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Egg Flesh fly patterns.

Egg and flesh families used where spawning or carcass food is seasonally relevant. Open a guide to identify the fly, see photos and variations, and learn when and how to fish it.

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Close photograph of a pink roe egg fly with a red center spot tied directly to a visible hook

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Pattern family · No universal size; match the target species, legal hook rules, tackle, and local forage

Egg Fly Patterns

A family separating tied yarn, chenille, veiled, clustered, and other hook-mounted egg imitations from loose beads and bait.Open guide

Macro side photograph of an exact Black Conehead Egg-Sucking Leech with a long mobile body and orange-red collar

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Egg Flesh · #6–12 in the reviewed Orvis single-hook bead recipe, Tube and salmon or steelhead forms vary; match tackle and regulations

Egg-Sucking Leech

A mobile leech or streamer body combined with a distinct contrasting egg-like front trigger, with bead, cone, tube, rabbit-strip, articulated, and Woolly-Bugger-based forms kept explicitly labeled.Open guide

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Egg Flesh · No universal size; match the target species, legal hook rules, tackle, and local forage

Estaz Egg

A bright egg-style fly built from dense sparkly Estaz or similar chenille around the hook.Open guide

Decaying pink salmon carcass lying among wet wood and leaves at the edge of Shorty Creek

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Pattern family · No universal size; match the observed tissue fragments, exact tied form, target fish, hook system, tackle, and regulations

Flesh Fly Patterns

A natural-food family for flies that suggest salmon-flesh fragments carried downstream after spawning, with compact, articulated, washed-out, fresh-color, and egg-and-flesh forms kept distinct.Open guide

Exact finished pale pink Glo Bug in a vise with a compact red center dot and visible curved hook

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Egg Flesh · Mustad C67S #12 in the reviewed Orvis recipe, match hook, yarn quantity, target fish, and current regulations rather than assuming one universal size

Glo Bug

A sparse clipped-yarn egg fly whose round body and optional contrasting center dot create a compact single-egg profile around a visible hook.Open guide

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photograph of many newly hatched translucent salmon alevins with large dark eyes, curved narrow bodies, and attached pale yolk sacs

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Pattern family · NOAA's Atlantic salmon presence table gives a 2–3 cm alevin range; other salmon species and development points vary, so verify the local species and never convert a photograph directly into one hook size

Salmon Alevin Patterns

A lifecycle-first alevin guide showing the tiny translucent fish and attached yolk sac clearly enough to separate it from an egg fly, free-feeding fry, parr, smolt, or generic orange-bead streamer.Open guide

Exact cream-and-orange Scrambled Eggs Sucker Spawn fly with looped yarn egg shapes held in a vise

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Egg Flesh · #12–14 in the reviewed Orvis trout recipe, Hook and finished cluster size must fit the target fish, local rules, and observed food

Sucker Spawn

A looped-yarn egg-cluster pattern whose connected bulges create a longer, irregular food profile than a single round egg fly.Open guide

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