Hi all great forum! I'm inspired to try out plug cut herring for trolling which is something I have never done before. I do a lot of deepish trolling with lures using a paravane and wondered if the plug cut rig will work well with a paravane instead of a banana weight. Or will the rolling...
Pickled herring usually gets ignored because people assume it’ll taste fishy or the texture will be weird. But it’s cheap, convenient, and requires zero cooking. It can save dinner when you’re tired ...
I'm new to fishing herring but picked up two coho the first time trying it. I went with Green Label since that is the most common sized used. For the brine, I used the off-the-shelf ProCure premixed brine. I tried the Natural and Green. Both caught fish. Easy and didn't require much brain work.
To get the best brined product, do you have to go to extremes? What I am getting at is this -- Do you thaw your frozen herring, or do you make your brine, get the brine near freezing, and then add the frozen herring? Then let everything come to the temperature of the refrigerator together? I...
Anyone ever use Live Herring in Tidewater for Salmon? I have been wondering how well it would work, I was just reading the regulations when I saw that Live Fish may be used as bait in tidewater and the coast when taken from the same body of water in which they will be used.
I've only brined herring once before. I used a recipe that was posted on another popular internet site. That particular recipe got zero strikes down on the Willipa 2 years ago over labor day weekend. After the first morning of fishing hard and watching others get fish, I suspected there was a...