How To Tie The Nuke Egg

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Join Karl as he ties the Nuke Egg, an essential egg pattern for early season fishing. This pattern is particularly effective during spawning, utilizing McFlyFoam for ease of tying and Hareline Egg Veil for a realistic translucent appearance in water. The recommended hook sizes range from 8 to 14, making it versatile for different fishing conditions. If you find this video helpful or have any tips on tying the Nuke Egg, be sure to leave a comment below and don't forget to subscribe for more fly fishing content!

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Hook: Daiichi 1150 (size 8)

Thread: Danville 6/0 (White)

Body: McFlyFoam Fly Tying Yarn (Orange)

Veil: Hareline Milky White Egg Veil

Video Transcript

Hello, I'm Karl at Trident Fly Fishing and today we're going to tie the Nuke Egg. This egg pattern is a must-have for early season when the fish are spawning. McFlyFoam makes it extremely easy to tie and the Hareline Egg Veil makes for a realistic looking translucent appearance when it's wet. I recommend you tie this fly in sizes 8 through 14.

Here's the fly in the vise, we'll get the tie started. The hook we're going to use today is a Daiichi 1150. It's a heavy wide-gap hook and just the ticket for big fish like steelhead. Our thread today is Danville's Flymaster 6/0 in white. We'll get our thread started about an eye length behind the hook eye, right back about halfway, so we've got a base to tie our materials in.

We're going to tie in our first material and that's McFlyFoam in orange. This comes in multiple colors. We're going to pull one strip off - it's pretty easy to pull this material out. We're going to tie this in on top of the hook shank and let it extend out past the hook eye just a bit, and force it down on the hook with our fingers to help it wrap around. Take a couple of loose wraps and then tighten up and look and see where we are. That looks like it's surrounding the hook pretty good, and we can jump our thread forward. Then all you do is pick the material up, hold a little tension on it, cut it even, and manipulate this material around with your fingers and you get a nice orange egg sac.

Now that we've got our egg situated on the hook, we're going to put the veil on next. That's Hareline Egg Veil in the color Milky White. We'll pull out some of these filaments, like so, and get just a tad more - I think that will probably work. We have some Loon low-tack wax, S-wax. I think it's pretty sticky myself, but we're going to put just a little bit of this on our thread to help this veil stick, and then we're going to wrap the veil around the hook.

Bring this up - the hardest part of tying this is wrapping this material without having it get caught up in the hook point. It should form a nice veil over the egg. Yep, that looks good. Take out our whip finish tool, four or five turn whip finish. Cut our thread. Pull this material back up behind the hook and cut it off. We've got a few stray pieces that wrapped around the hook point - it's easy enough to clean those up. Just a dab of head cement. This is Hareline's Hard as Hull. There, and our fly is finished.

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