This may be old hat to many folks, but I was stumbling around the other day trying to get the tiny beads on the tiny hooks to tie a zebra midge pattern when I figured out that I could easily get the bead onto my bodkin first then align the hook point with the top of the bodkin and slide the bead back up and onto the hook.

You can even get several beads on the bodkin at once then run them onto the hooks one after the other and get the beading process out of the way and done.

It saved me a bunch of time and frustration once I figured this out.

Thought it might be of use to someone else.

Regards,
Terry