On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:16:10 -0600, rw
wrote:

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.

Don't believe so. The beads we used were monochromatic; each bead
had swirls of different shades of pink ranging from almost white to
dark pink. They took a single colored bead and painted swirls in it
with nail polish. They would take a light pink egg and hit it with
light and dark pink swirls, or a dark pink egg and hit it with light
pink swirls, including near white. We never fished with eggs that
were "right out of the box." Each one I used was painted. There was
a painting station in the guides room with a very large collection of
single colored beads ranging in color from pure white to scarlet, and
a wide array of nail polish bottles.

Yeah, "probably," because I can't remember the "exact" number. We
weren't breaking the law, Steve. Guides and their lodges/outfitters
wouldn't take the chance of getting sited for something so easily
controlled, and there would be no reason to make the bead/hook
junction more than two inches. Besides, more than two inches would
cut back on the amount of hook-ups.