Well, Bro., I weight some with lead wire along the hook body under everything else if, like the other guys said I want to get 'em right on down. I do like the beadhead method, though, it seems to do very well. I think that bit of shine does some eyecatching. I don't know about natural or unnatural look under water. like was said, they don't take long to decide. They don't hang on long either before they decide it aint what they thought it was, so you gotta be on yer game to score. In slow or shallow runs, lead wraps will often be a little too much on anything bigger than about size 8 or 10 flies, and then I usually catch quite a bit of bottom .......................................ModocDan