“I Bleed Black and Gold” Egg
Recipe: “I Bleed Black and Gold” Egg
Hook: Stout Egg or Scud Hook, size 10 Eagle Claw used here.*
Body: Yellow and Black Egg Yarn
Thread: Fluorescent Pink
Tail: Hot Pink Marabou
Other: Large Black Glass Bead (from craft store)
Notes: After installing the bead head, I like to wrap some small lead wire on the hook shank (about 6 or 7 wraps) and then push this into the hollow part of the bead-head. Then build up a small “neck” of thread behind the bead to keep it in place.
Wrap a base of the tying thread. Tie the egg yarn in on the top of the hook with two tight wraps. Then wind thread around these wraps -under the yarn (but over the shank) almost like you’re making a parachute post. This keeps the egg on the top of the shank and out of the hook gape.
This fly is based on the Steeler Glo-Bug that I first heard saw on Charles Meck’s site. I’ve changed it up a bit – but the idea for the color scheme is from him.
*When in a pinch (or to save money) use inexpensive Eagle Claw, plain shank hooks (unsnelled of course). They’re very stout, strong hooks, that hold up to fighting those steelhead very well. The advantage is that you can usually get these more readily than fly-tying hooks (at the big retailers).
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