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Ok, on this tip of the day, you might bust my jewels on it, like the Near Deer when I introduced some of y'all to it on here, but most peeps I think are going to like this one. This is not my secret egg pattern. But this the easiest egg pattern out there and it's a Perfect Egg ----> no matter how bad u suck at tying flies anyone can do it. I actually can tie this fly with out a vise. I can do it with my fingers alone. And I catch plenty of fish on it. Lots of y'all are catching fish on them as we speak.

I live near Hobby Lobby, and as some of y'all know, it's a mini gold mine of Flyfishing materials. You don't ever go there looking for something, you go there and stroll down every single isle. And you will find all kinds I near tying material, or in this case, a super short cut micro egg.

Ingredients:

1. Thread
2. Loctight Super Glue
3. # 22 dry fly hook/ - ya, very small small. The actual trout eggs are the size of BB's.These eggs are two times the sizes but a bit smaller. -and the trout want to eat them so they can bake on a grill.
3. Pom Pom's ( what? ) ya, PomPoms from Hobby Lobby.












Step 1- start a base thread on hook from the eye and back 25% toward the hook shank. Tie it off and cut thread.

Step 2- put a small drop of glue on the thread of the hook.

Step 3- pinch on Pom Pom till all the fibers to completely around the hook as picture above looks.

The perfect/ cheapest/ easiest Egg out there.

120 plus eggs for $0.99 and the price of the hooks $5 probably. Pays for the materials on the 4 eggs u make. Way way less mess and materials needed.


Don't over think wild stockers. They r not very smart. If it looks like food, they will eat it. Most of y'all sit in one spot of the river for hours. You need to power fish and cover water looking for the fish that are feeding and have not been caught the same day. I'll fish the Evening Hole within 30-45 mins and pick up a bunch of fish within that time and then I'm gone to another area.

On my trips, I walk you all over the river system and show u everything I know. I don't just take you to one hole in Spillway Creek for 2 hours and set u up and have u cast ur brains out, then set you in at the Bluffs for 2 hours. ( watch out for those lazy fellers. You don't learn much fishing two spots on the river. Keep on the move. If you can see the bottom, and u don't see a fish there, don't cast there!

I completely ignore the rising fish as 90% are 12 inchers and not what I'm looking to catch. Bigger fish are hugging the bottom eating those small risers! Lol








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You have to be kidding me. I can barely tie those little things to the line so I know I wount be able to glue them on a hook. I guess I will just have to keep buying from you lol

Drat! I was in Hot Springs 2 days ago. Forgot to buy "Pom Poms". Now I'm leaving for the river in an hour. Carey if you're at the river today you better watch out for me. I'm planning to mug ya! "Give me your "Pom Poms", %$#!!"
"My what?!!"
"Your "POM POMS!!"
"Hey man,... I don't know what you..."
"You know what I mean! Give me your "Pom Poms!"
"Brother, I'm sorry!...I don't know..."
"Is you're name Carey?"
"No,... man,... it's Dave.!
"Oh!... uh,... Buddy I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to scare you. Have you seen a guy named Carey?"

would adding some lead to the hook help get em to the bottom? Or do you add weight on the line?-p-

Gene, the one bit of advice that is spot on is to go deep. If you can, add lead wire to the egg fly. You would still do good by adding split shot. I tie an egg pattern on a Gamakatsu #12 hook, so I will tell you that tiny is not always best. A pink San Juan worm is killer!!

PM me your phone number. I would like to fish with you at LMF when you go. Tie up some soft hackles & hare's ear patterns. 3x tippet is what you'll need most times.

Not giving away any more secrets.

JR

I use split shots to get them down. Or the ND will sink them as a dropper.

I'm in Vegas. Won't be back on the river till the 4 th.

I fish a lot of orange and olive jig flies;catch a few fish that way; soft hackles, olive streamers with a beadhead in sizes 16 and 18 are my top producer; not a very good trout fisherman; I'm old and slow with two really bad knees so I wear out a hole rather than move a lot. I detest crowds so I fish mudholes rather than going kung-fu; its fun though; had a nice 8 point buck jump right into the hole I was fishing;another group of deer climbed the cliffs right above me like mountain goats; pretty cool!-p-

Another note: when getting the PomPoms pick the bag with the smallest ones. Some of them are to big.

Well, just got back from BB. The little bitty eggs I tied didn't do nothin'. Caught one. I think they're too lumpy the way I do it, but standard micro-eggs (which are bigger than the ones Carey's describing) weren't working either. I was bouncing bottom pretty regularly, don't think that was it.

Ended up with my old standby, tungsten-bead brown midge larva fished deep behind a flashy nymph. Caught a 19 - 20 incher at the upper end of the bluffs in the deep pocket. Fought it for 10 minutes. My arm got tired.

Went down to the Evening Hole to meet my fishing partner. He had also caught a good sized fish, on a hopper. He'd seen it feeding on the surface and targeted it. We went to lunch in Hochatown. I thought we were going to go back and try to get into a hatch, but we came home instead. All in all a good day of fishing.
jonbo

Jon, it wasn't your technique, it was simply all the fish were gone.

The few that was there are full of hooks and salmon eggs, and corn and earth worms and lead sinkers and ....

Denny

Well, then, I guess we had a good day!

I fished Monday and Tuesday with my dog and (sometimes) my wife. Magick the dog had a lot of fun visiting new humans. I visited a few fish each day, but not many. Park was crowded and I didn't have the car to escape. I 'caught' a 20lb test line rigged with a 3" spoon and enough weight to get to the bottom of the Columbia. I guess Chinook have invaded the LMF. BWO's everyday from about 11am till 2pm. Had fun chatting up a few new people. I did have the delight of seeing a 4 year old with a new snoopy rod catch a 21" bow in the cold hole. He was so excited he fell in the river when his dad tried to release it!

More fishies expected on Thursday. A bunch of golfers are headed back up for the long weekend.

I saw the Eastern guy fishing with the gold spoon and 6'6" Bass rod with baitcaster in S-Creek early last week. He ditched it once his buddies lit 'em up on E-Worms.

They filled a 5 gallon bucket with 20" trout.

D

check your PM's. i think we may have met you