How to fish an egg

Goo, stink, eggs, bait — no
matter what you call it, salmon
Toe attracts gamefish like a
magnet.

Most steelheaders begin their
careers using roc. It’s a good

way 10 Start since the novice.

fisherman will soon find out
where his quarry is hiding if he
is using eggs. The problem is
roe is so deadly and capable of
catching so many fish that
fishermen easily become ad-
dicted to it.

The dyed- “in-wool fisher of
foe cures it according to a jeal-
ously guarded secret recipe.
Today I am going to iet you in
on my tried-and-true recipe and
tell you how to fish it.

First you will have to pur-
chase a package of number
eight, standard length fly hooks
of the 2x stout variety.

Next you will need some fine
chenille, a silk material woven
on a thread core that looks like
a spincless pipecleaner or a cat-
terpillar pelt You can track
down chenille in craft stores
where it sells for pennies a yard
but it always seems too wide oF
the wrong hue.

Ultimately it is easier to pay
10 times as much at your
nearest tackle store and instant-
ly find what you are looking
for. Buy small chenille in fluo-
rescent colours: red, orange,
pink and white are best.

And while you're at the sports
shop pick up some fine lead
wire, (the best kind available
comes on 100 yard spools and
is called lead core trolling line),
and a package of white
marabou, which, incidentally, is
not plumage from the African
marabou stork at all, but the un-
der feathers of your plain old,
poultry farm variety gobbler.

Back home at the vice, cover
the hook shank with orange
thread, peel the dacron from the
trolling line and then wrap five
tums of the newly exposed fine
diameter lead wire on the hook,
then secure this by overwrap-
ping it with thread,

The fly fishing purists, the
mien of cane and tweed, consid-
er weighting flies a practice on
par with origina] sin, but they
were fishing bug-centred trout,
We're tying an egg; to make it
act like one we need weight.”

: Next, secure the chenille,
wrap it back and forth until you
have a small orb, then pinch of

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The Skeena
Angler

by Rob Brown

a lille bit the phoney marabou
and fasten it just behind the cye
of the hook. Finish the head of
the fly with a-few wraps of
thread then put a dollop of glue
on the windings,

Try to apply this glue in well
ventilated surroundings — if
your dottle is like all the brands
I’ve used over the ycats, it will
be covered with Jolly Rogers,
but it won't tell you the hazards
of breathing the vapours: im-
potence and premature hairloss
are two of my guesses.

Okay. If you've followed my
instructions you will have a
cute little fake egg in front of
you, Now tie a dozen more in

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of bright wool or a some kind
of miniature float onto the
nylon.

A long cast is not necessary
for this technique: cast only as
much line as you can contro! to
ensure that the your egg will
come bouncing back to you un-
hindered by the pull of the fine.
A throw of approximately forty
fect angled steeply upstream so
that it will not be more than
twenty or so feet out when it
passes by is about all that can
be handled effectively by an
angler fishing a nine-foot rod.

After the throw keep the
wrinkles out of your line and

Where you find salmon you will find trout sifting be-
hind them waiting to inhale the eggs that miss the
gravel. That is where you want to fish your egg.

the same manner but vary the
colour, You will be surprised
how much difference it can
make out on the stream.

Slip your flies into your pock-
et and head out to a stream
where salmon are excavating
the gravel. If you have one take
a long, supple rod for they are
the best tools for this kind of
work.

Where you find salmon you
will find trout sitting behind
them waiting to inhale the eggs
that miss the gravel, That is
where you want to fish your

epg. The eggs free float
downstream. That is haw you
must fish your eggfly.

Many anglers try to reach the
bottom with a sinking line. This
will catch a few fish, but a trout
can inhale an egg and spit it out
before you can say Doc Sprat-
ley.

For this reason your ¢gg
should be fished on a long

Jeader of a fine diameter at-.
tached to a floating; line. Before...

you pitch the egg upstream and

guide it dead drift into the
maws of eager trout, fasten a bit

watch the indicator like a hawk.
If it does anything other than
float freely downstream — if
you note the slightest, almost
imperceptible hesitation or
twitch — strike quickly and
firmly.

By firmly, I don’t mean you
should pull the lips off the fish,
just make a precise, crisp up-
ward movement with your
wrist. Sometimes you will find
yourself attached to the bottom
or to a twig or to the wrong part
of a salmon, but more often
than not you will be into a trout
or a char or a steelhead.

Egg fi fishing with a fly rod re-
quires no dyes, no cooking or
curing, your hands stay clean
and odourless, your waders
remain free of sticky bits of
skein. You don’t have to gut
rob any fernale salmon and you
don’t tisk impaling undersized
fish on hooks that are propor-
tionately too large.

This is active fishing requir-
ing sharp senses, careful
_ wading and skillful manipula-
tion of hand, line and rod; it is
full of surprises and you can al-
ways get better at it

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