Sacramento River - Lower - CA

Fresh, blood free skeins is a great starting point!

Once the Sacramento River Kings bite these eggs, they won't let go!

Pautzke Nector is an essential ingredient in my salmon cure.

I prefer to allow the curing process to occur in a plastic baggie in a cool place. For me, its the refrigerator.

Butterfly your skeins with a dull knife or scissors and lay them berry side up!

This is the first layer of Pautzke Fire cure before I flip the skeins and dust the back side of the skeins as well.

Curing eggs for salmon, trout, or steelhead fishing is simple!

Curing salmon eggs is simple and Pautzke Bait Co. makes everything you will need to put up some very effective baits for salmon, trout, steelhead, and a lot of other fish as well.

Heat one end of the heat shrink tube before you load your lead shot!

Use a heat gun to shrink the heat shrink tubing around your lead shot and swivel.