Easy Easy Easy eggs

1) Package of Pom Poms from Hobby Lobby(available in 5mm and 7mm). I prefer the 5mm for our area but your mileage may vary.(7mm shown in pictures)
2) Simply slip pom pom thru point of hook up to threaded area on hook(glue also if you prefer)
3) Tie off
Will let you know how they hold up but they seem to hold on well. Available in pink, yellow, red. Variety pack has all those colors plus brown, green, etc.. Brown might be nice as a 'food pellet fly'. White might look like a marshmallow(if you are so inclined)
Those of you that tie a lot of flies with egg yarn may not find the process that much easier, but if you struggle with the yarn this is very easy.
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zap a gap works for me. I also put a little sparkle yarn on behind the egg to make sparkle eggs.

Nice un! Even I can tie that...I think!

After getting used to tying them I got a some pretty decent ones, if i do say so myself. 5mm pom pom on size 18 curved hook with bead:
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I have tried this. For some reason the zap seems to give up after a bit and not hold.

I build up a little thread, glue, slide the pom pom on and then build up a little thread before and after it. The bead holds them especially well and some thread after seems to work like a charm. Note: I have NOT fished them yet.

I tied 'em much bigger for the salmon and browns coming out of Lake Michigan. Maybe building up a "dam" in the back will help the hold. They never came off the front, just slid around a bunch like the glue wasn't there.

How about slitting it and laying in the glue...perhaps the gel form ...then the hook?

Hate to post the obvious, but a glo-bug is a 15 second fly with my bad eyes... A friend and guide on the Kenai River ties them in 7 seconds when he does them by the batch... and stays engaged at the vise for hours doing it... A box of hooks lasts him no time at all...

Start thread
Clip tag
Soft wrap McFly Foam
Wrap twice around soft wrap and hook
Pull straight UP on thread
Make two or three horizontal turns around thread
Whip finish
Add drop of cement
Cut Just once straight across the yarn at the radius of the desired glo-bug
Toss finished egg in a pile and mount the next hook

Great scissors and counting thread wraps really speeds things up...
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hap, I have been debating on whether I should post what you just did. I am by no means a speed tyer but, I know I can tie faster than the steps layed out for the pom pom fly. I am not saying a Mcfly Foam egg, or a Glo-Bug egg is better than a pom pom, but with just a bit of effort it is faster.

I am not as fast as Charlie Craven in this video, but you get the idea...
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Sharp scissors are the number one ingredient to a great egg pattern. In my opinion.

On my best day I cant do a 15 second egg.

hap...perhaps you would know considering where you are....don't you Alaska folks put a lot of stock in the exact color of the eggs?

I put a lot of stock in having my eggs be the right color. For more than a dozen years now I have fished exactly ONE color of glo-bug across the western US, with most excellent results. And unlike Hap, I can't tie mine in 15 seconds (mine aren't mcflyfoam), but they have been known to last for a couple dozen trout or more before succumbing to teeth.

With winter just around the corner the Whitefish out here in the west will start spawning. Tie up some really small cream colored eggs, about 1/8 inch max in size. Trout and Whitefish gobble them all winter long almost to February.

Larry ---sagefisher---

There are times when exact color is absolutely required... Hitting the tip of a red Sharpie to the egg to create an "eye" has been shown to make a difference, too. Most shoot for 6-8mm in diameter, but tiny is often good, especially when fishing smaller-mouthed grayling during the salmon spawn. Bigger is of course the standard steelhead egg.

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Originally Posted by DUB

For me a Chartreuse egg for the Whitey spawn(now), and a Yellow egg after that till run-off.

caught two weeks ago. 3rd largest of the day...All three were bigger than the State record of 5lbs 2oz
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I have a little Glo-Bug yarn left, but I use almost exclusively McFly foam, and have not had any durability issues.

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Staple a too-big dorsal on that thing and you would have a dandy grayling! The color is perfect! ;)
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I did mention that using the egg yarn can be easier.....didn't I :) . Will report after this coming weekend on how well they work.

Update: They fished well. Caught fish and held up well. Held their shape much better than yarn. Didn't fray up like yarn.