Home Grown Tackle:Crawler Harnesse Part 2

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JJ Scully http://www.walleyecentral.com/forums...er_offline.gif
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http://www.walleyecentral.com/forums...cons/icon1.gif Home Grown Tackle: Crawler Harness
Its the time of year now that I start to tie up harnesses for next summer. I'm sure there are others who do this as well. Share your recipe or post some pictures of your latest creation.

I've been using 14 lb Berkley Vanish
3 #2 Daiichi hooks
Assorted beads
and Quick Change Clevice
Blades are usually #5 or #6 and I've been using lots from BIg Eye Custom Tackle

Hey Guy's here is the continuation of the HGT Crawler harness thread let's post up some new rig's!!

Here is one I tied this week
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[labsrus]

I have been tying crawler harness ofr a long time

Way too many blades and beads in my collection.

It is fun to organize and tie them

It is more fun to catch a fish with one.

The one item that I have been experiementing wiht is the use of artifical worms instead of night crawlers

I have used Gulp and Trigger with good results

The artificals help with the panfish bite. One problem is that with real nightcrawlers the rock bass and sunfish will bite the worm and get dragged along for a while.

[fishincrazy]

Originally Posted by labsrus

I have been tying crawler harness ofr a long time

Way too many blades and beads in my collection.

It is fun to organize and tie them

It is more fun to catch a fish with one.

The one item that I have been experiementing wiht is the use of artifical worms instead of night crawlers

I have used Gulp and Trigger with good results

The artificals help with the panfish bite. One problem is that with real nightcrawlers the rock bass and sunfish will bite the worm and get dragged along for a while.

Lab you ROCK!!!This is outside the box thinking!I love it!!

A few questions 1)do you have a color preference?
2)have you tried any other shape?
3)With the artifical can you run faster?
4)finally some plastics float do the worms you tried float
if so do you feel this makes a difference?

FC

[labsrus]

Answers

Color that seems to work best is natural earth worm, tried to use brighter colors and did not have much luck. But I did buy two new packs of bulp in bright colors like yellow this weekend.

I have had good luck with the trigger leech in black last year.

As far as floating more, did nto really notice that at all

I just like the fact that the plastic seems to last longer on the hook.

[adempsey]

A while back I was making harnesses and was trying to think about various color combinations. I am not entirely sold that the color of beads really makes that much difference, but I also don't see any harm in assuming that it might. So, I thought perhaps I should try to mimic some successful crank bait combinations and who better to start with than Reef Runner.

Anyway, just for fun I tied up a color mimic of every Reef Runner color I could find using the various blades/beads I had on hand - there are A LOT of different colors, lol. I've attached some randomly selected examples. Sorry for the poor quality photo's.

Anyway, just something to do for fun =)

[K Gonefishin]

Beads absolutely make a difference. You only need a couple patterns and I typically don't match blades to beads either.

[Indybleck]

Matching to the Reef Runner patterns is a good idea the harness' look great. I usually start tying in February.

[d-max06]

been reading all the posts on making your own harnesses so i went to the hobby store got thousands of beads many colors. Hooks i got gamakatsu#4 in red. Many Colorado spinners size 4 to 6 was as big as i could find excited to start making thanks for all the posts on this!

now looking for more blades for a good price just got some to get me started pricey little things

[JJ Scully]

Originally Posted by d-max06

now looking for more blades for a good price just got some to get me started pricey little things

Just wait once you get too far in you will buy an airbrush and start painting your own

[SILVER SHAD]

Here you go I get beads from here.
http://www.dbfishing.com