How to Tie: Micro Egg Pattern
What You’ll Need
Hook
Standard Nymph #14- 20 or 200 R
Thread
Uni- Thread 6/0, red
YARN
McFly Foam, early girl
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Step 1
Start with two pieces of McFly Foam that are approx. 2 inches long.
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Step 2
Dress your hook with thread.
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Step 3
Tie one piece of fly foam onto the opposite side of the hook from where you are sitting.
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Step 4
Tie a post around the base of the foam.
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Step 5
Before clinching the foam, move it to the side of the hook. You are basically creating a wing out of the foam when the fly is done.
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Step 6
The next three steps are the mirror of what was done to secure the foam on the other side of the hook.
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Step 7
Now you have the perfect “wing”.
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Step 8
Carefully cut the base of each “wing”, trying to be as equal with both cuts.
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Step 9
A perfect egg emerges that can easily be tied to a #18 or #20 hook.
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Step 10
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Step 11
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