Mr. Goldbead
My friend, Theo Bakelaar, from Holland is the one who introduced gold beads into the U.S. fly tying community. To attract attention to the idea of gold beads on the heads of nymphs and other sunken imitations, he got the idea to paint his his own head with gold. Trouble was, he used spray paint for cars. Not easy to get off. But, my, did he change the landscape of fly design. He just sent me a photo of one of his tying demos in which he appeared with a gold bead head. Great stuff.
Theo as Mr. Goldbead in the early 1990s.