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I really enjoy these tungsten beads by Firehole Outdoors. They are well-crafted and look GREAT on woolly buggers, nymphs, scuds, etc. A wide assortment of colors and sizes will ensure that they have just the bead for your need. Assorted colors allow for some fun, off-the-wall patterns. Minus 1 Star b/c they're significantly more expensive than Wapsi, Hareline, etc for similar items. Nonetheless, worth the purchase for colors you can't find elsewhere.
If you are tying for Instagram then these are perfect, they look great. Now if you tie flies for fishing they are only a 3 star. The colors are great, they are great to tie with, they are heavy and get the fly down, however after about 10 minutes of nymphing about half of the color was gone. It chipped off extremely easy. I'm prepared for my materials to wear, but you are paying a lot of money for a beat that will be metallic colored after a short while.
Bought several colors and sizes of these to try. They add a subtlety to nymphs and allow for a closer match to a natural. Highly effective so far. Sometimes a matte color bead matching the rest of the fly is warranted rather than a silver , gold or black bead. Ordering more
I ordered the 2.5mm almond joy, autumn and black matte stones and tied up some Copper Johns and GRHE nymphs. Man, they look terrific and I cannot wait to fish them come Spring. The colors of the autumn especially make the GRHE's just pop! I am going to order more and tie up more nymphs using the olive and true blood colored stones!
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