RIO Ball & Skein Fly

RIO's Ball & Skein Fly is a great steelhead and salmon egg fly with a tungsten bead to get down to egg chasing fish faster.

3.8mm tungsten bead.

Many migrating salmon meet their end by bears.  The eggs of a hen that don't get eaten by the bear drift downstream in small clumps.  For years, anglers have represented this clump with roe sacks, Corkies/yarn, or Oakie Drifters, etc.  Now fly anglers have an option.  This fly represents either a single egg with loose skein around it, or a small cluster of eggs.  Tied on the trusted "Glo Bug" hook from Gamakatsu.  The fly comes with either a 3.8mm or 4.6mm off-set tungsten bead so you can adapt to different water flows.  This fly can be fished under an indicator like any egg pattern, but now Euro anglers can easily fish it too.  Also, a 3.8mm tungsten bead weighs roughly the same as a lead "BB" shot and the 4.6mm tungsten bead is about the same as the 3/0 lead shot.  These are the two most used lead shot when fishing beads.  The colors represented here cover the range that eggs can take on.  From the freshest, most vibrant to the opaque "dead" look.  This fly looks okay dry, but absolutely amazing wet.