Egg flies imitate fish roe. Like all files, different types of egg flies have different names. Some anglers don’t like them because they contend they are too much like using bait. We disagree because egg flies imitate natural food that most all fish eat, including steelhead. In the Fall, steelhead eat the eggs of salmon that are spawning upstream of them. Both species spawn in the same rivers. The steelhead wait just below the spawning salmon ready and willing to eat any eggs that happen to drift downstream their way. The fishing method is fairly simple. Just find some spawning salmon and fish downstream from them keeping your egg fly on the bottom. This is best done with a free line but a strike indicator can be used. In most cases you will need to add weight above the fly to help keep it on the bottom. Often you can spot a pair of spawning salmon and that allows you to know exactly where you should fish. Present the egg fly on the swing and keep in bouncing along the bottom. We have egg flies is various colors that permit the steelhead to easily see them under various sky and water color conditions as well as imitate the natural eggs. The best choices are usually red- orange, peach, pink and chartreuse. Some of the flies have material added to the egg to imitate sperm.