Wayne, I have sent you an email with a picture. From the picture that
you posted it looks like it might be a bead that was used for making
spinners. I had bought some beads like that many years ago from Herters.
You might be able to find something similar from a company that sells
lure making materials.


Wayne P wrote:
Hi All,

I am trying to find stuff to reproduce a fly for my father. The fly in the
upper photo has a red plastic body between the tube/hair and the beads. Does
anyone know where I can find something like that? That fly is something like
35 years old. My dad trolls with thede behind a dodger and down-rigger for
salmon and lake trout in Lake Michigan.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/967...ing00082wk.jpg

I ordered a tube tying adapter for my vise this weekend to help me with the
tube part with the hair. I can find everything else, just no luck so far on
the red body. I also imagine polar bear hair which is what these were
originally tied with is hard to get if not illegal right? I will likely use
deer hair or some synthetic.

wayne