Since the 1950’s, Worden’s Original Rooster Tail has been one of the most productive spinners around. Used to catch just about any gamefish, the Rooster Tail’s pulsating hackle tail and attractive spinning action will make fish strike, many times when nothing else will work.Rooster Tail can be matched to nearly any fish species or water condition. – See more at: https://www.yakimabait.com

• Unique spinning action
• In-line weighted body design
• Pulsating hackle tail attracts fish

1.7g

206 – 1/16oz – size 12 treble hook or size 8 single hook

Worden’s History

The name “Worden” is synonymous with fishing in America. From the Worden family has sprung a litany of iconic fishing brands that have changed the face of fishing in the United States and worldwide. It was 1934 when R.B. Worden founded Worden’s Floating Spinner Company, which was later renamed Yakima Bait Company in 1941. Although his earlier business had produced cast aluminum water wheels designed to produce electricity, Mr. Worden now made and sold handmade fishing flies and two and three inch bass wooden plugs with deer hair wings that caused them to spin.

Other early products included the Worden’s Featherweight Flash Spoon, Flash Fly, Spinning Fly, Twinkle Fly, and the Spoon Fly, all predecessors to some of today’s most popular and productive lures.

And it wasn’t just fishing lures that Mr. Worden created. During World War II he developed the Worden Belt Reel, a predecessor to today’s spinning reel. The Worden Belt Reel, or “belly reel” as it was called, was worn at the front of the waist and worked as a line holder. The user ran the line from the Belt Reel through the eyelets of the fishing rod and to their hook. The Belt Reel allowed the then stiff monofilament line to come off the reel freely and due to the large spool size kept line twist at bay.

Howard Worden joined his father’s company in the late 1940’s and soon was developing lures too. One summer, during a visit to a lake in California, Howard built a weighted spinner with a willow leaf blade and a hackle tail. Called the “Retreat Special”, Yakima Bait started production on the spinner and began selling it around the region. Howard felt like the new spinner needed a better name, and, after watching the hydroplane races in Seattle that summer, began calling his new spinner, the Rooster Tail.

The Rooster Tail was mostly a regional lure until the 1960’s when a few anglers from Florida tried out sample Rooster Tails they’d received at the annual Fishing Tackle Show in Chicago and immediately caught bass using them. Soon everyone on the East Coast had to have these new, hot spinners and as they say, “the rest is history.” Today, Rooster Tail is one of the most popular spinners and are used by anglers around the globe.

Today, Yakima Bait Company is one of the top fishing lure manufacturers in the world, producing products under the Worden’s , Poe’s and Hildebrandt brand names. The values that established Yakima Bait Company in its early years continue on with an unwavering commitment to producing the world’s finest and most effective fishing lures.