Okay, so curing roe is a bit of a mystery to many anglers. I feel your pain…I struggled with it for years and ruined many a good skein in the old days. Eggs that turned out rock hard or too juicy…or both at the same time…I’ve done it all!
Luckily, you don’t have to trash a bunch of eggs these days thanks to the wizardry of the mad scientists at Atlas-Mikes. Their new Brite & Tight Cluster-Skein liquid egg cure is as easy as it gets! In a nutshell, you just marinate your roe in the liquid and it does all the work from there! Now more of that endless sprinkle-sprinkle-sprinkle, make sure you get the cure into all the folds, and then sprinkle so more. This cure is super easy and firms/dyes your eggs and adds scent. Brite & Tight is Oregon legal, too, because it is sulfite free.
Here’s a quick how-to pictorial on curing eggs with this stuff…… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Salmon
How to Cure Roe the Easy Way
How to fillet a Salmon
It’s salmon season and that means it’s time to have some tasty red meat on the grill! While this isn’t the way I do it (there are many ways to skin a cat…er…salmon), here’s a pretty helpful little lesson on fillet salmon to get you started. One of these days, I’ll put up a video of my technique…but right now, I’m too busy cutting up fish every day! :)
Sacramento River Salmon Techniques
Here’s a little thing I did for Yakima Bait recently…
Egg Curing Made Super Easy!
To many beginner to intermediate river salmon anglers, how to cure roe is one of the biggest mysteries in the sport.
The commercial powder cures on the market are relatively simple to use but they can still be intimidating…and results often vary wildly depending on the amount you put on, ambient air temperature, size of the eggs and curing times.
Then you have guides like me and other experts who make their own special proprietary concoctions and guard the recipe like it was the formula for Coca Cola…good for us, but not so much help to the guy who’s just getting to the game.
Luckily for all of you who’ve struggled with the whole bait curing process, Atlas-Mikes has just come out with Brite & Tight Cluster-Skein Cure, which will make life soooooo much easier for you.
The cure comes in liquid form and all you do is marinate fresh eggs in it (cut the skeins into chunks first unless they are really small) let ‘em soak 2-12 hours to get the consistency you want and then dry the baits. BINGO…you have good, quality baits ready to go! No powdery mess, no mixing, no massaging the cure into all the folds of the skein, no inhaling god-knows-what kind of chemicals.
It really is that simple!
Brite & Tight comes in three colors. Learn more at Atlas-Mikes
California River Salmon Techniques 101
Time for Chrome! I had the pleasure of fishing the Feather River before the opener, tagging kings for DWR and here's a little taste of what we should see this summer and fall!
• BASIC SARDINE WRAPS
A step-by-step guide to wrapping up your plugs.
• BASIC FLOAT FISHING TIPS
• PLUG WRAP VIDEO
Instructional video with cheesy host!
• DIVER & BAIT FOR KINGS
How to get your eggs down to where the fish are!
• SLACKWATER TROLLING
How to pull spinners and plugs in those slow water spots…
Rigging School: How to Plug Cut Herring for Salmon
With ocean salmon going really well at the moment, it’s time to take a quick lesson on how to rig a bait. There are many ways to rig herring and anchovies and this is a good place to start…
The Basics: Fishing Floats for Salmon & Steelhead
Here’s a little video I shot to kinda get you started understanding how float fishing for salmon & steelhead works…
How to: Basic Sardine Wraps
Not many things work better for river kings than a sardine-wrapped plug!
For some reason, there seems to be a lot of mystery out there regarding sardine-wrapped plugs for salmon. It may be a bit intimidating to the uninitiated, but there’s really nothing to it. Here’s a quick crash course on how to do it… … Continue Reading