Loose eggs for roe bags

Hello everyone. I've been getting stuff together to make my own roe bags for the STEEL this upcoming season. This is my first time doing it and from videos I've seen, I understand how to cure a full skein. But how do you get loose eggs to tie up roe bags? Do you just pluck each egg off the skein carefully or do you have to wait until you find a mature hen who is just about to spawn? Thanks for any info.

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ORIGINAL: Pafisher4

Hello everyone. I've been getting stuff together to make my own roe bags for the STEEL this upcoming season. This is my first time doing it and from videos I've seen, I understand how to cure a full skein. But how do you get loose eggs to tie up roe bags? Do you just pluck each egg off the skein carefully or do you have to wait until you find a mature hen who is just about to spawn? Thanks for any info.

Just slit them open when u catch them, then kick them back in the water

i use lots of egg sacs.like they said buy the eggs by the pound from PR. u can tie many sacs out of 1 pound. i use 5 eggs per sac. they freeze just fine. i save my containers and the juice from the PR single cured eggs that i use and freeze the egg sacs in the juice. i have froze and refroze and have used them up to 2 years later. when un thawed they will be white when they are no good.

I like using uncured eggs.  I usually get my own from a ripe hen but you can buy them at a cleaning station.  I've tried Salmon, Steelhead, and Brown eggs and they all work better at different times of the year.  In general the bigger eggs and sacs are used in the Fall or in high water.  Downsize the egg and the sac in Winter or low water.  The fresher the eggs the better.  Rinse in river water until hardened to your liking.  I just take a gallon zip lock bag on my fishing trips.  If I get a ripe hen, I pour the eggs into the bag and zip it tight full of water.  20 mins is usually good.  Dry the eggs and pack in vacuum bags for the number of days you plan to fish.  One cup of eggs should tie about 50 sacs or more.  Get them in the freezer as soon as possible.
 
I've never used cut or cured roe but I hear it works great in the Fall.

ORIGINAL: heyiknowyou

slit 'em and kick 'em

cure the skein then cut it into chunks and tie sacs with it or go buy a pound of eggs for $10 that'll last you most of the season

i used to do the old slit n kick
but have become more enviromentally concerned and now promote
swqeez and release

its for the better good pf our fishery

.....and the future
our children

I second the "brown trout eggs" theory, but I have some caviar I'm gonna tie up this year....the steels cannot resist the caviar.