The Bead Head Minnow is a simple, quick and effective streamer.  It only has one material (two colors), a hook and a bead.  That's it.  No tail, no body material, in fact, the hook shank is bare. Yet it catches a lot of fish for me. 

I've seen (and fished) variations of this fly tied with Krystal Flash or Flashabou for the wing - nothing works as well as the recommended wing material called Wing-n-Flash.  The material used to be called Lite-Brite but is now marketed under the name Wing-n-Flash and is supplied by Wapsi.

 

 

 

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This video gives you an idea of how the videos on www.rotaryflytying.com play. The ROTARY FLY TYING website is a pay to view website with lots of fly patterns recorded in the above video format. 

They play on a little larger screen when viewing on the web and are also available in download format so that you can view them without being online.  If you download the videos you can also play them in a larger format. Oh, and most of the patterns on ROTARY FLY TYING are a bit more complicated than the Bead Head Minnow and make more use of the rotary vise features.

If you get a chance check out ROTARY FLY TYING website.  There is a sample video on the bottom left of the home page that you can play to see the actual format the videos play in.  However, to see any other videos you would have to register and then pay the $25.00 subscription fee.  You can however see the library of videos without being registered.  You'll see there are quite a few videos up there an more being added all the time. 

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