Tying and Fishing the Simple Estaz Egg
If you're heading out to the river this weekend, you definitely need to have an estaz egg or two tucked away in your fly box. It's one of those patterns that looks almost too basic to be effective, but anyone who has spent time swinging flies for steelhead or drifting for big browns knows that simplicity often wins the day. There is something about the way that translucent, pearlescent material catches the light that just triggers a fish's predatory—or perhaps just hungry—instincts. ...