Materials

[strutnstuff 0]

Been hearing about a cotton candy fly guys have been using here in Erie for Steelhead. Does anyone know what materials are used for this fly? Would like to tie some & try them out this fall for steelhead

[flytire 0]

I googled “cotton candy fly patterns” and found a bunch of different patterns 

[Val Schmaus 0]

Glo Bug yarn in size micro.

[utyer 0]

I have not fished up in Erie since 2009, but when I was up there, egg patterns or sucker spawn patterns were popular.  I have used sucker spawn, both in Eria, and on the Pere Marquette for Steelhead and Salmon.  I would think that pink and white egg yarns would be the material to start with.  

[vicrider 0]

If I was able to go back and fish the Lake Superior and Michigan streams again like I did for years I just go with the same thing we caught so many steel head and salmon on. An up eye Mustad #4 hook, a snell knot, lift up the behind the eye and tuck in and trim a couple of tufts of fuzzy yarn in clashing colors. I will guiltily admit that if things were slow we'd add a small rubber egg to the yarn fly but all those years I never used a real, honest, tied at the vice egg fly. Yarn tucked un the snell and trimmed to an egg shape. I would think cotton candy flies would simply be an egg pattern in a particular shade of yarn but I'm too long away from the shores of the great lakes to know the game today.