Description
The Science of the ASSORTED FLAVORS Walleye Presentation
When you are navigating vast open-water structures, targeting deep suspended walleyes, or trolling through shifting light conditions, choosing a single color can limit your success. The ASSORTED FLAVORS custom crawler harness relies on a sophisticated multi-color palette designed to weaponize a broad spectrum of visible light waves. Built around a heavy-action size 5 deep-cup Colorado spinner blade, this presentation centers around a brilliant, multi-colored rainbow scheme. The front face showcases a complex, overlapping gradient of bright orange, deep violet, emerald green, and golden yellow streaks running vertically across the blade. Unlike many of our rigs, this specialized finish contains absolutely no fluorescent or ultraviolet paint on either side. Instead, it relies on clean, high-fidelity color fields that mimic the natural, shifting hues of specialized forage fish. This natural presentation is highly effective in crystal-clear water basins and high-sun situations where overly aggressive neon colors can sometimes cause cautious trophies to turn away.
The custom, hand-assembled bead trail matches this complete rainbow progression flawlessly. The line is threaded with an intricate sequence of premium Aurora Borealis (AB) coated beads that mirror the blade’s exact color shifts. Starting directly past a high-spin folded clevis and spring, the configuration begins with a bright orange accent bead, transitioning smoothly into translucent amber, yellow, and deep ruby-red beads. The trail continues past a vibrant chartreuse focal bead into clear yellow, turquoise, and deep grape-purple spacers before reaching the hook connection. Each faceted bead features a specialized irised coating that catches stray sunlight, producing subtle, multi-directional micro-flashes underwater. This carefully segmented, full-spectrum trail holds a tracking fish’s focus completely, leading their eyes down the line to maximize hook-up ratios on cautious biters. If you want to vary your spread with alternative sizes, be sure to check out our sister rigs: the downsized ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS crawler harness brings a compact size 4 layout to early-season spreads, while the massive NATURAL FLAVORS trolling crawler harness steps up to a size 6 profile for late-season giants.
The Painted Back Rigs Contrast Advantage
The secret behind the continuous success of the ASSORTED FLAVORS crawler harness lies in its unique front-to-back optical contrast mechanism. While the front face drives fish crazy with its smooth, multi-colored rainbow profile, the reverse side features a fully coated, highly reflective copper-orange hammered deep-cup finish. When trolled at ideal speeds between 0.8 and 1.2 mph, the size 5 deep-cup Colorado blade displaces a massive volume of water, producing a heavy, rhythmic underwater thump that appeals directly to a walleye’s lateral line system. As the blade rotates, the deep dimples of the hammered metallic back catch light differently than the smooth, multi-hued front face, creating a rapid, strobe-like transition between a broken metallic shimmer and a solid rainbow flash. This rapid, erratic color-shifting effect creates an optical illusion of a living, panicking forage fish, completely eliminating the uniform, unnatural glare that often spooks wary trophies and forcing big walleyes to commit to a violent reaction strike.
Premium Tournament-Grade Assembly Hardware
Every custom worm harness is hand-assembled with rugged, tournament-proven hardware selected to handle the violent head shakes of a monster walleye without failure:
- The Leader: Professionally tied with a 5-foot leader of premium 17-lb. test Seaguar INVIZX fluorocarbon line, delivering elite abrasion resistance against jagged rock reefs, heavy timber, and zebra mussels while remaining virtually invisible to fish underwater.
- The Staggered Hooks: Built with an intentional, staggered two-hook setup featuring one size #1 and one size #2 red Octopus hooks spaced exactly 3.5 inches apart. This precise alignment keeps a large nightcrawler perfectly straight to maximize natural swimming action while completely eliminating short-strikes.
- The Swivel: Finished with a robust, 70-lb. test size #6 black crane swivel explicitly engineered to spin freely under load, completely eliminating line twist during hours of continuous tracking behind heavy bottom bouncers or planer boards.
