Pictures of different worm harnesses

[endangeredspecies]

Looking for pictures of different worm harnesses and what each is used for.

[endangeredspecies]

Can someone direct me to an older thread maybe with pictures? I have some lindy harnesses.

[ebijack]

The options on building your own are endless. You did not ask for any specific type/style. But you can start here. Most are built for what the person prefers to do, pull slow, pull fast, use leaders with homebuilt short harnesses, casting harnesses.
https://www.google.com/search?q=craw...HTcDDVoQsAQIQQ

[wakina]

I make mine short on hard wire and use a regular leader of about 60 inches. Here are some pictures most without the snell and 1 with it attached. I use the stirrup clevis but if you are tying on mono or fluor the best to use the folded clevis or a plastic clevis. The stirrup clevis wears the line rather fast and creates a weak spot in your harness. I use this harness style no matter which blade & bead combination that I use. They are easy to store and easy to change from one harness to another or even to a spoon if that pleases you, just unsnap from the leader and snap another in its place. No long leaders to wrap up on pool noodles or other storage devises and best of all no exposed hooks.

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[dansdad]

Wakina,
Do you know of a bait shop that would carry harnesses similar to these? Same style blade? I would love to get some in purple or purple/gold.

[basser53]

I just want to thank you all for sharing your pics and knowledge of Lake Erie Western Basin.I only get up to the big lake a couple of weeks a year,so i don't have a lot to post about.But I do follow along every day to learn from you.With your help it has really expanded my personal knowledge of this great sport.Again thank you all for being the most unselfish ,reliable folks on this great planet.Good luck and stay safe.

[wakina]

I think the vast majority are either home made or come from custom shops. You might contact DJ custom lures or maybe David at DreamCatcher baits for special painting, or you can home grow your own. I make all my own and the blades are getting harder and harder to find painted in patterns that I like. Here are a few web sites that have hatchet(Doc Shelton) blades, mine are made with the size 6 blade. You can make them with the coated stranded wire also and they are more durable than mono or fluro line instead of the hard wire. I can change the hooks out on the water, so making the snell independent to the blade bead assembly makes them more durable/longer lasting. The shorter the blade bead assembly is the longer they last since they do not kink as easy. I get most of mine from Janns netcraft but they have quit handling the Jr Streak and Tommy Harris blades. The Pro Eye blades are nice but not as durable.

http://backwatercustomtackle.com/pages/blades.html
http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/proeye-...es/310478.aspx
http://www.franksgreatoutdoors.com/h...-blades-1.html
http://www.rippn-lips.com/Walleye_Wa..._6_p/wwh-6.htm
http://www.rippn-lips.com/Rippn_Lips...des_p/hhb6.htm

[wakina]

I thought maybe some of you might be interested in the following material. The Hatchet blade falls at the same spot on the chart as the Tomahawk blade. I have never had a problem with the Hatchet Blades at speeds up to 2.2 SOG. On the hard wire they do not twist the leader like the would if the harness was 60" long and actually made on the leader and all one pc.

http://www.lineonfishing.com/index.p...50-blade-types

[Drifter]

I thought maybe some of you might be interested in the following material. The Hatchet blade falls at the same spot on the chart as the Tomahawk blade. I have never had a problem with the Hatchet Blades at speeds up to 2.2 SOG. On the hard wire they do not twist the leader like the would if the harness was 60" long and actually made on the leader and all one pc.

http://www.lineonfishing.com/index.p...50-blade-types

What size / gauge wire do you use. Galvanized, Stainless, uncoated? Do you just get it a Lowes or the Hardware store?

Thanks for all of your help all of the time.

[wakina]

What size / gauge wire do you use. Galvanized, Stainless, uncoated? Do you just get it a Lowes or the Hardware store?

Thanks for all of your help all of the time.

These are the ones that I use. http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/wire-lu...ts/320608.aspx I use the 4" .030 they are stainless steel. I have posted the link to Janns Netcraft only because it shows the picture for reference. I am not advocating that you should buy from them, that type of wire form is available from several different vendors and you should make your own choice as to which vendor to buy from. With that being said I do buy and use their wire forms. Any thing bigger than .035 wire and they become almost to hard/stiff to get a nice clean eye on the final twist.

I don't like the quick change clevis, http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/quick-c...es/313109.aspx to many lost blades, so I use the stirrup clevis in size 3 or 4, http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/wire-clevises/320907.aspx , and in a pinch use the size 4 folded clevis, http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/folded-...es/320914.aspx . It is better to have the clevis one size to big than one size to small because the blade needs room to move away from the shaft to work properly and to not twist leaders if it stops or spins intermittently, it must spin freely all the time to avoid tackle problems.

I make up several with the blade color/pattern that I want then switch out the harness instead of using the quick change clevis and just switching blades. Changing the bead, blade assembly with the short harnesses is actually quicker than changing just the blade and since they store easy and in less space they take up less room than 20 standard harnesses do wrapped on pool noodles.

On Edit: I forgot to mention that one of the most important components, and they go on the leaders, are the swivels and swivel snaps/snap swivels. Use a high quality stainless ball bearing swivel and snap swivel on your leaders and you will avoid most if not all twisted leaders. The higher the quality the better.