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Color
Several years ago Chris W a fellow FAOL put me onto this type of bead. I have been using them quite a bit with good success. Most of that success has come from gills, crappie & perch. I have about decided that the color of the bead matters more to the angler than the fish. I think the sea kittens are attacked by the shine not the shade.
In addition to using them as beaded wooleys I use them as bead headed dragon fly nymphs. One of my favorite pattens is a snap to tie and has counted for a lot of gills.
Take a #10 hook (I use Mustad 3366) and tie a body of punch yarn & the bead. I build up the rear of the body with one color of yarn, then the bead ,and then another color of yarn for the head. I try to make the rear part of the body slighly larger than the head.
I bought most of my beads from Michael's craft store.
Hope this helps.
Tim
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Eric, I think this fly cries out for those beads....
http://www.bobwards.com/products2.cf...-fishing-flies
There's a thread here on FAOL ..just search Batman Nymph....
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I bought a big bag of multi-colored beads like those and use them as bead heads on wooly buggers by matching the bead color to the bugger color.