Your insights with acrylic yarn and this fly are very insightful. Your ideas on presentation in my opinion are spot on. I reside in NW Michigan and I have had the opportunity to stand and observe thousands of chinook salmon eggs roll across the bottom following the salmon spawn. This is a pattern that I gave 0 credibility to until you made one simple statement in your video. It was regarding watching clumps of eggs drift by. At that point this fly made sense. We rarely get the opportunity to fish large sections of our rivers in the spring especially during the sucker spawn. Too many people and no opportunity to approach form down stream up. I get to do that in the winter, but no suckers to observe obviously. I digress, thank you Dominick for the enlightening observations and the innovation you are bringing to this beloved past time.
Right on. And thanks for your kind words. To be clear, we fish this pattern regardless of the species dropping eggs. Our brown trout spawn in the fall. This is a great pattern as that spawn winds down.
As usual, quality information from a dedicated source. I’ve made a promise to myself not to tie my own flies due to the learning curve and my time constraints. That means I buy them, with the caveat that I buy them from my local fly shops with a preference for flies built by the fly shop owner or sourced from local fly fishermen. I do watch these videos though to learn what a well built fly should consist of and look like. So thanks Troutbitten for the lesson.
I tied up a couple last night following your instruction, Dom. Fished the last hour of daylight with the sucker spawn at the point, caddis emerger on a dropper above and split shot in between. On a local stream, two nice browns hit the egg pattern and one hit the caddis. A nice way to end the day.
When tight lining how far away do you add your split shot with this fly? Also do you put the shot on a dropper or add a knot to the tippet to hold it in place? Thank you
Hi there. The answer is about five inches away and in line. But there's more to it. I've written a few articles about all of this on Troutbitten. Here's the first one. It should answer your questions. troutbitten.com/2018/12/30/fly-fishing-in-the-winter-the-go-to-nymphing-rig/ Cheers. Dom
@@Troutbitten Thanks, I’ve been steelhead fishing the Salmon River,NY for 37 years now. BUT for only one 3 day stint in November a year. This year I tried tight line nymphing and I’m so glad I did. Tough conditions with very few fish coming in. I got three while most got zip. I even forgot my euro rod at home and had to match up my fly reel with a 13’ float rod. You probably know that on SR you’re not allowed more than 1 fly and the fly must hang lower than any weight. So I tied up some heavily weighted eggstacy eggs and had fun. Thanks for your information. Next year I’ll be adding streamers to my arsenal.👍
Could you add a bead head to this? Or is it better as is with as a tandem with a weighted fly bellow? Either way, I’m going to give this pattern a try..
Hi there. I believe that unweighted eggs fished with split shot catch more trout. I A/B test this every year. I actually prefer to fish with beadheads for most of my patterns, but there are a few, like the egg, that fish better with shot as the weight. More thoughts on that here. troutbitten.com/2020/01/05/fly-fishing-in-the-winter-egg-tips/ Cheers. Dom
Hi Douglass. Absolutely. All the materials for the fly are in the companion article on Troutbitten. That link is in the description. Hope the fly catches some fish for you! Cheers. Dom
