* BUYING & CURING coon shrimp for steelhead & prawns for spring chinooks ~ for a more productive fishing bait than some of the small bait dealer packages at tackle shops, & at a much cheaper price (click See More & possible comments below): * Search via the internet & even the Yellow Pages for bulk frozen cooked whole striped shrimp & bait sized prawns at large seafood markets for 25 lb frozen uncured boxes of them - Marcy (or Mersey) brand is the best. If you have a guiding business or fishing associated business you can buy them wholesale from such as Pacific Seafoods in Astoria, Oregon (or their Portland outlet), & other large NW seafood wholesalers. With the Marcy box you can sort out the smallest ones for steelhead & the larger ones for springers. Importantly, removal of ones with loose blackened heads &/or broken off tail segments gives you just good ones to cure, unlike what youll find in most store bait packages. Use those separated pieces to cut up for putting small chunks onto jig hooks. ... Home cures >>> STEELHEAD FISHING coon/striped shrimp & smallest prawns - For both coloring & some preservative properties (without having too much chems involved which steelies arent especially fond of), I combine red & clear versions of Pautzkes brine cure to achieve whatever shade of pink color desired. Also scroll down this page for a ways to the picture of prawns & herring being cured in Pautzkes brine for tech on a combo of pink & blue prawns/shrimp/tails. I also add very small amounts of sugar & distilled water to stir in thoroughly (yep, not just bright salmon have a sweet tooth & this also cuts the sodium content a lil bit). Soak these baits at room temperature - up to an hour when thawed or a bit longer when frozen. Drain & vacuum seal in glass jars as you do with salmon eggs. Best kept frozen again until night before trips. ... CHINOOK FISHING prawns - The Pautzkes brines work well for these also, but dont dillute with water. Adding a bit of sugar is good. I sometimes add squid &/or tuna oil to it. Ill add more radical things on the river for follow up presentations. Soak these a little longer than the smaller ones. ALSO - if you can afford the steep price of raw jumbo prawn tails they can be cured peeled (or kept in the shell). They make surprizingly excellent float fished bait for fall & spring chinooks! And.... ... My favorite way to cure prawns is to soak them in saved up excess redish salmon egg juice from the color/chem curing process - which takes some time, because done correctly most of that juice re-absorbs back into the eggs. If needed Ill thaw out a jar or two of some looser cured eggs & mash the juice out to combine with prawn or shrimp oil + a dash of salted water for this cure. It gives the prawns a redish/orangish pink color & has the great combo of shrimp/egg scent + some preservative for them from the chemd egg juice. If you dont want to vacuum jar freeze them then use a small amount of sodium sulfite in the juice before soaking the prawns and refridgerate low in the colder meat bin. This makes for the most productive prawns Ive ever fished! media2.apnonline.au/img/media/images/2013/07/30/IMAG1043_t460.jpg
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:26:05 +0000
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