Does anyone know where to get real salmon eggs still in spawn sacks?

[TheJensenKid15]

I havn't looked anywhere yet, but I figured I'd ask here to get the answer easier. I'm hitting Millers Flat this weekend, and I know the real things will work better than those other canned ones. If you could help, you would be a lifesaver. By the way, the only reason I'm hitten that planter pond is to get my grandpa and little brothers in to fish. Thanks.
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[TubeDude]

[cool]Hey, Bro. Just a guess, but I doubt you will find fresh roe skeins anywhere on your side of the Sierra Mountains. Fresh roe is like gold to the salmon and steelhead fishermen along the coast and the commercial fishermen can make as much money selling fresh roe as they will on the salmon they catch. In fact, there are a lot of snaggers over there that snag salmon and steelhead just to get the roe and leave the fish to rot.

My guess is that you would have to find an oriental seafood market, and be prepared to pay a hefty price per pound for what they consider to be a delicacy...the fresh roe. Only right on the coast, in the busier bait shops, will you ever find fresh roe outside of a seafood market.

My personal recommendation is to go book a fishing trip out of one of the landings in Oregon or Washington, and hope you catch a couple of roe-laden female silver salmon. Their roe is the brightest orange and cures up great...with a little borax, salt and sugar.

The only fish spawning in Utah this time of year will be browns and some brookies. The macks will be on the humps at Bear Lake and the Gorge soon too.

If you fish flies, have you ever tried "glo-bugs"? These are the little round synthetic yarn ball flies that represent a single egg. They work well both for drifting down a current...or for fishing on a slow sink with a bubble. I still have a bunch of the special yarn. Used to use them a lot.
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[BearLakeMack]

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[TheJensenKid15]

I wonder if carp eggs would work as good? I'm planning on going down to the Jordan tomorrow night to get some more for next year. I just remembered that all of the other big ones I caught this year were filled to the brim with em. If not, I guess I'll just have to take my flyrod to catch some browns on the huntington. Thanks for leting me know.
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[TubeDude]

[cool]I kinda suspect the carp are already spawned out for this year. But, in the springtime, there are a lot of fish that have roe skeins that make good bait. Obviously, the individual eggs on most of them are far too small, but a clump of the ovaries with eggs attached is readily accepted by a lot of species.

I'm not sure how the current Utah proclamation reads, but I was once told that some fisheries officers interpreted using roe skeins from trout and other game fish to be in violation of the "NO GAMEFISH PARTS" regs. I heard from a "reliable source" that a kid got busted at Willard for soaking crappie roe for catfish. He shoulda been using corn. (Oh, we already had that discussion).
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[road]

In another month you can go to the American River by the Nimbus damn/hatchery and gather all the roe you can carry. When the salamon start their anual run up river, they are held up by the damn. The fish ladder can not handle all the fish that come through. You can tell ther're running by the shoulder to shoulder fisherman. Not a one of them when I was there saved the roe, the banks and still water was littered with it. Ya just have to plan a trip to Northern Calif. for it.
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[fisherman]

Hey Jensenkid15,
Get some trout roe and tie up some egg sacs. Sportsmans has the spawn sac mesh and the elastic thread to make them up. Fresh is best but frozen will work too. When it works it works it works real good! And they will be bigger mature fish most of the time. I try to have alittle frozen for emergencies. I've seen it work real good ice fishing too, as a bait or just to dip your jig into it for scent. Good luck fishing, I hope your little bros and grandad catch afew whoopers!
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[Hellsangler69]

Last couple of times I been to Pineview I have view carp spawning or at least going thru the motions close to shore . I know they spawn in the spring but it sure looked like they were doing it now . I wonder if they do have 2 spawns a season at Pineview . It is a different carp there . I just seen on the news 13 degrees at Pineview this morning . It's getting close to making ice now . LOL

As far as I understand the proc , trout eggs or egg sacs are not permitted in Utah to fish with .
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[cat_man]

I copied this from the DWR website, 2003 fishing proclamation:



Game fish or their parts may not be used, except for the following: [ol] [li]Dead Bonneville cisco may be used as bait only in Bear Lake. [li]Dead yellow perch may be used as bait only in: Deer Creek, Fish Lake, Echo, Gunnison, Hyrum, Johnson, Jordanelle, Newton, Pineview, Rockport, Sevier Bridge (Yuba), Utah Lake, and Willard Bay reservoirs . [li]Dead white bass may be used as bait only in Utah Lake. [li]The eggs of any species of fish, except prohibited fish, may be used. However, eggs may not be taken or used from fish that are being released. [/li] [li][/li][/ol]
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