Mike Schmidt’s Egg Sucking Minnow
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Tied By Darrell Olson
Hook: Kona BC2, Size 8
Thread: Veevus 70 Denier, Red
Materials- bead: Nymph-Head Heavy Metal Tungsten Bead, 4.0mm, Shrimp Pink throat: Poly Pro Yarn, Red underwing: Senyo Laser Dub, White underwing 2: Sybai Tan Ghost Hair overwing: Senyo Laser Dub, Tan eyes: Fish Skull Living Eyes, 5mm, Ice
Notes:
There is a fly called “The Egg-Sucking Leech” and it is a curious thing because it imitates something not actually found in nature; however minnows do eat fish eggs as do other fish species. This could be the reason Mike Schmidt designed the Egg Sucking Minnow is my guess.