Does anyone have a tutorial or know the to tie the egg pattern that utilizes a trout bead? They show it briefly in metalhead...looks like a orange trout bead somehow attached to the hook with estaz wrapped underneath and the egg is in the middle.
i would say you should use thick mono with melted end so that the bead sits on it. Never tried but defiantly looks like a killer egg pattern. I personaly fish glow bugs and glue eggs when water is clear.
forget the beads and get a glue gun. Using the glue to form the egg and adding other material for the spawn. Works great and the flies last for a long time.
PS I dont fish eggs for steelhead but if I had to this is how I would put them together.
I do swing, all of the fall and most of the winter. But after a couple months of getting it handed to me I always like to break out the indy rod this time of year and put a few fish in the net. Always get bored of glo bugs and nuke eggs so i wanted to try something different.
Its pretty tuff at the end of the run to bring a fish to the swing. There is nothing wrong with matching the hatch. Sometimes you have to go where the fish are. Most of the rivers I can drive to are all but done. Just small windows of moving fish but most have made it to where it all happens for them. I am not much into drifting flies but this time of year its pretty much your only option. The glue gun was not a joke and for egg patterns its a pretty cool way of getting it done. Drifting an egg is no differant than nymphing a stonefly, what ever floats your boat. good tying
How can get bored of swinging flies! For me it's not just the catching it's more the enjoyment of the swing. Is it weird that I never get bored even after a long dry spell.
it was indeed wasnt it norse,
that man lives by the saying ,....
your hook your rules----------but just call it what it is .
spoken like an old traditionalist
me
IF you use the glue gun, keep a small glass of cold water near you. When you get the shape right just dip the hot glue to set it. (not that I've ever tried it. )
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