"jackk" wrote in message
...
To each his own. All I know is that I have found amber to be the best
color
for dubbing in our local lakes.
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Re your silver ribbon... there is a commercially availble WB fly with a
silver bead for the body. I've never used it since I cannot find the
silver
beads
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Hi jackk,
Reference the silver beads. I think I entered a soft hackle swap here or on
ROFF where I did a pattern called a scintillator, or something like that. .
.. was an emerger caddis pattern. I got the beads from a craft store.
The pain was getting a hook with a small enough size eye so I could put the
bead over the front of the hook, as it was not possible to get it over the
bend of the hook. (long shape of bead) I believe it was a plastic kind of
bead. I think Larry Medina, who used to hang around here a bit, did the
swap.
Heck . . .I just looked up my paper copy. It was September 2001.
Web site used to be:
http://home.planet.nl/~westb001/SHSwap.html
for the pics.

I've found it doesn't quite matter how I get the bead on a hook, but more
importantly, to get it anchored in where I want it on the hook, for the
pattern I am tying. It seems I've tied patterns with maybe some type of
bead anywhere along the hook shank. Heh . . .heh . . .and I don't even
use bead patterns that much . . .but I certainly have them along.
HTH a bit,
DaveMohnsen
Denver