Hey guys, I need to know what brand of artificial eggs I should buy and where to get them.

I use real eggs, but eventually one runs out, and I dont always like dealing with them. Let me know. Thanks guys!

Also i prefer to run my eggs under a float so they need to be weighted.

Jensen Eggs. You find them on Ebay every now and then, or locate a 'friend' that will let you into their 20 year old stash.

Egg bumpers if you cand find them. They would likely fall into the 20 year old stash category

Are any of them weighted? If you're dead set on float fishing fake eggs I'd get ez eggs and use some split shot..But that's just me.

I tie my eggs in netting which helps save egg consumption. Just a thought..

EZ Egg & split shot like said above.Good luck

SZ

Fake cluster eggs just don't do a thing for me. Tell me, anyone......when would a fish EVER see a cluster of eggs in a natural state? I'm not saying bait doesn't work....but it is bait.....I can see where a fish might see one or possibly two single eggs floating along.....but a cluster?

To me, imitating an unnatural thing is appealing solely to the fish's instinct to strike at something......which means anything would do the trick.

just my 2

forget the fake eggs, use a glass bead on the same tie-up as the eggs.

Trout beads are great for singles, Jensen's if you can find them also. Mad River makes some also, but they tend to smell like plastic.
EZ eggs seem to be the best cluster style.

I couldn't disagree more.... It goes much further than presentation and instinct of the fish to strike....

Do you like eating a rubber ribeye steak?

Keith

About as often as they would see a tadpolly, 50-50 spoon, corkie and yarn, 6-inch pink worm, purple intruder, ball of yarn, or marabou jig I suppose.

So the question is what do steelhead bite and why? We'll never know for certain or entirely, but after a while the patterns and habits are easy to recognize. Color, contrast, movement, size, scent are all important things to consider and to pay attention to as you go.

I am certain a steelhead has never seen a real fly that looks like a thingamabobber but I have seen a steelhead eat one. Why? Not sure. I think the not knowing is part of what makes chasing them fun.

To stay on topic, I have caught a handful of fish using those EZ eggs under bobbers and as part of drift rigs. Seems to work just fine. I do wish they made them scent free for selective zones though.

I have caught Steelhead on Marsh mellows, ear plugs(before they were called a lure), buttons from the wife's sewing kit, green rubber tubing, knitting yarn, rainier beer caps and even a piece of hot-dog years ago on the Hump.
My grandfather never threw a thing in the river but a red and chartruese piece of yarn and a very small cluster of eggs and he caught the crap out of them!
Lures, fake eggs and whatever work for whoever feels confident with them, but overall, it just does not matter.
A real good fisherman will go out and catch fish and what he uses is not as important as where and how he reads water.

I'm still looking to find the disagreement.

You can use stuff that imitates something natural (crawdads, shrimp, fish) or something that triggers a strike reflex (which may or may not cross into the "natural" territory). Cluster eggs are bait that may cross into the strike reflex territory. Fake single eggs cross into both territories. Fake cluster eggs, however, are strike reflex only (unless scented), so knowing that, I would use something that increases my chances.

Ford Chevvy

Fish what you have confidence in and present it properly.

Gooey Bobs have been the lure of choice for many years on many BC streams. Why do they work? Because they are presented well and because, for reasons we may never fully understand, steelhead pick them up.

As Coley pointed out its hard to find something a steelhead wont bite - on ossassion. Just because they have never seen such a thing before seems to have no effect whatsoever.


I'm betting the first guy to fish a Corkie was laughed at. Hell, no steelhead has ever seen such a thing. My first steelhead bit a clown Corkie. Pretty sure there was no clown Corkie hatch that day.

I have had good luck fishing a mad river egg along with a yarn ball.

EZ Eggs

People give the fish too much credit. We use our hands for everything. Even while speaking.

Fish dont have hands. They use their mouth, for everything...

Fish are simpletons, remedial at best, and lacking the evolution of hands to properly investigate the lures around them.

+1

typo fixed.

Keep that thought. I don't like babysitting.