Get your fall supply of salmon eggs

[Amerman]

Fall is coming soon and it looks like we are in for a great year. We have a large supply of both fresh and cured eggs available to you. The eggs are getting large and are now looking like a fall chinook egg. Our salmon cure is formulated to turn those Salmon on. We also have a cure especially made for the steelhead fisherman. We can mail these cured eggs just about anywhere.


Amerman Eggs

[chinook_hunter]

I would like to get some uncured eggs.But do to my job hours I cannot take care of them during the week. And wanted to know if it would be possible to get them on a friday afternoon.

[Amerman]

CH-hunter
I can always work something out with you. We get fresh eggs a couple times a week and sometimes that day lands on a Friday. If you want to wait until we get them on a Friday, we can do that. Or I know we are getting eggs on Thursday night this week and could get you eggs Friday afternoon. This would only be an option if you are willing to get eggs that are somewhere between 18 and 24 hours old, depending on when you picked them up. We are really picky about quality and generally try to get all eggs delivered in the first 2 to 6 hours. But the reality is these eggs are so good when we get them, you will probably not notice a difference if you got them the next day. Call or email me if you want me to get you on the list for fresh eggs.
Thanks, Scott Amerman

[Grant Scheele]

I have to give Scott a plug today. I fished his eggs exclusively this June & July on the S. Santiam and my boat had the best Spring season ever by far.

The season total was 34 Springers caught for 11 trips. I limited my clients my last 5 trips in a row.

The real advantage of his eggs showed up later in the season when the water level dropped and the fish kegged up in deep water and the only way to get at them was with a bobber and bait.

[FISHFINDER]

Scott,

I have a question about fresh eggs: you talk about the freshness of yours and I was wondering in your opinion what a good rule of thumb is for the maximun period of time before they hit the cure, and why. I am also curious about why a fish will eat one batch of eggs and not another. What are they looking for? Thank you for any input you may have.

You also mentioned a while back that your cure may be on the market soon. Any progress?

FF

[Amerman]

Grant,

Thanks. So what kind of plug are you going to give me? Is it that lucky green-headed quickfish? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

FF,

Yes, I think fresh eggs is very important. I think if a salmon can tell the diference in smell between one river and another, I think he can tell whether or not your eggs were fresh or got oder before you cured them. My rule of thumb is to cure the eggs as soon as humanly possible. I don't break out the scissors and cure them upon landing a fish. But I do make it a priorty when I first get home. I would never let them sit to the next day. I think a fresh egg has a very short self life. My rule of thumb is 24-36 hours is the longest you can hold on to an egg, under good conditons like refrigeration, before curing them. If you put up an egg that is 48 hours old, will it fish? Yes, but not as well as a 24 hour old egg, and both will be out fished by an egg that was put up in the first couple hours. I will only sell my fresh eggs for the first 0-12 hours after it comes out of a fish, unless I get a special request from someone to hold them longer because it is the only way they can get them.

What do fish want? Let me start by saying I don't even begin to pretend I know everything about fish. If I knew why they picked one thing so much more over another and what they like best, I wouldn't have to work so hard at it. So that given, what do salmon want? Well, what I know about salmon is they are close to the top of the food chain. While a salmon is in the ocean, food to it is whatever it can fit in its mouth and catch. That's why they are so easy to catch in the ocean. Get it in front of the fish to catch it. Nature's insurance policy to keep salmon from having that same mentality and eating all their own smoltz and to get them to think about spawning is to stop the digestive tract at some point of their life so they can no longer eat. So when fishing for these fish in non-ocean conditions, we have the fact that they can no longer eat working against us. What we have to do is rekindle that instinct of dominance where everything that fits in there mouth should be eaten. What you have to do is get a chemical reaction in that fish's head to eat and eat aggressively again. This is done through additives that, once smelled by that fish, make it remember feeding and make it want to do it again. A lot of the old cures like borax just preserved the eggs, but now good cures must rekindle that strike instinct in the fish. You still need to get that bait close enough for that fish to smell it, but once smelling it, the fish will find the bait. So in a long way, this is why one bait of eggs works while another one doesn't.

I am putting my cure on the market and planning on trying to get bulk sales out to ifishers as early as next week. I have not finished my packaging and a couple other things. But I did send cure to a couple people this week who needed it right away. So order now if you want, and I will get it to you ASAP. Or I will make an anouncement on Ifish when I am ready.

Scott Amerman Amerman salmon eggs and soon, cure.