I wasn’t intending to go the easy route, after all, even going in with the knowledge that swinging flies with the spey rod might not be my best shot at connecting with a fish, I was adamant about sticking to my guns. After all, who drives halfway across the country to fish egg patterns under a bobber? No offense
intended if that’s the way
you prefer to fish, but I
didn’t want to have to
say that my first steelhead
came on a clown egg.