![]() ![]() Instantly, red harness worms became my new favorite bass bait! After quite a fight on light tackle, I finally landed a bass weighing nearly 6 pounds, a personal best for many years. Then, I began reeling it steadily fast enough to turn the propeller. ![]() I tossed it past a sandbar and let the bait sink to the bottom in the trough between the bar and the shoreline. Without waiting for Dad’s answer, I quickly tied on a bright red harness worm, the first time I had ever used any kind of soft-plastic bait. Let’s go.” My natural response to that was always, “One more cast, please?” By mid-morning, the sun began to beat down on us and several people arrived at the popular swimming hole.Dad said, “We haven’t caught anything. On the nose, a straight wire held several colored metal, glass or plastic beads and what looked like a miniature metal aircraft propeller.Įarly one July 4 many years ago, Dad took me fishing at a pond near our home. Long before I ever heard the phrase “Texas-rigged worm,” people used “harness worms.”Īdapted from a rig designed to tempt walleye with live nightcrawlers, these pre-rigged baits came with two or three hooks protruding from the belly of a soft-plastic worm and linked together with fishing line. ![]()
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