How to Tie Salmon Eggs

Salmon spawn sacks work well for catching salmon.

Just as fish bite on leeches and night crawlers when they seemingly will hit nothing else, so, too, do salmon and trout bite on salmon eggs. Anglers fish salmon eggs inside sacks -- the bait is known as a spawn sack -- that they buy at a store or that they make themselves. Many anglers choose the latter because they can make only as many spawn sacks as they need for a day of fishing.

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Netting
Scissors

Instructions

- 1
  
  Cut a piece of thread 6 inches in length.
- 2
  
  Place the netting on a solid surface. Place anywhere from five to 20 eggs on the netting.
- 3
  
  Grab all four corners of the netting and pull it tight around the eggs. The extra netting should be bunched above the salmon eggs.
- 4
  
  Twist the bunched netting so it is tight around the eggs.
- 5
  
  Wrap thread around the stem of the sack four times. There should be be two tag ends.
- 6
  
  Secure the thread around the stem of the sack by tying it in a knot. Wrap the thread three more times around the stem. Tie another knot.
- 7
  
  Cut any extra netting or thread that extends beyond the final knot you tied.