Taking Soft Plastics To A New Level

10″ Anaconda & 7″ Baby Anaconda Rigging

• This Worm Design is the most advanced in the fishing world today. It has already been responsible for helping to win many major Tournament victories across the country and just recently during the 2008 FLW East West Fish off, Greg Hackney set the all time weight record for a 3 day event with 15 Bass totaling over 109 lbs…..On the 10 inch Rage Anaconda.

• This design comes in both 7 inch and 10 inch models and can be rigged with a variety of hook sizes and styles depending on the type of presentation you are looking for. The most popular is Texas rigged using a bullet weight from 1/8 oz to 1 oz depending on the amount of wind and water depth when fishing. A ¼ oz weight is a standard and provides excellent action for both. For casting with a drag and stop, or lift and fall retrieve, an un-pegged weight is very popular. For flipping or pitching in brush or trees, a pegged weight is advised to keep the bait and weight together which helps you to better navigate the structure as well as provide a more vertical presentation.

• Carolina rigged is also very effective using as light of a weight as necessary for the wind and depth conditions. This technique allows the bait to free swim at any and all depths which is very attractive to the fish.

• A favorite style of rigging is using a keel weighted hook. This allows the bait to fall with a different profile and action and is extremely effective for finicky fish in shallow water and over grass or moss beds. Light or low wind conditions are best for this style of presentation.

• Completely weightless using an EWG hook in the sizes mentioned below is another popular way to fish the Rage Anacondas. This technique is very attractive in extremely shallow water or over the grass and moss beds.

• Any of the popular hook designs are effective with the Anacondas which includes Standard offset worm hook and EWG hook. Preferred sizes are 3/0 to 5/0 for the 7 inch model and 5/0 to 11/0 on the 10 inch version.
  

Strike King Pro Greg Hackney, nicknamed 'Hack Attack', set a new 3-day record with a whopping 109 lb. 6 oz. weigh-in at the FLW East-West Fishoff at Falcon Lake in Zapata, TX in November.  His weapon of choice was the RageTail 10" Anaconda worm in Bama Bug and Red Bug colors.
 
When he spotted bass under the boat, he cast out past the school. Instead of turning on his trolling motor, he let the wind push the boat and drag the Anaconda right into the school. He never turned the first bass that took his bait. The big bass took the Anaconda and kept going, finally breaking the line. It was a monster.  He sat down in his boat, and tied-on a new Anaconda. On the next three casts, he caught three 7-pounders in back-to-back casts – one weighing 7-pounds 14-ounces, another 7-pounds 11-ounces, and yet another 7-pounds 8-ounces. On the first day, he ended up with 32 pounds of bass, and was in 4th place.

On the second day, Greg caught two bass on the Plum 10" Anaconda.  He also used the new RageTail Lobster with his new Hack Attack Jig to show the bass a different lure.  He used a green-pumpkin-colored jig with a perch-colored skirt and a watermelon-red Rage Lobster on the back. He put the Rage Lobster, which is a really-big craw, on the back of that light jig to slow-down the fall of this jig. The bass wanted a bait with a big profile that fell really slowly. He would drag the lure through the brush very slowly to get the fish to bite.

The last day Greg caught four bass on the Anaconda and one bass on the Hack Attack jig. He weighed in 15 bass in the tournament and 12 of those were caught on the Anaconda, while three were caught on the Hack Attack jig. This was the first time he had fished the Anaconda in a tournament. He said the 7-pounders he caught during practice built his confidence in the bait. The Anaconda is a big worm but also has a really-big tail. About 2/3 of the worm’s body is tail with a unique swimming action and a big profile that really turns-on the big bass. Hackney quoted, "I’ve decided the Anaconda will be the only worm I fish. I caught nearly 110 pounds of bass using the Anaconda."  

He took home a purse of $25,000 and qualified for the Forrest Wood Cup.  Not only did he set the 3 day FLW record, but he now owns the heaviest single day five bass limit at 39 lbs. 11 oz.  Great job, Greg.