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BurbotsNBourbon
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Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 12:24 PM »
Anyone try throwing perch eyes in fire brine to save/preserve for bait between trips? I've seen people talk about putting them in a pill bottle with oil to preserve but was wondering if fire brine would be worthwhile? Have an open bottle of brine so i tossed some eyes in from last weekend.
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albo
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 01:22 PM »
I have never tried saving them that way, I just freeze them.
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 01:27 PM »
Id through them in salt and toughen them up a bit and then freeze them.
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PyroZuki
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 01:30 PM »
I've only froze and salted/froze them, but I've had much less success with them than fresh eyes.
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badbrad2186
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 02:03 PM »
I put them in oil in a pill bottle seem to do well with them
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BurbotsNBourbon
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 02:39 PM »
I did put some salt in with the brine too to make sure they stiffened up a bit. Hoping to make it to the regulating reservoir one of these next afternoons and find out if it was a waste of time or not.
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filetandrelease
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 02:48 PM »
I used pickling salt worked ok
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Perch-Eye
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 08:30 PM »
I usually save a half dozen in a pill bottle and freeze them. That's enough to bait up 6 different times and when I get a few perch I have fresh eyes to use. I also take a paper clip to pop out the fresh ones . If you just pop it out a little bit you can poke your jig through it before you get it all the way out. This makes it easier to hook those slippery little bastages.
Ken.............
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BurbotsNBourbon
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 24, 2024, 09:05 PM »
Hooking the fresh ones while still half attached seems like a handy tip.
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RuralMT
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Jan 25, 2024, 09:13 AM »
Very handy tip, thank you PerchEye!
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BurbotsNBourbon
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Re: Brining Perch Eyes?
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Jan 26, 2024, 11:57 AM »
Was out yesterday afternoon at the regulating reservoir for an hour or so with the kids, not really long enough to know if there was much of a difference. Kids were using maggots and i had a brined perch eye, i was noticing more bites/nibbles from the perch on the bottom than they were but that's not saying too much since they're constantly on the verge of boredom and setting their rods down. If nothing else the brined eye didn't drive them away at least.
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