Nuke Egg

EggTraverse City and Grand Rapids shop standard (Current Works, Nomad Anglers)

$2.25 each

A McFly Foam or Glo Bug yarn core under a yarn veil that goes translucent when wet, imitating the milky, non-viable eggs that make up most of the drift. Tied on a Gamakatsu C14S or TMC 2457 #8 to #12 (TMC 105 #6 to #10 for salmon); natural combinations for clear water, Chartreuse over Flame and Flame over Cerise for high or stained flows. Fish it behind spawning salmon from September through November, with aging-egg colors through winter, and natural steelhead-egg shades in March and April on the Manistee, Betsie, PM, Muskegon and Au Sable.

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Quantity

6 × $2.25 = $13.50

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Fish it for

Steelhead Brown trout Rainbow trout (resident)Chinook salmon Coho salmon Pink salmon Atlantic salmon

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.

Pattern notes

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