The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Easy - 1-3 Min
Coldwater
Mixing and matching the egg color to the veil is the key here. While white is what I use 100% of the time, I’m sure other colors could work too. The egg color itself is best in orange, red, and yellow, though I know more colors will work too.
Egg patterns are a tried and true method of catching trout, salmon and steelhead. This pattern does a great job of imitating the yolk of an egg that often exists around eggs to help protect them. Fish are used to seeing this and though it looks a bit odd to us, this is actually a very imitative version of a fish egg
There are two primary ways of fishing eggs. The first is adding some weight in form of a beadhead to the fly and aiming for the bottom of the stream. The other is no weight and adding split shot or a heavier weighted nymph to get it somewhere else in the water column and letting the egg float naturally. Eggs don’t sink that fast if they are natural, so you could argue the latter is more imitative, but if you aren’t in the strike zone, fish won’t always move for these nymphs. It seems to be a toss up on which is best and it really depends on which day for what works best. Tie a few in both variations and try a bit of both until you find what works.
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