/15 12:07 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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Lady Killer Deluxe
Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 1110
Loc: Kirkland
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I always rinse mine in very,very cold bottled water...then pat dry with paper towels. bleed don't bonk.............remove with rubber gloves into zip loc...........push any blood out of skein before rinsing. Good luck,
SZ Artesian Voss water to be exact...
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#939566 - 09/22/15 12:11 PM
Re: Egg Curing Process / Smelly Eggs
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The Chosen One
Registered: 02/09/00
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Loc: Tuleville
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I always rinse mine. I either shake the water out, or might pay dry with a paper towel if I feel like it.
I used to bother taking out the blood, but don't think it matters.
I cure my eggs in glass as plastics leach nasties in the eggs. May not make a difference, but I just use gallon glass pickle jars.
Once cured, I transfer them to glass quart jars to freeze or use.
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