Is 'SCENT' on egg and sucker spawn flies effective?

It's my understanding that it is all about presentation for steel. I've caught them on cigarette butt cotton. Maybe want to try tobacco flavored scent?
 
BH

Huge gob of skein. Anything smaller then a pingpong ball and your wasting time.......WF....all the natural scent you need. Brings them in for a mile downstream

Certainly presentation is the most important factor in steelheading, but as fish5000 said it can give the angler a little bit of an edge. This spring for example I was fishing for trout with Gulp minnows. I caught a few fish then I went a good handful of casts without a hit. Once I put a new one(which obviously has more scent) on I started getting more hits. This pattern continued throughout the day. Scent may not change a horrible day into an epic one, but yeah I'm sure it can help some.
 
With that said I've never tried putting scent on flies before, for any species, and I probably never will as I'm more than happy with my catch rates w/o scenting my flies and lures. But I do admit it could have advantages(or in other words, I don't think you have anything to lose).

Troutguy, + 1 on the Gulp. I catch a ton of fish with those. The scent makes a HUGE difference. I don't fly fish, but if I did, I'd put scent on it. Just sayin'. I don't have delusions of grandeur. I've never striven to be an elitist of any kind. I just like to catch fish. Big fish. Lots of fish. Period. Why? 'Cause it's a helluva lotta fun. I don't give even the slightest bit of a da mn what others think of my fishing style. I don't fish for others. I fish for me. So, if using scent helps me catch fish, I'm usin' it! LOL! I buy Gulp Alive scent and store my favorite jig bodies in it. They don't soak it up like the Gulp bodies, but they do soak up some of it. I've noticed a definite difference when using scented vs unscented.

As troutguy wrote, presentation is an important factor [very important factor] while fishing for Steelhead [and other species as well]. Using scents for fishing is not the cure - all or the magic bullet. It's merely another tool that can be utilized to make one successful. The more "tools" one has at their disposal and are willing to use, the more successful that person will become. Yes, I know that sounds painfully simple and obvious, but it's amusing how some fisherman will get locked into only using a few tactics to catch fish.

All good slab.
 
Was thinking about this while I was out on the lawn tractor this evening, among many other things during my 2 hours of solitude.
 
'Spoze a fly guy might look at me lugging my yellow Frabil bucket of minnows up and down the crick and my egg juice stained vest and probably wonder why I go to all that trouble when I could just put some juice on a ball of yarn. 
 
Juice away fellas, juice away! 

Who is the most interesting juicer in the world?  Pic please?!!!

Hahaha deetz nailed it
 

slabdaddy

I just like to catch fish. Big fish. Lots of fish. Period. Why? 'Cause it's a helluva lotta fun. I don't give even the slightest bit of a da mn what others think of my fishing style. I don't fish for others. I fish for me. So, if using scent helps me catch fish, I'm usin' it!

 
egg-zaccally.
Glad you "get it", Slab.
Rsquare'd  does too
 
the "elitist" thing is just plain dumb 
While I'm sure there are  some applehEds that think they're "better than" due to the rod in their hand, I don't think "most" think like that.
and on the flip side, i think some use a flyrod so they can "fit in" with the snOb class, when their style of fishing would be better suited to a float rod
BOTH are morons IMNSHO
 
 
 
as a "bi-angler" that  uses  both rods ( I fish for steel w/flyrod 96.83% of the time and spin outfit 99.38% for bass) the virtue and beauty   of the fleapole is the ability to do more things with your presentation on the creeks
and that's why "I" use a bugrod for steel....nothing more, nothing less.
There's more to fleapole steelie fishing than right angle drifting under a float thru a hole or run.
Indeed, if that's your primary method, you 'd be BETTER served with a long float rod
However, you can do a lot of things with flyrod that can't be done well (or easily) with mono/spin outfit.
That's the beauty and virtue of the bugrod
 
 
 
to the juice subject....
I'm not convinced it makes much if any difference .
I've tried it in the past for bass and steel, I personally haven't found any "sure" pattern one way or another .
Same with fly vs bait believe it or not  .
The first 6-7 years of steelheading for me was done with a  spinning outfit.
I used "everything" on the end of my line ...dozens of different flies 'n yarn and several types of bait I toted to the creek  every trip.
What I discovered was, it was 50-50 of what worked best on any given day .
No chit!
..about half the time flies caught more fish, the other half it was one of the several baits I brought along
( a smorgasbord  of delights ... single eggs, skank/eggsacs, live minnows, maggots )
 
if scent made a "clear"  difference, one would logically reason the bait would always out fish the flies ...but not so from my personal experience
 
Presentation, shape, size or color,  in one or any combination of those four is what "got it" done
 
 
side note;
Someone mentioned "confidence" ..that's a very big part of catching too imHo
if squirting juice gives one more confidence, by all means juice it up
 
 
..L.T.A.

Scent is the bomb. Trust me. I had almost 2 steelies hooked last year, I think....WF...heah, I'm one of those elitist.

Find something that works--use it. Pretty simple. I use my fly rod for bait too--the reason is the presentation. If you find a scent that works and you want to catch fish have at it.   But like Bing said, if you dope a fly you may want to reconsider putting it back in the box.

Pork that is a good explanation of which setup works best.  I feel the same way. Ive never used the juice and i never plan on it.  I sometimes use homemade egg sacs and they b drippin yo.  
Bings catches so many fish, someone should test his junk...i think he be juicin...  

If your gonna juice yer fly, ( does that sound weird? ) why not take it a step further and tip it with a live minnow? Or will the minnow fall off while roll casting?
 
BH

BloodyHand

If your gonna juice yer fly, ( does that sound weird? ) why not take it a step further and tip it with a live minnow? Or will the minnow fall off while roll casting?

BH

 
Shouldn't.  I do a kinda, sorta roll cast with my noodle rod about 90% of the time when I'm steelhead fishin.  Hardly ever actually flip the bail and cast.  Sometimes a single egg will fall off, but rarely a minnow.