The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Other, None
Easy - 1-3 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
Due to the simplicity of this pattern, there isn’t much that you can substitute in here. Tie in your favorite egg yarn, whether it be McFlylon or Atlas UV Glow, and let this pattern speak for itself. Sharpie can also be used to color in spots on an egg stream-side.
Altering this pattern slightly can allow you to best fit your fishing situations based on what you see streamside. Adding a bead or lead can allow you to get your egg down deep more easily, while still utilizing the fish-catching power of the egg. Variations with krystal flash as a tail or adding egg veil at the head are good ways to vary up this fly.
The Glo Bug is an older fly pattern but is really one that should always be in your box. Every fish species in the planet reproduces using eggs and consequently, every species is willing to feast on these eggs as a food source. Fish don’t discriminate when they see an egg; they simply gobble it up. Fishing this fly during the spawning times of species will produce the most fish, but anglers should be sure to leave the spawning fish on redds be. Fishing will be more productive and less detrimental to the population when you target the groups of fish that hold behind the actively spawning fish, just waiting for the free eggs to float by their face. Although most trout species reproduce during a particular season, hatchery fish are known to produce eggs year-round, so the Glo Bug is always a great choice for a lead fly.
Target in on the groups of fish holding behind spawning fish and be sure to leave the groups of fish over “small craters”, or redds, alone. Since you’ll be fishing this on a nymph rig, you’ll want to be sure that you have the appropriate amount of weight added to successfully catch fish. You’ll likely see the groups of fish, or at least their flashes, that are readily consuming the eggs of spawning trout in the stream. You should expect to catch fish on this pattern when you target the actively feeding fish.
No hatch chart data available for this selection.
No hatch chart data available for this selection.
Sign up for full access to the Learning Center
and all the FlyBrary Content.
payment methods accepted
Copyright © 2003 – 2025 MidCurrent LLC, All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 2003 – 2025 MidCurrent LLC, All Rights Reserved.