Fly Tying lesson 13 for beginners. In this fly tying tutorial Dave demonstrates an “Egg Fly”.
Nor-Vise Fly Tying System. Created by Norm Norlander, this is a great tool for any fly fisherman who wants to learn how to tie their own flies. Website: www.nor-vise.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Mr. Cammiss;
Thank you very much for all your informative videos. I’m learning fly tying from your videos which are just right for me, a beginner. This egg fly I can attest is the best way to catch our Great Lakes (Michigan) salmon (Chinook & Coho) when they move into the rivers to spawn in Sept-Oct. I especially enjoy your histories of the various flys and how they came to be. God bless.
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I use the equivilent of 1 of those strands when making my eggs and I make them on a sz 12 scud hhook.. if I want some diff colors(blood dot or clown egg) i take a bodkin or my scissors and divide the colors i want into smaller strands then put them together and they the size of just 1 of those strands u use! damn! thats a huge egg. maybe you rivers are diff tho.
What size hook do you use for this also what kind of hook, a scud hook?
You also got to remember that this camera is zoomed in REALLY close, so most of the flies we see him tying are way smaller then what they look like.
those are so hard to make but they are rewarding
many people are saying this fly is way to big to be an egg, but when they are large like this They look like clusters of eggs, they work just as well as my small egg flies.
Thanks for the great video Dave!
that egg is huge :S
no theyre wet flies
They float??
thats an egg. it looks like the size of a chicken egg cause of how big it is. my eggs are a lil bit smaller them a pea.
does it retain its shape when it gets wet???
pretty cool videos and very relaxing atmosphere. Thanks Dave…
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Thanks buddy, no offence taken.
Tight lines to you also.
Ya I did not mean to seem rude to you, but I can now see why tv fish would look at it like that.
Good luck fishing!
Yes, to wild fish they do, however, I often fish fisheries where the fisher are usually stocked caught and killed the same day. Having tried a variety of natural imitation patterns this is still the only pattern that will catch fish. Leaving me wonder why they work so good. The trout pellet idea is kind of understandable because the olive/brown egg patterns also prove effective.
Just my two pence.
No, they look like fish eggs, that is the appeal to the trout, not because it looks like “trout pellets”
these work on stocked rainbows very well, this is probably because they look like trout pellets.
what the…? what is that fly simulating? anyway, i’ve watched your videos since lesson 1 and i loved them.nice fly tying!! 😀
were can i find this type of yarn at??
hey dave, this is an intresting egg pattern i have never seen it done this way. the other way to do it is double up the bottom then put diif coloregg yarn in middle the 2 on top and insteadof cutting them one at atime cut the 2 top and bottoms ones the themiddle . and also u tieit off in the front
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hearts52 I’m not Dave, and Im acccually from the states but accually I’ve used this pattern with alot of stocked fish? Works well. and also I like to use it in Catch & Release waters, something that catches the fishes eye, and is some what as noticable as a San Juan Worm, one fly pattern that is very successful! Stocked fish straight from the truck are fooled by this pattern, a good choice!
how do you fish this fly ?
Hi xialong123
Thanks for your comment. Good to know that someone else ties these ‘eggs’.It would be a dull old world if we all did things the same way.
Happy Fishing
DaveC.and the Team
jeeze you put alot of yarn on that i usually use 2 piecesand for a different color dot like that half of one
im sure this tool is perfect but, as a luthier and restorer, i can recognise a truly master crafsman when makes something dificult looks easy
LOL i remember years ago when tying flies i used to think a machine like this would be awesome and then i thought …. na it wouldnt work because your securing thread would get spun around aswell…. but you have that other stand the other side to keep it from doing that… very clever 🙂
i was thinking of getting back into it … but dont think i would bother getting one of these machines…. nice job though
Pretty neat indeed!