I’ve been casually looking for some.  I hit up some craft stores, but it’s never perfectly clear to me if the beads were glass or plastic. I wanted glass.  They are surprisingly difficult ti find locally.  Of course TW has  them, but I never remember them when I’m shopping. 
 

I found some while waiting for my dentist appointment. Of all places, Dick’s sporting goods.   They only had 6mm red glass ones and black 8mm beads. I grabbed a pack of the reds. 
 

im gonna put one inline with my tungsten weight for some added noise.  That’s the plan anyways. Using it in my Texas rigs. 
 

any other uses?

Carolina rig as well, BTW I found pack of 100 in dollar tree store. Look for them there.

Michael’s has glass beads as well as hobby lobby. They are clearly marked glass beads. They usually come in a plastic tube.

I got mine at Walmart.

Ive had very good luck using tempered glass beads. In the past i had the regular glass, break from weights hitting against them or,casting into rocky areas.

Can pair some glass beads with painted brass weights from Top Brass for light t-rigging. The ol brass and glass. 

21 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Can pair some glass beads with painted brass weights from Top Brass for light t-rigging. The ol brass and glass. 

Click bait...

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Every dad in my vicinity just laughed

I have been using glass beads a lot lately, not just for noise/flash either.  I was shown a trick by @Junger where in you use a stacked round bead and tri-bead in front of a toad to help it come through cover more easily and to protect the plastic/screw lock connection from abuse.  

 

I have been using this trick on most all of my plastics-in-cover and it really seems to help, especially with larger/heavier plastics.  

 

6 hours ago, SWVABass said:

Michael’s has glass beads as well as hobby lobby. They are clearly marked glass beads. They usually come in a plastic tube.

I went. Picked clean. I found some necklaces that I couldn’t clearly call out as glass. 

3 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Every dad in my vicinity just laughed

Stealing this for future use. 

https://www.michaels.com/search?q=glass beads

 

I like the Evil Eye beads!

 

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6 hours ago, fishwizzard said:

I have been using glass beads a lot lately, not just for noise/flash either.  I was shown a trick by @Junger where in you use a stacked round bead and tri-bead in front of a toad to help it come through cover more easily and to protect the plastic/screw lock connection from abuse.  

 

I have been using this trick on most all of my plastics-in-cover and it really seems to help, especially with larger/heavier plastics.  

 

LOL. Piscataway Charters Kool Aid. "The red tri bead goes before the orange round one, and the green oval one goes on top"...

When using heavy, tungsten weights on a Texas Rig (or something like that where the weight will slam the bead), I like to put a plastic bead in between the glass bead and the weight.  It helps to absorb some of the impact and prevents the glass from shattering.  With lead and brass weights, it's not really an issue for me.  But I've had tungsten weights shatter glass beads before.  

Isn't the sound of the glass hitting the weight the reason for using glass beads? Plastic is quieter?

A glass bead between a brass weight and a Carolina clacker ring is the loudest, IMO. I have a cash of red, green and clear glass beads in a couple of sizes.  The red ones I use as an attractor in front of my worm weight, the green and clear for sound.