Egg Patterns
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I melt beads to hooks, 6mm rootbeer is great for fishing behind sockeye, 8 mm salmon colored is best behind kings, and orange is great if you don’t want to catch any fish!
One of the perks and reasons bead fishing gained popularity is the fact that eggs are natural foods that are often taken deep by the fish.
In keeping with todays ethics and personal feelings towards catch and release fishing, it’s mighty tough to release a fish that is bleeding badly because it took an egg too deep. Well, it’s not tough to release them….it’s just tough for them to survive…..even if the line was cut and the hook left in them.
The bead method almost always insures a safe hook set in the lower corner of the jaw with the egg bead hanging safely out of the fishes mouth. So with beads, you’ll actually have much less fish mortality from taken the “egg” too deep.
Also, with the help of nail polish and the unlimited size and colors of beads, people can match just about any egg they want to match.
It’s America and everybody is entitled to their opinions…..but I think it makes a lot of sense.
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