Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:20:55 -0600, rw
wrote:


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/.


Actually the fingernail polish is still used. You start out with a
solid colored bead and either lighten or darken it depending upon the
eggs in the stream you are fishing. None of the beads I have fished
with were a solid color, but have their color altered in some way with
finger nail polish. Some of the guides were very picky about how the
color should be altered.

troutbeads.com has every combination of color and size one could
possibly want. Cheap, too. I suspect those guides were pulling the leg
of a sport.

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.


We weren't breaking the law. The hook was very close to the bead,
probably less than two inches.

Probably?

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