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the blood nut egg fly is a pattern that was developed back in the early 80s and it came
about because of the investigation of looking at trout eggs and noticing that many charred eggs
had a very distinct yolk in it and then was surrounded by the albumin not all eggs look
like that but some eggs do so I attempted to imitate those eggs and I noticed that
there was translucency around it and that's what I've tried to accomplish by tying the blood Dot
I use an orange thread which is Danville 210 flat wax thread and I started right in the center of
the hook the hook is a heavy wire scud hook anywhere from size 20 to size 10 depending on
the size of the egg that you want to construct you uh put the thread on in the center of the shank of
the hook and come back just above the eye or I'm sorry of the Barb of the hook in the back if you
go any farther back you will distort the shape and silhouette of a round egg and make it oblong
now what I'm attempting to do I'm using glow bug material and I use the egg color as my base
material and I cut a length of it about three and a half or four inches long now a little trick that
I've learned is that I want to split this material and if I have the material right down the middle
it normally doesn't tear or tangle and I set the other one aside and then I'll split it again
and sometimes I'll split it again depending on how small of a fly I want to make but now I have much
less material and I'm trying to occupy the same space with less density of other egg patterns
I tie it in above the Barb of the hook and I can let go of it with a couple of turns and the trick
is don't over build your thread the heavy Danville flat wax thread allows you to make two simple
turns and hold it in place you formulate a little bubble on the back of the fly and pinch it with
your fingers and use the snap pinch method where you're pinching the line in between your fingers
and then snapping it down and you make that bubble your next aspect of it is to force the material
back over Fanning the material over that bubble and maintaining the round shape of the silhouette
in in that perspective two wraps you then take your contrasting yolk color and place that on top
and again secure it with only two wraps but because of the heavy dender of this material I
can actually cinch it down and then take your glow bug egg color again and do the same thing as the
bubble in front of it you want to spread it around it like the Fanning of a turkey feather when
they're showing their spread or a peacock feather and then take your whip finisher whip finish it
trim the material and I cut the thread in the egg material in one cut reach down inside
and there's a simple blood dot pattern that's extremely effective on Steelhead and trout
when you take it and you immerse it in water
the real magic of the fly comes out of it once it's saturated and that the fly
takes on a transparent albumin look and the yolk is solid contrasting color in the center
of the fly and it's just a very accurate pattern for imitating eggs foreign [Applause] [Music]