When I normally fish for trout, I use a roll of salmon eggs. However, the guys I fish with use a single egg as bait and they have better luck. I would like to give this a try, but I do not know how to prepare it. Can you give me some tips on how to prepare a single egg as bait? Thanks!

Posted on August 25th, 2015

NorthernChrome_07

Roe bags are the standard bait for steelhead and migratory brown trout however in some cases single eggs do work extremely well. You have a few choices. I personally don’t use real single eggs and prefer to use either the TriggerX single eggs, a steelhead bead, or a small “yarn-fly” that is in the shape of a single egg. I find these work very well. If you do want to prepare real single eggs to use you can slightly cook the salmon eggs under low-heat in a small fry pan with a little oil. If you use this technique, make sure not to over-cook the eggs since they will “pop”. You can also treat them with a salt or sugar cure that thickens-up the oil inside enabling you to hook them. I find it’s just as efficient, or better to use the artificial ones above.

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