Looking for another market for your beaded productions? How about fishermen…or more accurately, fish?
Mmmm, beads!
It turns out that beads make good bait for certain fish. Trout think orange-colored Miracle beads are salmon eggs, and will try to eat them. Steelhead, less easily fooled, just think the beads are inferior to their own eggs and try to move them away–which gets them caught on the hook.
Local anglers have told us that the shine of the bead catches the fish’s eye very successfully. They put one bead on the line with a hook below it and a bobber on the top of the line. Both the 8mm and the 4mm sizes have been used.
This makes us curious, what other beads can you use in lures, artificial flies, etc.? What about the other orange beads, like opaque glass ones? Share your experiences and ideas in a comment below!