Egg Hatches

jaredoconnor

jaredoconnor

Peabrain Chub
We got these eggs comin in.

I barely know what I'm doing, when it comes to fishing egg patterns. Halp. 🐣
  1. Are your eggs weighted?
  2. What is your most successful rig?
  3. Does color matter?
  4. What are the main diameters, colors and hook sizes, around here?
  5. Do trouts ever take them mid column or only on the bottom?
 
I don't fish them a lot, but here is my input. @clarkman has some stuff I've tried to copy, and others as well. Search Eggstasy and f-n-f stuff.
  1. Are your eggs weighted? about 1/2 and 1/2 (a bead).
  2. What is your most successful rig? Try an unweighted on point about 12- 18" behind your favorite heavy stonefly (pat's for me) or fall caddis. Unweighted in the middle doesn't do much for me.
  3. Does color matter? Different fish have different color eggs, and they change over time as they age and whether they are fertile. Have a few pale and pink shades, and orange shades. I don't have luck with red unless it's balls 'o fire. But a red dot on any, bingo.
  4. What are the main diameters, colors and hook sizes, around here? mostly 10-12's for me.
  5. Do trouts ever take them mid column or only on the bottom? Anywhere in the bottom 1/3'rd is best. I've taken a surprising amount on the middle dropper, usually however if I can see it well it's too shallow.
 
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eggstasy. 2-3 wraps, unweighted, that's it. hang off of a tool fly (preferably one that works as well).
 
Tom Butler said:
I don't fish them a lot, but here is my input. @clarkman has some stuff I've tried to copy, and others as well. Search Eggstasy and f-n-f stuff.
  1. Are your eggs weighted? about 1/2 and 1/2 (a bead).
  2. What is your most successful rig? Try an unweighted on point about 12- 18" behind your favorite heavy stonefly (pat's for me) or fall caddis. Unweighted in the middle doesn't do much for me.
  3. Does color matter? Different fish have different color eggs, and they change over time as they age and whether they are fertile. Have a few pale and pink shades, and orange shades. I don't have luck with red unless it's balls 'o fire. But a red dot on any, bingo.
  4. What are the main diameters, colors and hook sizes, around here? mostly 10-12's for me.
  5. Do trouts ever take them mid column or only on the bottom? Anywhere in the bottom 1/3'rd is best. I've taken a surprising amount on the middle dropper, usually however if I can see it well it's too shallow.
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or just hang it ~3' under an indi in the middle of a deep eddy....but you didn't hear that from me.
 
jaredoconnor said:
30 feet of 8lb Amnesia, Oros bobber, 5.5x tippet, tungsten bead jig egg. Recipe for a good time.
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Funny you mention oro bobbers. Just bought some and they work great. Then again so do airlocks (I've never lost a washer or nut).
 
Gear guys fish big beads.....so don't go small.

Big fish----big bait.

And yes they hook a lot of fish on beads.
Almost too many......almost.
 
clarkman said:
Funny you mention oro bobbers. Just bought some and they work great. Then again so do airlocks (I've never lost a washer or nut).
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The issue with Airlocks is that they spin, on light tippet. After a day of fishing your favorite euro hole, with 5.75x tippet, it's an absolute mess.
 
You guys and your bobbers.:D Put on something muddled instead. Something you can see, doesn't matter if it fishes wet. @Scottp has so many things I'd like to try. Anyway, Indicator fly, 3.5' tool fly, 20" egg.
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2/5 to the muddler.20221007_1stmud.jpg
OK, sometimes it gets messy, a little one fell off mid-air and poof, tangle.
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jaredoconnor said:
The issue with Airlocks is that they spin, on light tippet. After a day of fishing your favorite euro hole, with 5.75x tippet, it's an absolute mess.
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Well, yes they do, but it's pretty easy to design a leader where that's never an issue.
 
clarkman said:
Eh, I'm a [mostly] equal opportunity fisher.
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If I was fishing different places, bigger water, I may find myself running an indicator again, I do carry them. I really think it depends a lot on what you're trying to get your flies to do.
 
Tom Butler said:
I really think it depends a lot on what you're trying to get your flies to do.
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Agreed ...especially for your water.


Or it depends on how lazy I'm feeling at the moment (switching from bobber to euro or vice versa).
 
jaredoconnor said:
We got these eggs comin in.

I barely know what I'm doing, when it comes to fishing egg patterns. Halp. 🐣
  1. Are your eggs weighted?
  2. What is your most successful rig?
  3. Does color matter?
  4. What are the main diameters, colors and hook sizes, around here?
  5. Do trouts ever take them mid column or only on the bottom?
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1) never ever weighted. Ever. Kills the action.
2) basically an ultra light bobber dog rig different then what would be considered a typical indicator rig, large indicator, about 1.5x the deepest part of the bucket from indicator to weight, 24” 10# flouro to bead and #4 owner mosquito hook snelled 2.5” behind bead. Indicator leads the drift, weight ticks bottom, bead washes around, bobber shoots off and you set the hook
3) absolutely it does, that’s why I have been painting beads for 15 years and can’t imagine going back
4)6-10mm depending on what species is digging
5) bottom, roll the marble downhill. Of course you can catch fish otherwise but you will leave a ton of fish on the table, and likely the heavies. Loose eggs tumble and wash around the gravel, trout know this. They likely took up feeding position before the salmon even began the dig, they are hyper aware of what’s happening down there. If you want to be in the game you should
too.
 
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