Thinking bass

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This is tied with a bendback and a weedguard to be cast up into the weedbed and retrieved. That's how most bass are caught on plastic worms on a small spring fed lake behind my brother's house. It's about 31/2 inches long.

Hook: six times long #2 with front 1/4 of shank bent slightly down.
weight: lead wire tied on top of hook shank from bend of hook to bendback
weedguard: 20 pound momo
rear wing: zonker strip tied in upside down
rib: gold wire
body: australian possum
front wing: zonker strip measured to fit tied on bottom of hook at head and locked down with spiraled rib
beard: pheasant rump

I'm always thinking of bass. That fly (a little blurry so some detail gone) is similar to one we call a redneck rabbit. It will catch bass. Good colour choice too.