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Title: What are the beads for?
Post by: bmyrkle on Jan 29, 2016, 08:28 AM

When I buy something like a Diamond Jig from Custom Jigs and Spins, they often have a bead or two on the hook shank.

What are these for? Tying something additional on like a fly fisherman might? To rattle or make noise? To help position your live bait on the hook?

I don't know.

Title: Re: What are the beads for?
Post by: maddogg on Jan 29, 2016, 09:24 AM

The bead is for the fisherman.
It worked it hooked you.

Title: Re: What are the beads for?
Post by: bassandbucks1 on Feb 02, 2016, 03:20 PM

I'm assuming the bead is just to add some extra color, or to help hold that little piece of plastic tubing that's also on the hook. No idea what the little plastic tube is for though?

Title: Re: What are the beads for?
Post by: slipperybob on Feb 18, 2016, 10:50 PM

The bead helps prevent premature paint chipping from wear and tear.

Title: Re: What are the beads for?
Post by: panfishman13 on Feb 19, 2016, 02:59 PM

i'm pretty sure it's to help hold plastics in place, particularly the nuclear ant bodies.

Title: Re: What are the beads for?
Post by: Uncle Al on Mar 02, 2016, 06:42 AM

If you read articles about building lures, the bead is used as an attractor.

Title: Re: What are the beads for?
Post by: matzilla on Mar 14, 2016, 08:26 PM

It covers the shank of the hook...so the bait appears to be an extension of the jig head.