I was thinking of putting my loose eggs in cheese cloth and fishing them like clusters.Anyone have any luck like this?TM

TM,

Get yourself some spawn sack material and some magic thread. Take your loose eggs and put about a bait-sized pile of loose eggs on the netting material. Close it up and wrap with the magic thread, and voila, you have some nice berries to fish with. These sacks make good baits, and are very durable. I make up sacks every time I cure eggs with the loose ones that fall off the skeins.

Fish on.........

[This message has been edited by Dan S. (edited 11-13-2000).]

Hey TM how goes it,I totally agree with Dan,spawn sacks work great and they last 10 times longer than regular eggs,I think you can still get kits for these check Sportco,the kit comes with all you need plus the little foam balls to add for floatation they also hold scent,need more info look me up...take care Os

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The ones I have done up in cheese cloth havent fished as well as regular clusters any ideas why?

Timber Man-

I've also used spawn sacks in several applications. First, I like using them for free drfiting small baits out of my sled. They hold up real well and work outstanding when jacks and smolts are in the river. Second, I used them when I was in Milwaukee, WI for a week steelhead fishing. The locals use plane eggs with no cure, as well as, they soak them in different scents. I found crawdad to work best. Third, I've used them when backbouncing heavy water for chinook.

I use one of the commercial spawn sack makers too. I suggest playing around with the number of foam floats you put in the sack. Also don't forget to use different scents it seem to work well.

Thanks for the tips, guys. I just cured up some chum eggs I harvested this weekend, and the skeins were already very loose. Those spawn sacks sound like a good idea.
Greg

Another tip for those who are not fortunate enough to get fresh fall eggs for the winter season. Get a jar of Pautzke's (sp?) green label eggs, the ones you always used for trout as a kid. Cut small squares of mesh, put 4-5 eggs in the center, tie it up tight with magic thread, trim off the excess mesh, and put them back in the jar. I usually add some shrimp oil to the eggs once back in the jar, and then reseal them.

To rig them, run your hook through the mesh, just under the magic thread knot, without puncturing any eggs. Then throw your egg loop around the whole thing to snug it up near the eye. These babies do not come off, so you often have to cut them off when the eggs have turned light pink and been squashed.

I found a jar of these "sacks" in my tackle box that I must have put up three years ago. They had been marinating in the shrimp oil all that time, and were still very soft. That jar easily outfished my real eggs that winter! The other benefit is that if you do up a whole jar, it will easily last you all day, and the jar takes up very little space in your vest.

Good luck!