Hawken Aero-Baits Soft Beads for steelhead underwent three years of testing, development, and perfecting. Hawken Outdoors Fishing handcrafts these steelhead soft beads to ensure the plastics and pigments maintain their firmness with high visibility UV vivid colors and minimal shade variations. The firmer plastic material results in a more durable soft steelhead bead with fewer slippage issues while fishing and its pre-formed hole makes threading onto your line an easy task. The Hawken soft beads come in 12mm, 14mm, and 16mm options, so there&';s sure to be a size and color choice that strikes your fancy - and more importantly, gets an eat!