Called in my local tackle shop the otherday and noticed the plastic/silicone whatever type egg imitations.
Although they look the part i think i would be reluctant to use them as they may have a detrimental effect on the fish if they come off.
These little blighters may get stuck somewere in the fishes gut and cause a blockage not only in trout but some coarse fish as well/
God knows what the makers of these were thinking but i for one will not be using them.
They do look like the gen thing and thats probably what all the fish will think which makes them an accident waiting to happen tut tut.
These will no doubt catch a lot of fish but i bet its not long before they are banned on most fisheries were catch and release is the norm.
Have you used them and what are your thoiughts on this matter

There are lots of artifical baits, even more in coarse fishing, and I also have such concerns. I think it depends on how you use them - they basically need to be used in a secure way that means there is very little chance of them becoming detached from the hook, but this is probably harder with soft silicon artificials like those eggs?

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It doesn't make it right to lose synthetic baits for fish to ingest, but fish can pass fairly large and complex items through their system, as can be sen from the picture below

When I landed a 2Lb plus rainbow at the Frandy Reservoir last year, a booby was dangling from the anal vent of the fish, attached to 4 feet of leader, with 3 feet of the leader hanging from its mouth. The booby had amazingly passed through the trout's digestive system and the hook was as black as the ace of spades. The booby complete with leader was gently pulled through the fish and it was released unharmed, hopefully to fight another day

I never imagined you as an amateur proctologist Bill........

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It certainly looks like an interesting profession

Well done that man, the fish deserved a second chance,

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I have to disagree...any fish taking THAT deserves to be chapped....

The silicon eggs do look the part I'll agree, and I bought some. However, after trying to find a suitable way to secure them to the hook so as to not be a risk to fish I've given up. They are simply too soft and tear off the shank eventually, in spite of a thread base, superglue and any other means of securing them that I can think of. Not great.

Hi' FO2007, As I mentioned on here a couple of months back, I once found a three-inch ash twig in a 2lb rainbow's gut, and I have released live fish with the odd strand of ranunculus protruding from the vent. Have also seen the odd fish with nylon hanging out of the exhaust pipe; and my late old pal once caught a jack pike in a loch near Lochmaben that was retained for taxidermy by his son, and inside that fish was a dirty big hadful of line and several hooks. Someone must have been pike fishing with trotting gear, judging by Ken's description of the junk in that unfortunate fish. TC