Classic Wet Fly
Egg
Tied by Christian Andrews
Egg recipe
| Hook | #10 sprout |
|---|---|
| Thread | claret |
| Tag | gold tinsel |
| Tail | two gray duck feather barbs |
| Body | orange floss, teased out at the thorax |
| Wings | gray duck quill |
About this fly
a trout pattern from Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury with ingredients help from Flies by J. Edson Leonard
What the Egg imitates
- Egg (adult)
Tied for: Trout (general)
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.











