curing squid and smelt for stergeon fishing?

[Fishaholic]

Can you cure squid and smelt for stergeon?  Anyone ever try it? I just though of it. Any ideas?


thanks
dj

[bankwalker]

Never really needed a reason for cured bait for sturgeon. I've been know to use yarn with any various scent to catch them 

[Fishaholic]

how do you do that?

[bullcanyon]

You can pickle the squid. Never needed to pickle the smelt.

[bankwalker]

how do you do that?

Ran out of bait one night last winter and was on a good bite with no money to buy more bait. So I just took some pink yarn and tied a Snell knot and put about a golf ball size ball of yarn on the hook. Soaked it with krill, herring, and sand shrimp scent. Ended up catching 2 undersized and breaking off a bigger one. Fishing your local sturgeon river