Tony: Sounds like a good idea to Me. Thanks, Chuck
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From: Anthony Spezio
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:22 AM
Subject: [VFB] Re: Tiny Fly Question
Chuck,
This may rattle some but here is what I do with plastic beads
of the right size that have no recess for the bend clearance. I normally have
to do this for the plastic beads on the WRD. The plastic bead will not go
around the bend, If I force it it will split. If I use a bigger bead it will
block the eye. First I flatten the barb then straighten the bend a bit, slide
the bead around the larger radius then bend the hook back to it's original
shape. I make it a point not to over bend the hook. It only takes just of bit
of straightening to get the bead to go around the bend. This is an extra step
but it works for me.
Arkansas Tony
--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Chuck Alexander <chuckalexan...@hughes.net>
wrote:
From: Chuck Alexander <chuckalexan...@hughes.net>
Subject: [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish] Tiny Fly Question
To: "Virtual Fly Box" <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com>, "fly
fishing for panfish" <flyfishingandflytyingforpanf...@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 10:43 PM
OK all you tiny fly tying experts LOL.. I am stumped with a
problem.. I took the advice of tying a bigger fly, then working my way down in
hook sizes till I get to where I want. Problem is, I'm tying (or TRYING) my
Pink Panfish Producer, and I'm down to a size 20. Problem is, the gold bead
for the head. The ones I have are either too small to go around the sharp bend
in the hook, or they are too big, and they either fall right off the eye end of
the fly, or get stuck, with the eye buried halfway inside the bead. I have
tried the beads front wards, backwards and sideways. Is there a secret to
this??? Should I just make the "gold=bead head" out of gold tying thread, or
tiny tinsel?? Or do you just not tie flies this small with a bead head on
them?? Thanks for ANY help, Chuck
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