Pictures of different worm harnesses

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My spoon harnesses I use beads between the 2 hooks because. Over the years, I have tried many combinations, beads infront of the spoon, behind the spoon, infront of the hooks, small spinner blades in front, behind the spoon etc. Nothing worked any where near as well as the beads between the hooks. Makes a huge difference. A friend told me about this a few years ago. Also getting the front hook as close as possible to the spoon. I run them suspended in the water column. I use regular harnesses for running at/on the bottom. The regular harnesses work better there. But the spoons out produce the regular harnesses big time when run in the water column. About even catch rate when running 1.5 mph+
As far as speeds, they work best from .6mph on up. When running 2+mph I just don't use a crawler, keep as a regular spoon.
You can run double willows or single, same with Colorado blades. The dbl Colorado just pull a lot more than dbl willow. If I want to pull meat at higher speeds, 2+mph, I use dbl willow, dbl Colorado will spin out/twist line if the tension on the blades changes/ boat speed/waves etc.


I have tried running short harnesses with the inline weight close to the harness. Results over 1 season were not as good as regular length harnesses so I don't run these any longer.


As far as a 3rd hook, I rarely will add a stinger hook to have a 3 hook harness. PIA and waste of time for me. I go thru the side of the head of the crawler with the first hook. Going thru the top of the head again, PIA and no improvement in catch rates in my experience.