Wapsi Cyclops Beads Fl. Pink – Wapsi’s Cyclops Brass beads are excellent for hot headed flies. Pink beads have become very popular for the heads of sowbug patterns on tailwater rivers. The hot pink heads are also effective substituted for a gold bead on your favorite nymph patterns. During periods of colder water temperatures, brightly colored beads can provoke strikes when other flies won’t. Wapsi Cyclops beads are countersunk making them easy to get over a hook.