Clown Egg
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2016
- Detailed instructions for tying a Clown Egg.
Hook: 1X-short scud/pupa hook (here, a Dai-Riki 135), size 14.
Thread: 70 Denier or 8/0, fluorescent orange.
Body: McFly Foam, clown package.
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I watched at least a half dozen videos before yours and I just couldn't get it. The tool makes a huge difference.
I hate the wasted material tying egg patterns. This is a game changer!!!! Thank you!
Dude u are one of the best tutorial channels keep it up man thank u for helping me better my tying skills
Can’t wait to try this. Flagler is the King of tying tricks.
friggin music is priceless..
Can't wait to try this!! Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic way to tie eggs!
Great video, never seen this technique before! Tying eggs looks tricky, and some videos show to use a ton of foam, so I've always just stuck with Y2Ks, but definitely gonna try some egg now!
What a great trick as always!
Lynch showed me this technique a few years ago, using a hollow Papermate pen. They have the perfect diameter for Steelhead eggs in size 10 and 12, and very cheap to make. We use this technique exclusively for all our egg patterns. I do like the taper of the hackle pliers, which appears to make tying the material on a bit cleaner.
+Alan Rohloff I have found for smaller eggs, I want to get as much compression on the material as possible. At the same time, the less material I have to take wraps around to attach it to the hook, the better. I have used pens, straws, flexible clear plastic tubing and even Jersey beach whistles in the past but with the McFlyFoam, I get the best results by compressing the ever loving $%&* out of it prior to taking that first cross wrap of the tie in process. Tell Lynch I said hi. Sorry I missed you guys at the shows. Lancaster maybe?
Oh man that was REALLY cool!
Love it Tim! Just retrieved two dried up high-liters from the waste basket to be recycled into egg-tools. Might be interesting to tie up some of these with a small marabou and flash tail for bluegills. A white or yellow puff with a black center would make a nice eye on a streamer as well. Thanks, Hank
I seen a guy at the end of tying the egg pattern he flicked on the vice and it helped between day and night, it made the pattern even out almost perfectly
Haha! McFlyfoam and I had it out several years ago. Now, I use latex gloves to handle the crazy stuff. Oh...and the video is great. Hopefully, the clown egg won't be banned in school districts across the US!
Great job and info! Thanks
THAT'S AWESOME... VERY COOL IDEA ...FOR THE EGG MAKER...LOVE IT...THANKS..
amazing Tim
Thanks for the brilliant video great help to a novice like me .
Love it. Gotta try this technique
It was the music for me!! 😂 awesome video!
This is brilliant!
great little tool. Much easier than a coffee stirrer. I will have to decide what I want to give up as far as those electrical clips (hackle pliers). Thanks for the tip. You put out a quality video. Wish I had a voice similar to yours. I would probably make some video. There are enough tiers out there though. All the best to you and yours. Sean
Hey Sean, there will never be enough fly tiers out there. I would watch your video…if you ever decide your voice is good enough, and make a video.
Innovative, bravo!
Glo-bug makes a dispenser that is perfect for this, so that you won't have to ruin a pair of hackle pliers, and is probably easier to thread as well. You could probably also use a straw to thread everything through.
Nice video 📹
This is the easiest egg fly I've seen so far. I'll be looking for McFly Foam.
Well done
I bought a plastic tool like this 20+ yrs ago from my fly shop, works great. Try a ball point pen body or a stiff straw.
pop straws work well with glow bug yarn
Great video. I use gutted ink pens for the tube tool. $3-$4 for a twelve pack cheaper than the clamp tools.
I was thinking same thing - kill off a ball point pen or similar instead of a perfectly good tool
And the can be used for other things, fx whip finnishing mudler heads in under the deer hair, as the thread glides of the taper nicely, and the other end can be used to compress the body and to push the hair away while varnishing the knot, if you make a hole in the side of it.
Genius!
Genius!!
50 pound braid works well to pull the thread through.
Now that's an awesome idea. I will definitely give it a try. Thanks Cappin!
Yes, use 20# mono to pull yarn otherwise you'll be replacing a threader each time. Wear finger cots!
nice technique
any chance of a hornberg video thanks
lol funny ending tightlinevideo
you can also use a pencil or pen to make this tool for tying a egg pattern
Cheap Bic pens work great!
And use 20lb or heavier line to pull through I've broke quite a few threading tools before changing techniques
FYI, re. the comment about a"fair amount of pressure" pulling the threader to get the yarn through the hole. Don't hold on to the end! As shown in the video hold near the opening of the hackle pliers, otherwise it's easy to break the threaded which I did. But, they're slippery so go slowly and be aware. Also, a 5/64 opening might be too small (or my opening is a bit smaller) as I ended up cracking the end of the hackle pliers as I pulled the yarn through. It still works with the crack though. Just note that getting the yarn through the hole is challenging!
Which season is best to use the egg? I live in Western NC for reference. Thanks for the reply.
Fly Life I like to use the clown egg early spring, and late fall. But I live in southwest Colorado, so it might be different.
Easter - make the kids happy..
Great video, Instead of breaking a tool, just use a drinking straw, makes it so simple
Yeah or use a small rubber tubs cut small
Straws are what I just loaded up....
In AK we call it the Jerry Garcia egg ...
Wowwwww my fear to tie egg patterns is gone!
I use a soda straw and it works just as well and I always use 50 gsp thread for eggs just some tips
+Andrew Kaiser Andrew, for an egg this small made of McFlyFoam, a drinking straw simply has way too large of a diameter. The idea is to compress the McFlyFoam as much as possible prior to tie in, hence the small 5/64" opening on the tube. Thread is a personal preference thing and although GSP is strong I have never been a fan of its handling qualities. To each his own.
The straws that I have found that work very well are smaller. Thanks for the reply and I believe you have the best fly tying videos on CZcams!
What thread is this it looks like floss
😍😍😉
Just use some .020 wire and some pliers to pull it through your straw or whatever you have. I've broken two bobbin threaders trying to do this.
How it’s made
What vice
do you use?
Hes to big to answer you
He uses dynakings and regals. I think this one is a regal revolution
What!? No quill wings on that thing? : )
+Matthew Grobert Never seen wings on a EGG?
Broke my bobbin threader first attempt lol
You tried to pull too much material through the tube, it happens. Also, when you are pulling on the threader, hold onto the wire rather than the little handle at the bottom, the connection there is very week. In the meantime, use the wire from the messed up threader and this time use a pair of pliers to grip the wire and pull the material through the tube.
Thanks Ill give her another go. I appreciate the quick reply as well👍🏻
Make sure to use a extra threader you don’t care about breaking
a bic pen will work too
Wear finger cots............they're cheap and will keep your sanity during the tie
can't be done with those common skein wools
Nope, needs something like McFly Foam.
Who else broke there bobbin threader doing this 🙁😔
Glad I’m not the only one.
Use kevlar fishing line. I also use it (found thrown away at the river >:/ ) for tieing flies, where it can be pulled really tight, and is as cheap as possible - and it's recycling.. Win win win
Why break hackle pliers, just use a pen
What terrible background music!!