Thank you very much for all your informative videos. I'm learning fly tying from your videos which are just right for me, a beginner. This egg fly I can attest is the best way to catch our Great Lakes (Michigan) salmon (Chinook & Coho) when they move into the rivers to spawn in Sept-Oct. I especially enjoy your histories of the various flys and how they came to be. God bless.
I use the equivilent of 1 of those strands when making my eggs and I make them on a sz 12 scud hhook.. if I want some diff colors(blood dot or clown egg) i take a bodkin or my scissors and divide the colors i want into smaller strands then put them together and they the size of just 1 of those strands u use! damn! thats a huge egg. maybe you rivers are diff tho.
many people are saying this fly is way to big to be an egg, but when they are large like this They look like clusters of eggs, they work just as well as my small egg flies. Thanks for the great video Dave!
Yes, to wild fish they do, however, I often fish fisheries where the fisher are usually stocked caught and killed the same day. Having tried a variety of natural imitation patterns this is still the only pattern that will catch fish. Leaving me wonder why they work so good. The trout pellet idea is kind of understandable because the olive/brown egg patterns also prove effective.
hey dave, this is an intresting egg pattern i have never seen it done this way. the other way to do it is double up the bottom then put diif coloregg yarn in middle the 2 on top and insteadof cutting them one at atime cut the 2 top and bottoms ones the themiddle . and also u tieit off in the front
hearts52 I'm not Dave, and Im acccually from the states but accually I've used this pattern with alot of stocked fish? Works well. and also I like to use it in Catch & Release waters, something that catches the fishes eye, and is some what as noticable as a San Juan Worm, one fly pattern that is very successful! Stocked fish straight from the truck are fooled by this pattern, a good choice!
Mr. Cammiss;
Thank you very much for all your informative videos. I'm learning fly tying from your videos which are just right for me, a beginner. This egg fly I can attest is the best way to catch our Great Lakes (Michigan) salmon (Chinook & Coho) when they move into the rivers to spawn in Sept-Oct. I especially enjoy your histories of the various flys and how they came to be. God bless.
dsangerknx 3 months ago
LOL
prokhk 10 months ago
I use the equivilent of 1 of those strands when making my eggs and I make them on a sz 12 scud hhook.. if I want some diff colors(blood dot or clown egg) i take a bodkin or my scissors and divide the colors i want into smaller strands then put them together and they the size of just 1 of those strands u use! damn! thats a huge egg. maybe you rivers are diff tho.
MClown69 10 months ago
What size hook do you use for this also what kind of hook, a scud hook?
Phantomg23 1 year ago
You also got to remember that this camera is zoomed in REALLY close, so most of the flies we see him tying are way smaller then what they look like.
sotik 1 year ago
those are so hard to make but they are rewarding
yooperkid96 1 year ago
many people are saying this fly is way to big to be an egg, but when they are large like this They look like clusters of eggs, they work just as well as my small egg flies. Thanks for the great video Dave!
cbizzkit 1 year ago
that egg is huge :S
andrewh4 2 years ago
They float??
vaughansp 2 years ago
no theyre wet flies
andrewh4 2 years ago
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thats an egg. it looks like the size of a chicken egg cause of how big it is. my eggs are a lil bit smaller them a pea.
paintball227 2 years ago
does it retain its shape when it gets wet???
pretty cool videos and very relaxing atmosphere. Thanks Dave...
ez2curanut 2 years ago 2
these work on stocked rainbows very well, this is probably because they look like trout pellets.
JoShs200 2 years ago
No, they look like fish eggs, that is the appeal to the trout, not because it looks like "trout pellets"
whurley25 2 years ago
Yes, to wild fish they do, however, I often fish fisheries where the fisher are usually stocked caught and killed the same day. Having tried a variety of natural imitation patterns this is still the only pattern that will catch fish. Leaving me wonder why they work so good. The trout pellet idea is kind of understandable because the olive/brown egg patterns also prove effective.
Just my two pence.
JoShs200 2 years ago 2
Ya I did not mean to seem rude to you, but I can now see why tv fish would look at it like that.
Good luck fishing!
whurley25 2 years ago
Thanks buddy, no offence taken.
Tight lines to you also.
JoShs200 2 years ago
what the...? what is that fly simulating? anyway, i've watched your videos since lesson 1 and i loved them.nice fly tying!! :D
schllimann 2 years ago
salmon eggs
xoskyeox 2 years ago
were can i find this type of yarn at??
MATTLOCKEANDDAN 3 years ago
hey dave, this is an intresting egg pattern i have never seen it done this way. the other way to do it is double up the bottom then put diif coloregg yarn in middle the 2 on top and insteadof cutting them one at atime cut the 2 top and bottoms ones the themiddle . and also u tieit off in the front
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eagleflies2 3 years ago
how do you fish this fly ?
hearts52 3 years ago
hearts52 I'm not Dave, and Im acccually from the states but accually I've used this pattern with alot of stocked fish? Works well. and also I like to use it in Catch & Release waters, something that catches the fishes eye, and is some what as noticable as a San Juan Worm, one fly pattern that is very successful! Stocked fish straight from the truck are fooled by this pattern, a good choice!
Jeter2rocks111 3 years ago
Hi xialong123
Thanks for your comment. Good to know that someone else ties these 'eggs'.It would be a dull old world if we all did things the same way.
Happy Fishing
DaveC.and the Team
topflyman 3 years ago
jeeze you put alot of yarn on that i usually use 2 piecesand for a different color dot like that half of one
xialong123 3 years ago
Hi 709709709
Thanks for your appreciation.
Dave C.and the Team
topflyman 3 years ago
great fly, great video, thanks!
709709709 3 years ago