I wanted to share this noteworthy tip along the same lines as the salt brine shrimp tip. Over the past several years, I bought some frozen dead shrimp at Jerry's to use as treats on my lures. Most of the time I never used all the shrimp so they were carefully wrapped, bagged and re-bagged and stowed, and carefully hidden, in the family freezer at the house. A couple weeks ago, I found several partial bags in the freezer. If my wife had found them, I would have HEARD about it ,in no uncertain terms, and she would have PROMPTLY disposed of them as she absolutely HATES the smell. SO I find about four-five partial bags of these dead shrimp, orange/black and stinky (even frozen you can smell'em real good). So I defrosted these babies in some salt that I had used to create and earlier batch of brine shrimp. I'll call it re-cycling your dead shrimp. Any way, so three weeks ago, I mix these dead stinky shrimp in with the salt and don't refrigerate them, just let the salt do it's job (magic). After a few days these babies really started to stank, I mean really stank (but were not rotting, and had no maggots), even the dogs were afraid of them. Gave the dead shrimp and salt-brine a good stir yesterday and I am letting them continue to cure. I used some fishing last week and now I am sold on them. We are talking, the worst smelling shrimp I have ever used for bait and WOW, the fish were really going after them. Now the wife is happy, (no more stinky shrimp in the freezer), I'm happy, got some shrimp that are just this side of spent nuclear fuel rods, and are nothing less than power-bait treats, and I don't have to keep them inside the house or even refrigerated. I will post a picture later so you can see for yourself. (Don't throw out them dead stinky shrimps, re-use them, you'll be glad you did.)
I used the same brine curing process I did for a previous batch of fresh shrimp, just re-used the same salt brine..... check out the Brine shrimp thread (started by Chalk
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http://www.bigbendfishing.net/phpBB3/vi ... f=8&t=1500
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