How old is TOO old - cured eggs that is....

[blubeast]

found a couple of frozen bags of cured eggs in the bottom of the deep freeze (originally cured with Pro Cure). They'd fallen to the bottom and were 'lost' for several years.

Now that they're found... are they still good? No freezer burn, texture is ok, appear to milk ok... How else can one tell?

[Pete]

Do they catch fish? :wink:

[Hookset]

Does the egg membrane break apart? Usually the eggs after thawing will just fall apart with a slight squeeze. If not, and they look and smell like eggs, you still have a chance.

Gregg

[Fishtail]

I've got the same situation going with some eggs that I found.... I plan to experiment with these eggs on Monday and see if they will catch fish. If the they don't catch fish, I will blame the eggs and not my technique. That is what any good fisherman would do. :wink:

[blubeast]

Thanks for the replies... The membrane and eggs appear fine... milk and hold together on the hook

regarding catching fish... I do not bobber fish too much, and have not had any luck with it... either when the eggs were fresh or now that they're several years old... so don't think the catching is much of an indicator.

[Nanook]

This post is timely. Looked in the fridge this morning and grabbed the oldest jar of eggs (four years), moldiest and ugliest eggs I had left to get rid of them to fish the "off time" today in Trask tidewater.

Go figure! 24 pound buck and 30 pound hen for the ole' ******. (weighed them Keith). I am getting ready to go cure the eggs up, let them sit four years and get moldy and ugly I guess.

Jenny, DON'T throw the eggs away you were worried about in your moldy egg post. You never know. :grin:

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[Nuttinbutnet]

Years ago a buddy and I were bobber fishing Trask tidewater with very little success. After two or three hours, my buddy says I,m going through to much of his good eggs and tosses me a can with some of the most dried up eggs you ever saw. I mean I don't think they had been refrigerated in six months. Took my knife, sawed a square off, hammered my hook through them and threw them upriver. Bobber went three feet and gone! Went down so hard it left a splash. 37# chrome bright hen. So much for them GOOD eggs.

[Jim]

All things being equal I would take fresh eggs over old eggs...but since nothing is really equal in fishing...I would recommend fishing eggs whatever shape they are in.

****** way to go!! Bobber and eggs or drifting them?

In the broke days of high school and college caught some awefully nice fish on gnarly eggs...


Just fish...and as Jen says...expect a fish on every cast!


Jim

[Nanook]

Bobber fishing. Yep, you can bet I had good ones with me. Just never had to use them this time. That was a plus deal. Handed the second fish to Son of an Okie's Son. (Good Monkier Keith) She took him almost back down to 5th street! Got it back under control and let him land it. This kid is a fishing machine, like his Old Man. :grin:

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[Nanook]

For Jen.