Trout beeds

Any of you guys using trout beeds above the hook? Whats your take on them?

there's been a few guys on here known to use "trout" beads.........................

http://forums.fishusa.com/How_to_rig_trout_beads%3F%3F/m_133121/tm.htm

I fish trout beads once in a while. I just put the line through twice then just tie the hook on, just about 1/2" to 1" above the hook. It isn't hard at all. I have caught fish on them so I keep them in my pack.

Use them on the salmon river new york , work great.Use round toothpick 11/2" to 2' above your hook

Tie some glo bugs or sucker spawn the same color as the trout beads you'd like to use.  You'll feel better.

I think some guys here would use rosary beads if it got them 20 hookups a day.

I heard the blue ones are real good!

ORIGINAL: reesefisher33

Any of you guys using trout beeds above the hook? Whats your take on them?

 
My take, and alot will disagree.  It's been agrgued here before at great length, it's lining.

My take, and alot will disagree.  It's been agrgued here before at great length, it's lining.


I have to agree, if the fish is grabbing the bead in its mouth and you react to the take and set the hook. Arent you pulling the trailing line with the hook into or most likely onto the outside of the fishes mouth ?

linning a fish involes running the line through the fishes mouth, allowing the water flow to pull the line downstream until the hook,fly is stuck into mouth (usually the outside)resultlng in a hook up. Now with the attached trout bead, the fish has a target to home in on. It seems this technique just makes linning fish easier. The fish is reacting to the bead, which is not the case in "traditional" linning, where an angler just trys to float the line into the mouth, but the end result is the same, a foul hooked fish.
If I'm wrong, please say so, but that's my take.
I'm not saying I never lined a fish before, but it wasn't intentional, if the hook was anywhere on the outside of the mouth or head I and the law would consider it foul hooked. You see it all the time on tv shows, guys using beads for Bows in Alaska, it just seems like linning to me.

Does a Moe egg catch that many less fish because the hook is visable ? Not really, and 99% of your catches will be hooked IN the mouth.
As always just me $.02

ORIGINAL: kingnuke32

But the Fly fishing purists will always argue anything that is different.

Not arguing.  Just giving my opinion which is what the original poster asked.

I'm no purist, beleive me. I spin, fly ,CP, live bait etc... I just like to catch fish, but legally.
 
King Boom, you stated in the corner of the mouth, which corner, inside or out ? if the line is being pulled through the mouth, I find it hard to imagine that it would hook inside the mouth. Just my thinking , not trying to start a war. Just trying to comprehend the physics of it, thats all.

 


 
Hooked in Mouth.
 

sounds like the moffit system, with beads instead of flies, which was deemed illegal by the PAFC.

I usually fish the bead about 2" over the hook sometimes closer and never any shot within a foot. I have no issue snagging feesh nor do I care what anyone thinks as they waterslap beside me as I pull feesh after feesh on the bank. To each there own and as long as it is legal which it all is then its all good in my book.