Quote Originally Posted by Tig View Post
All kinds of craft stores have plastic "bead chain". I couldn't find any in black one time so I bought white and painted enough for about 100 flies in just a few minutes.
I have done this too. You need to be careful about the type of beadchain you buy though. I bought some once that had beads molded around a cord. The bond of the plastic bead to the cord was not very strong and I wound up with a lot of one eyed and blind flies after fishing them for a short time. I've recently been welding beads onto heavy mono for eyes and they seem much more durable.

Ted