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Blood Dot Egg
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Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
Matched on Alaska, egg flies, rainbow trout. Alaska-specific fly shop with fly categories for trout, char, grayling, salmon, and steelhead.
Big Y Fly Co.
Matched on egg flies, trout, egg. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
AZ Fly Shop
Matched on egg flies, trout, trout. Arizona and Southwest shop lead for desert trout, bass, canal carp, and warmwater patterns.
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The Blood Dot Egg is a Glo Bug with a single, crucial upgrade: a tiny red or orange dot in the center that imitates the developing embryo visible in a fertilized salmon egg. Trout, it turns out, are connoisseurs. They can distinguish between a fresh, unfertilized egg and one that has been developing for a few days, and they prefer the latter. This fly caters to that refined palate with a detail that seems trivial and makes all the difference.
Quick Facts
Where to Fish It
Russian River
AK · Salmon River
Kenai River
AK · Salmon River
Iliamna Lake
AK · Lake Outlet
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Related Reading
region guide
Alaska: The Last Frontier of Fly Fishing
Alaska is fly fishing distilled to its most primal form. Five species of Pacific salmon, trophy rainbow trout fattened on salmon eggs and flesh, Arctic grayling in waters that have never seen a hatchery truck — this is the complete guide to planning and fishing the Last Frontier.
species science
The Great Migration: Pacific Salmon Life Cycles
Pacific salmon are born in gravel, grow in rivers, vanish into the ocean for years, then navigate thousands of miles back to the exact stream where they hatched — to spawn and die. Their lifecycle is the most dramatic story in freshwater biology, and understanding it makes you a better angler.
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