What it is Hareline’s Core C1510 Salmon Egg is a purpose-built egg hook with a straight eye, short shank, and a wide gap that leaves plenty of room for bulkier egg materials. It’s tied on heavy wire with a barbed, chemically sharpened point, so it’s built to stick and hold up when you’re bouncing eggs and heavier nymphs along the bottom. What to tie with it This hook is made for egg patterns, including hot glue eggs, Suckerspawn-style clusters, and Glo-Bug style yarn eggs where you cinch down a tight “puff” and trim it round. The short shank and wide gap also make it a clean choice for heavier nymphs, and it works well as a stinger hook behind an articulated streamer or as the hook on a tube fly where you want solid hookups without a long shank. Flies and the fish they're for Glo-Bugs tied on this style of egg hook are a go-to for trout and steelhead in rivers, especially when fish are keyed on drifting eggs. The same hook shape is right at home for salmon and trout egg-fishing during spawn periods, whether you’re dead-drifting yarn eggs or fishing glue-style eggs tight to the bottom. In big water where you’re swinging or stripping articulated streamers, using it as a stinger hook helps convert short strikes from trout and other river predators that nip at the tail. How it compares It’s in the same lane as the Tiemco TMC 105 Egg Fly Hook, with a similar short shank, wide gap, and heavy-wire build for egg patterns and other compact, bottom-oriented flies.
