Harnesses

[wakina]

Dug out the supplies and made up a few harnesses while the wind is blowing this morning. Here are a couple of pics. I attach the hooks as needed and can store these in a plastic box without tangles. These are made on straight hard wire like used on a inline spinner bait(shyster or rooster tail) and a stirrup clevis. I can change the whole harness faster than changing a blade on a quick change clevis and no more lost blades that happens with the quick change clevises. I am working on a way to use a removable (reusable) 2 hook snell and still be able to keep the first hook close to the beads and blade and eliminate the crimp or a snap for attachment. The tool in the first pic is a Twist-Tech wire former.

I use a regular leader about 60 inches long and when I want to change a harness all I have to do is to unsnap it from the leader and snap on another harness or even a spoon! Makes life on the boat much more enjoyable for me and I don't have all of those long leaders to wrap on pool noodles or harness storing devises as everything packs into a Plano storage box. It has relieved the stress involved worrying about the grand kids fooling with those pool noodles and getting hooked accidently. They do get bent but another plus is that they are almost impossible to wear out and continue catch fish so long as the blade spins freely so I just bend them back into a somewhat straight shape and send them back out for the next fish, they also allow you to save all of the components with the exception of the hard wire when you decide it is time to recondition the harness. I have only lost one, and that was due to the leader breaking and not a harness failure.