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12-29-2009, 07:01 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Brookings, OR/Gustavus, AK
Posts: 1,596
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Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Talking with guide friends from Northern California to Washington State around Christmas, I heard lots of stories about good early season steelhead fishing. All of the steelhead had one thing in common - they were caught with salmon and steelhead eggs cured with Pautzke BorxOFire and Fire Cure.
 Clients of my good friend Bruce Hewitt, a guide on the Columbia River out of Tri Cities, Wash., with steelhead caught near Ringgold the day after Christmas. The fish smacked clusters of roe cured in Pautzke's BorxOFire. Earlier this summer, one of Bruce's clients hauled in an 81-pound king on the Kenai on eggs cured in Pautzke Fire Cure.  These two anglers were fishing with Paul LeFebvre of the Rogue Outdoor Store on a Southern Oregon Coast river on Christmas Eve. The steelhead slammed eggs cured in orange and red Pautzke Fire Cure.  I gave Smith River guide David Castellanos a few bottles of Pautzke cures and some skiens of steelhead eggs cured in BorxOFire. This is one of the results, a nice hatchery buck taken Dec. 26.  My Dec. 23 customers with two of the five steelhead they hooked on eggs cured in Pautzke's natural-colored BorxOFire.  And my day after Christmas group with their three steelhead taken on eggs cured in BorxOFire.  Southwest Washington guide Bill "Swanny" Swann with a steelhead taken on eggs cured in BorxOFire with a little extra sugar and salt. There are several quality commercial cures on the market, but many top guides are finding success right now with the hot new BorxOFire and the already proven Fire Cure.
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12-29-2009, 07:48 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Staytucky
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
You ain't kidding Andy! That Borax 'O Fire and Fire cure is something else! My buddies and I have switched over to exclusively Pautzke's for our egg cures. Easy, clean and deadly on fish!
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12-29-2009, 08:03 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: West Richland
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
So much for my secret cure.. LOL.. I really like the stuff, Is this an advertisement for BoraxOFire?
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12-29-2009, 08:10 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Forest Grove
Posts: 523
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
That Borax O Fire is the cats a- meow!
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12-30-2009, 06:28 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Milwaukie
Posts: 1,012
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Good Pautzkes advertisment
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12-30-2009, 07:42 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Mulletville
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
So, is it safe to assume you get free product/have a sticker on the side of your boat from said company?
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12-30-2009, 11:16 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Albany
Posts: 433
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
I am sure those fish would not have bit any other cure put in front of them that day
 Must be that cure that makes it all happen.
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12-30-2009, 11:36 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Forest Grove
Posts: 535
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Nice fish pautzkes cure is good and all
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12-30-2009, 12:54 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,182
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
I think they said in the thread about testing cured eggs that Borax cures did not cause harm to the fish ?? If that is the case the guys that market/sell Borax cured eggs stand a better chance of surviving in the egg business !!!!
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12-30-2009, 01:40 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Gresham
Posts: 4,509
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Good on you for making that choice, just don't expect everyone to agree.
Nice fish Chetco, have not tried to Borax stuff yet but Firecure sure does it. RR.
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12-30-2009, 02:03 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 400
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Steelhead seem like that cure, way to go.
Last edited by Smoked Salmon; 12-30-2009 at 09:46 PM. Reason: negative comments removed per AUP |
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12-30-2009, 02:51 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: madras, or
Posts: 681
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
its funny how u see thread to thread one cure putting down the other. blah blah. then u see pics and people start saying "i gotta start using that"
they all work.......but yea ive been using this stuff. doesnt produce hatchery fish imo all i get is nates 
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12-30-2009, 02:51 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: GP area
Posts: 927
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Good stuff!!
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12-30-2009, 03:01 PM
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Coho
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tri-Cities
Posts: 88
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Jeez you see the size of the kid in that first pic. Wonder if he's been downing some of that magic Borax O Fire!
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12-30-2009, 03:19 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 2,194
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Nice looking fish!
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12-30-2009, 04:34 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Oroville, California
Posts: 581
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
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12-30-2009, 07:14 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: West Linn, Oregon
Posts: 1,793
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
it works... hooked three on sunday using the old frozen pautzke fire cured eggs i had left over from the salmon season.
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12-30-2009, 09:42 PM
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Mod Squad
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 12,215
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Folks, please, do not post negative comments in a fishing report thread. We all have personal ethics that guide our decisions every day. If you feel that you need to comment on the handling of fish you see in pictures, PM the poster. If you feel you are seeing something illegal, alert the moderators to the posts. If you feel that the world could use some helpful and friendly advice so that they could understand and perhaps switch to your ethics, START A NEW THREAD!
Thanks.  (some posts were maimed, killed, or otherwise harmed in the making of this notice) |
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12-30-2009, 09:56 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Palmer Alaska
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Re: Hot cure for steelhead (lots of pics)
Well said, and thanks to you and the other mods!
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