Knotted Egg Revisited
I’m always searching about “sussing out” the best materials with which to tie my flies. Sometimes I find new materials that look promising, but which turn out to be no better than the materials I have on hand. Other times I really do find something that appeals to me. This is one of those times. I was looking in the FeatherCraft catalog and spotted “Trilobal Antron Chenille.” (https://www.feather-craft.com/wecs.php?store=feacraft&action=display&target=TD009)
Hmm, this looked potentially like a better material for my Knotted Egg rather than the straight cotton chenille I had been using. And it is! It’s firmer and of course offers the advantage of the trilobal yarn. There are three sizes: small, medium, and large. The difference between small and medium is not as great as between medium and large. These three sizes offer an opportunity to tie three sizes of egg patterns. Small makes an egg of about 4mm, medium makes one about 6mm, and large yield one of around 9mm.
I tied all of them on a size 8 red hook for the photograph so that the relative size of each could be seen. For fishing, I’d tie the small on a size 12 or 14, the medium on a size 10 or 12, and large on a size 8 or 6.
Small, top; medium, middle; large, bottom.