Lenny
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Help an easterner out here...  No problems getting bit on my cured chinook, chum or rainbow skein, but for some reason every time I do a batch of coho eggs they do not get bit nearly as much. Usually I'll cure a few skeins from clean north shore Lake Superior rivers which are always nice and red. I do it properly with no blood in them. This fall I was in BC and caught a mess of hatchery cohos. I used some of the skein while out there, and brought the rest back in my suitcase.  They all look beautiful but don't get hit. Yes there are cohos in the systems I'm fishing in, not many but a few and they should be spawning right now. And the fish are all over my chinny skein, yet there is very few chinook left in my favourite river. Is there something I need to know about coho eggs? |
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« Reply #1: December 07, 2011, 07:43:37 AM » |
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Coho eggs have always worked great for me. The redder the better for me.
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« Reply #2: December 07, 2011, 10:03:52 AM » |
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I have caught coho, chinook, and chum on my coho eggs this year. I usually take2 or 3 different flavors. Several times one has out produced the others. Have you trid adding scents or salt/sugar to change it up a bit?
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« Reply #3: December 07, 2011, 10:21:09 AM » |
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Highly recommend you send what you have left to me for important testing, they could be contaminated. This is recommended on a yearly basis to ensure quality baits.  Seriously, whatever is going on with those baits I highly doubt it has anything to do with the fact that they came from a coho. |
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« Reply #4: December 07, 2011, 10:34:29 AM » |
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id love to get my hands on coho eggs
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« Reply #5: December 07, 2011, 12:58:18 PM » |
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Hooknose.... that made me chuckle !
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« Reply #6: December 07, 2011, 02:06:08 PM » |
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I ate all mine. |
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« Reply #7: December 07, 2011, 02:47:25 PM » |
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I ate all mine. Really?? Raw, I assume? Maybe its just all in my head.  I'm gonna put a drop of anise in the container just in case. |
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« Reply #8: December 07, 2011, 05:13:18 PM » |
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Over the years I've come to the following conclusion:
For kings, nothing beats big king berries..
For coho, nothing beats coho berries...
Lastly, for steelhead, NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, beats a good, tight, well-cured chunk of coho eggs.
Love em.
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Cutts the third.....
King's don't eat corkies. If you try to convince me of that misconception I'll ignore you.
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« Reply #9: December 07, 2011, 05:17:56 PM » |
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any where or anyone got any coho eggs for sale?
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« Reply #10: December 08, 2011, 12:43:10 AM » |
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Really?? Raw, I assume? Maybe its just all in my head. I'm gonna put a drop of anise in the container just in case. [/quote] Well, not exactly raw, you soak the skeins in hot(130-140 degree) tap water for a while so the eggs come off the membrane easier, then they are salted. BUT, now I know why the steelhead like them! |
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« Reply #11: December 08, 2011, 05:42:57 AM » |
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Sounds tasty. I'll admit to eating battered/fried perch skeins. They tell me you're not a real perch fisherman unless you eat the eggs!
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« Reply #12: December 08, 2011, 05:42:40 PM » |
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shad eggs are DEE LEE CIOUS
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« Reply #13: December 10, 2011, 06:51:32 AM » |
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Nevermind. My red berry faith has been restored... Nice to find the fish all ganged up in bank slacks with the river still ripping high...but clear. It was a busy day.    |
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« Reply #14: December 10, 2011, 10:06:28 AM » |
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Nice job Lenny !
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