Dave LaCourse wrote:

A guide dreamed up the bead method. You slip a colored glass bead
onto the end of your leader (represents the egg/spawn and can be
colored with finger nail polish to match whatever salmon pattern you
are targeting).

Forget about the fingernail polish. Visit http://www.troutbeads.com/.

You then tie a short piece of tippet to you leader
(double surgeon's knot is fine), slide the bead down to the knot and
hold it there by placing a tooth pick in the bead (and breaking off
the tooth pick's end). You then tie a hook onto the other end (four
to five inches) of the tippet.

The extra tippet and knot aren't necessary. The toothpick works just
fine by itself. Stick it in the hole, clip it off with your nippers (you
need sharp nippers) and jam the remainder down into the bead with your
forceps. It helps to treat the toothpicks ahead of time with rubber cement.

BTW, Dave, ADFG Bristol Bay Alaska regulations require the bead to be
either free-floating or no more than two inches from the hook. If you
were fishing in Bristol Bay with a bead four or five inches from the
hook you were breaking the law.

You see the take when the rainbow hits the bead, set the hook which
pulls the bead out of the fish's mouth and brings the hook into the
mouth. Voila! Big rainbow on an egg pattern with the hook in its
upper jaw.

Its an extremely effective technique, not only for rainbows, but also
for char and grayling. Some people call it snagging.

I don't think it's much different from fishing two or more nymphs.
Often, the fish will take the top nymph, you'll miss the hook set, and
you'll "snag" the fish, often on the outside of the mouth, with the
bottom nymph.

I usually tie on a glow bug instead of a bare hook.

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