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bigdog
I am just about to buy my first steelhead rod, and am curious what the "other" bait is that seems to be the most popular. Help! I have no idea what I'm doing!
-Chris
"Other" is most likely referring to Corkies, yarn, those artificial egg clusters with a tail, even pink plastics. Eggs is already a category to vote in, same with Live bait, I.E. nightcrawlers, nd shrimp.
I don't live in blekinge, i live in belgium, but i go there every year in september to fish for salmon at the crown's fishery in mörrum. Unbelivable: an european salmon fisherman talks about a swedish river with an india native salmon fisherman on an american forum. Let me say: the world is our garden.
Daniel.
No such things as stoopid Q. Especially when it comes to fishing.
A lot of cures claim to have hormones, pheramones and whatever other mones in them that stimulate fish to bite. I use cure for color and preserving. Shrimp last 10x longer for me without molding, rotting, and last a lot longer when fishing them.
Just salt would be ok...not as good to eat at the end of the day though. Salt won't kill the natural UV, I would use Kosher salt for that. There is another way too...look online for what they call a "soft" or wet egg cure. Leave the dyes out of it and it will do wonders for your shrimp. It will still retain the natural UV and pick up some of the chemmies that can cause them to trigger.
A cure, is a cure, is a cure...You just leave out the bait dye, as stated. There isn't a "special chemical" that only goes into eggs, or shrimp, some people use "secret" chems. It isn't bait specific really, just different varieties of chem. for different species, and water situations is all you need to worry about at this stage...There are different ways of applying cure though, to eggs and shrimp I mean. That is just something you'll have to experiment with.
Unless you want sticky, stick turd shrimp...Use confectioners sugar...Powder stuff.