Northwest Fishing Reports

the fun begins . started curing the first roe of the season. i have about 150 berries cut into small quarter size chunks i can not wait til i get more in the next weeks

gave mine away to a fellow fisherman when i cleaned out my fish

you should have kept it for coho and chums

Not to mention, Steelhead Candy.

So I figured it's about time I try this since I have a bag of them in the fridge and have never done this before.
What's the best way to cure the eggs? Once they're cured, how do you store them?

Thanks.

BentRod wrote: What's the best way to cure the eggs? Once they're cured, how do you store them?

Check out http://www.steelheaduniversity.com/Egg_ ... lhead.html
and http://www.steelheaduniversity.com/egg_cure.html

vaccume pac them or ziploc bags dry eggs to desired moisture and then put into borax

Thanks guys. Looks like I'll have to pick up some borax. Hate to see those eggs go to waste.

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i got more roe today along with getting 3 fish stolen

Hey Curado, do you cut up all your eggs into quarter sized pieces? Or just some of them? I have 4 butter containers full of eggs that I cut up into golf ball size peices. I do it this way because, the way I figure it, I can always cut them smaller for the silvers of steelhead, but plan mostly to throw them at kings. Do the eggs cure better when cut up in smaller pieces?

i cut min small because i have hooked kings on small egg clusters and it can be used for steelhead to. but cutting them up as you go is fine

heres the finished product

curado, so you cut your skeins into those pieces, dry them on that screen, then put them into borax?

I am so confused on this..........do they stay stuck together once they have been cured? Just seems like they would fall off the hook.

hanapaa, borax and i cut the skein in half and then cut into pieces

scott the skein is in tact so that way you use an egg loop for the roe

Great info Curado, I was just thinking how to cure all these pink/silver eggs. Good stuff.

Curado, are you adding color to your eggs or is that the natural color?

it is the cure i am using it has dye in it. pink eggs are pink. for good quality roe, bleed fish immediately

Finally got the roe on a cure. Per the instructions on one of the Steelhead links natenez posted. Went with 1 part sea salt, 2 parts sugar, and 3 parts Borax. I also added a couple of drops of red food coloring to the mix, but I don't think it'll do much. I cut the roe skeins into, more or less, quarter size pieces and then mixed them up with this dry cure (~3 Tbs. to 4 skeins ratio), so it looks like slush. That was 2 fish worth of eggs. I'll stir this up once a day for the next 3-4 days and then see what I have. I then plan to either drain/dry them prior to placing in the freezer, or just place them in as is, depending.
Let me know if you see any errors in my process here.
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