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Glo Bug

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Egg

$2.25 each

The original yarn egg, still in every Michigan steelhead box in Oregon Cheese, Golden and Chartreuse per Current Works, with a #12 short-shank scud hook the all-around Pere Marquette size and #14 to #16 for low clear water. For salmon, Trails to Trout advises blue, black and chartreuse pre-spawn and red, pink and orange during the spawn, in #6 to #8. Cream and pale yellow versions carry through the winter and the April to May sucker spawn.

6 × $2.25 = $13.50

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Setups

Indicator nymphing · Chuck and duck · Euro / tight-line nymphing

When to fish it on the Two Hearted River
Part of the Two Hearted River box. Months the fly finder calls for this pattern here, for steelhead, pink salmon, rainbow trout (resident), chinook salmon, coho salmon.
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Pattern notes
Full hatch, egg, and forage links with sources.