Whats your favorite type of bead for your bugger/leech patterns (brass, tungsten, glass, plastic, etc)?
All the buggers I've tied have 4-4.5mm tungsten beads for no other reason than thats the only type of beads I have (usually for euro nymphs).
But honestly, the tungsten is pretty clunky to cast, and feels unnecessarily heavy for what I want. IE, even with a floating line, it sinks so fast that I end up dragging bottom when I'm fishing the shallows. I don't really want to go beadless, because I almost only fishing buggers while backpacking so I only want to bring one spool/line (a floating) so I can still fish dries.
What say you? Brass probably better?
All the buggers I've tied have 4-4.5mm tungsten beads for no other reason than thats the only type of beads I have (usually for euro nymphs).
But honestly, the tungsten is pretty clunky to cast, and feels unnecessarily heavy for what I want. IE, even with a floating line, it sinks so fast that I end up dragging bottom when I'm fishing the shallows. I don't really want to go beadless, because I almost only fishing buggers while backpacking so I only want to bring one spool/line (a floating) so I can still fish dries.
What say you? Brass probably better?