Favorite Bead Colors

I just learned about using beads late last year and wanted to stock up on some colors.  But with so many out there I have no idea what colors work in the Erie tribs and I am hoping to make a trip to NY this fall. 
 
Any help in color selection and what works is appreciated.
 
Tight Lines and Fish On...

I don't think bead color is nearly as important as bead presentation. Get beads that are close to the color of salmon eggs and you'll do just fine as long as your presentation to the fish is correct.
 

flyfishingbuddies.com
They carry 3 differents lines in many colors. MoeRoe r the best, IMO
Just sayin, just lovin 'em

Seams like a lot of work just to foul hook a fish

 
ya mahn, but It's a lAbor of lOve
 
duud, sunny day  = small  pearl bead ...and i mean "pearl"...not white
 
Put the bead at the hook eye too......don't be a snAggAr
 
 
..l.T.A.

Beads dont work on erie tribs, try ohio or ny

 
 

PONDBEARSHWILLY

How do you attach the beads to the shank if I where to tie some up myself? Thread? Glue? Head cement?

 
I tried thread ..it looked like chit, but produced bites...problem was, it didn't produce many solid  "hook-ups" due to the bead shrinking the size  hook gap width ...(size 16 scud hook)
So I started pegging them on the line at top of  hook eye and hook-up rate went way up.
 
if i pinned it much higher, I started feeling like a snAggAr
and one should only use  evolved snAgging techniques to prevent  lose of pride.
you know, when you're the only guy in the hole or run  that hasn't hooked a fish.
 
as long as the hook is anywhere forward of the pec fin,  you can call it a fair fish and keep out of the water for tens minutes while pics are taken.
  revive  down stream of your creek neighbors, so no one sees it float away side ways
 
If drug in by the tail, etiquette requires you release immediately and  no picsare allowed
unless of course,  no one is in sight  then you can take pics  to show your friends at home and on the interwebz
 
 
..l.T.A.
 

I prefer Blue Power Bea... oh, nevermind.

Plz kill all the stillheads they were annoying walleye fishing this year, thanks.
 

william h

Mr.Slickfish


To stay on topic...and answer duuds ?....I've wittnessed PAPinner slay fish on any color bead he chose...I agree that presentation is way more important than color.

would'nt that fact suggest he was actually snagging the fish?

NOPE ...I was there that day as well and every fish was hooked from the inside out on the beads. And on 4-5 different colors. It aint snaggin if you do it properly.

william h


would'nt that fact suggest he was actually snagging the fish?
I've never tryed the beads but have seen the rig used.

Call me what you want it doesn't bother me, the method works hands down and I peg my bead no more then 1" from the hook. Just dont get mad a me because "you can't catch them from the couch"

kingnuke32

Plz kill all the stillheads they were annoying walleye fishing this year, thanks.

Oh we will!!

and then there's this from a couple years back...

http://forums.fishusa.com...=353056&high=Foul+hook

You see that in writing anywhere flytier? That must make hair rigs for carp illegal as well then huh? I thought as long as the hook was inside the mouth it was a o k.

Personally, I just use the bead as an indicator to drift the bare hook in the fishes mouth then I nonchalantly lift up the rod tip so nobody knows what I am doing, that's how I have been getting by for years..
 
Works great, and people think you are a way better fisherman than you really are.
 

CroatianSensation

flytierwon

It does not say beads are illegal, it is how you rig them. I think the commission should address the issue and be more specific in the written regulations, but in the mean time it is a gray area to touch on. They do see pegging as a snagging device by it being pegged above the hook. They do work great tho, I've had a lot of experience using them and I never once Hooked a fish on the outside of the mouth.

Wrong!  Theres nothing in writing that indicates it is illegal how to "rig".....The legal/illegal issue lies within where a fish is hooked and whether or not it is foul hooked; and also caught in the act of intentionally snagging fish by ripping your hook through the water.  Otherwise, show me what you speak of in writing.  I see more fly guys snaggin' fish with their double and triple dropper rigs....intentionally too, with their "end of the drift rip/lift!" 

I caught over half of the steelhead I caught last year on beads....just a few were foul hooked and they were hooked near the tail or back accidentaly....the ones which went for the bead, were all hooked legally in the corner of the mouth! 

Sir, since you use this rig often, could you please post a picture of it? I googled it and got so many different looking rigs that I am just as clueless now as I was before I started. I don't want to snag fish, but if this rig works like so many people say it does, I wouldn't mind trying it. Do you use a swivel at all?