While I can't speak for the bass in your neck of the woods, I think that there are more effective (and easier) patterns to tie for bass. I would recommend black leeches tied on size 2 streamer hooks (adding a red bead head seems to make these even more effective) or polar fiber minnows in chartreuse over white or all black also on size 2 stream hooks. These are by far my most productive patterns for bass.

Jim Smith