Egg pattern

[Bill Babler]

Here I am again expermenting with my clients. Power generation was a bit late coming today, but it didn't matter, as we had a smattering of wind to hop the bug a bit.

Jim and Dave Well's were my lab rats today and they preformed at Top level.

We had 40 plus fish on flat water and when the creek finely moved, it was just not the free for all it was yesterday.

The ole size 12 scud in ginger still caught fish, as it has for the past several months, but I just had to have another pattern that would get a look.

I have over 10 different color egg patterns that I tie, and if you think an egg is an egg, think again.

Early Girl is a very lite pink egg that is almost netural and it was the one today. It outproduced the sucd at a rate of over 3 to 1. I tried several other colors and it was the appropreate color for the flow conditon, that we had today.

Darker and brighter eggs just would not get the fish to respond on the clear mid to slow moving water. Early girl from Clay Banks thru Fall Creek, was the ticket.

On one pass in the two mile section we had 20 plus takes with about 9 really nice bows hooked, and one, 18 inch brown. I continued to alter the egg colors, but today was the day for Early Girl.

If you think they are not on an egg pattern, during generation, just keep switching colors and see if it makes the difference between bite or no bite.

[Thom]

I will be at taney next week (6th) and one of my go to offerings is the egg fly. I do the best on a multicolored version. I pull three or four different colors of yarn through a 1/4 to 5/16 tube with the bright red warn placed so that it forms a dot somewhere on the back of the fly. a tungsten bead on a #18 2487 scud hook (or 1/80 lead jig) and Two wraps of kevlar around the outside of the yarn then end to end and around the eye. These multi's have never failed to have work especially with water running. Just need to get them down near the bottom and to the side or ahead of the boat and not dragging.

I have several other colors and pink, sallmon, and peach also work well. I will post what has worked and a picture of the best when I return on the 15th.

[Bill Babler]

Really good infor about the multi-color patterns. A hot red dot on any of the patterns you described has worked very well for me in the past. Also using a bead or a small size 12 or 14 jig head can be very effective.

Yesterday, they would not touch the egg if it were on a jig or beadheaded. I had to run a solid color on a size 14, 2487 and split shot about 1ft. above the egg. We were drifting 4ft. water, so I ran my egg about 8ft. deep. On a rare occacasion, the split would hit bottom and fool us, but most of the time, that was the correct depth, for the drifting boat on 1 generator.

Try tying your eggs on McFly Foam, and you will throw out all that yarn you are running thru the straw. Your patterns, will be as tight as a tick. Thanks for all the good tips, looking forward to seeing how you did.

[ryan]

I fished last monday while they were running a ton of water and a big ol pink egg on a jig head is the only thing they would touch I caught 4 fish on a san juan worm but the rest were on egg patter pink and white