I to have been pulling rigs out of trees, the bottom as well as fish that are not debarbed. Thats some bad river karma to whom ever is not debarbing their hooks.

Beads are lame.

Xnjb707X wrote:

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shon42073 wrote:

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Beads are lame.

I thought bobber fishing was lame?

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For sure on that right there... beads and tailing hooks, haha might as well go back to bait dunking if you got to use those. Beading, thats dirty fly fishing. Ick..

- Nic

 

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The "are beads ethical" thread is an on going thread. Lets not start another one. I personally have had issues in the past with glo bugs and glue eggs with fish swallowing them, which inturn can kill the fish. So I turned to beads, since then I have never had a fish swallow a bead. Also with beads there are 1000s of colors, and you can change those colors slightly with fingernail polish. Lame or not, I know that the fish will not be harmed or killed when I am fishing beads.

There is a difference between beading and fishing a bead. Beading is where you have a very small bead, 3mm and under, that is right at the hook, not pegged, this hook is attached to a leader that is usually 8ft-18ft long, which is inturn attached to a swivel that has some sort of weight attatched to it. That weight can be a egg, pencil, cannon ball or anyother sort of weight you like. This set up is then thrown out into the current, and as it drifts that long leader will line the fish since the fishes mouths open and close to get O2 through there gills, this is called lining fish. Now because it has a bead its considered legal by DFG, if there wasnt a bead then it would be illegal and considered snagging.

Fly fishing with a bead is when you take a bead and peg the bead with a peg it or a toothpick roughly an inch above the hook. When a fish takes the bead, you set the hook, and you hook the fish on the outside of its mouth. If you were using a glo bug or glue egg, the possibility of that fish swallowing the hook greatly increases, especially if you put the glo bug or glue egg as your last fly.

I'm just not a fan of pegging a bead and tailing the hook 6" from the bead. It just seems that if a fish goes to investigate the bead and the hook goes right into the fishes mouth without even taking the bead. I've seen fish chase streamers nose to nose with the fly but not even take it, but if I had a tailing hook it would have hooked him. Just sayin, that's all.. To each his own.


- Nic

Like Alastair said max 1" above the hook is where the bead is pegged, I dont know who pegs their bead 6"s above their hook, but that is rediculaus. 1" is plenty. With a 6" gap you will snag a fish everytime. 1" gap between hook and bead will never snag a fish. Its either inside the mouth or on the lips.