Actually there is a big difference between egg patterns and a real egg. Egg patterns are inmataions (just like nymphs and some streamers), a real egg is just that, a real egg. I've caught trout on egg paterns before, not in Alaska. There is just more saticfastion catching a steelhead on a fly.

Either way, I think Parker was just joking (I hope) and my post was more of a sarcastic post.
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They say that the man that gets a Ph.D. is the smart one. But I think that the man that learns how to get paid to fish is the smarter one.