Korda Rubber Bead 5mm

Korda Rubber Bead 5mm

We originally developed these rubber beads for use with our Flying Back Leads. The hole in these beads is tapered, so it is larger at one end of the bead than at the opposite end. If you wind it up so that the larger hole points towards the rod, the narrower hole can slip over the knot connecting the leader and the main line and find a hold there.
In this way, a rubber bead prevents the flying back lead from slipping over the leader connection knot. This would prevent the flying back lead from flying backwards on the main line during the flight. But that is precisely the purpose of a flying back lead.

The Rubber Beads are also suitable for the Safe Zone Leader. For example, if you use these safe zone leaders in chod style. Then two Rubber Beads fix the short chod rig on one of the two slightly thicker tungsten sections and hold it in position.

The rubber beads are also used with the Shokka rig. There they provide the "back stop" effect. To do this, the rubber beads are pushed onto one of the two tungsten sections of the leader. When the fish pulls the leader through the lead after biting, the lead eventually hits the rubber bead and thus creates the desired self-hooking effect.