Egg PatternbeginnerPacific Northwest
Glo Bug
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Matched on Pacific Northwest, egg flies, trout. Pacific Northwest shop with a large online catalog and steelhead/trout regional relevance.
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Matched on egg flies, trout, egg. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
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The Glo Bug is a tuft of yarn on a hook. It imitates a salmon egg. It catches everything in the river. And it sparks more philosophical debates about the nature of fly fishing than any pattern tied with actual feathers. On Pacific Northwest rivers during the salmon spawn, trout, steelhead, and Dolly Varden line up downstream of the redds and gorge on drifting eggs like children under a broken pinata. The Glo Bug drifts among the naturals and gets eaten with the same thoughtless enthusiasm. Is it fly fishing? The fish do not care, and their opinion is the only one that matters when you are standing in a river in November.
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Where to Fish It
Sandy River
OR · Coastal Stream
Cowlitz River
WA · Tailwater
Skagit River
WA · Spey River
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