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Starting to get back to my freshwater roots. I did. Some largemouth fishing last year but really want to get into it this spring. It's amazing how things have changed in the last twenty years I was chasing striped bass. I was talking with a guy from fish club about senkos. He convinced me I'm going to buy some from cabellas. What sizes do you recommend? I looked at the Yamamoto website, they have a ton of colors if you were going to buy say 4 or 5 colors which senko colors would you choose? Can you rig them Texas style minus the weight and what brand and size of hook you recommend for a 5" senko. What about the wacky worm set up do you guys fish it? Curious about your color and size recommendations. Thanks charlie

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FYI you can duplicate identical performance with Big bite baits senko baits 6$ for a 25 pack if you use a lightly weighted wack worm hook.

 

 

My colors if i resort to them are Peanut Butter and jelly (purple over reddish brown)

 

Baby bass (green over white)

 

Black blue flake

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I get the same number of bites with the Bass Pro and Yum knock offs as the Senkos. Prefer the 6" and because bass tend to eat these things I fish them with 4/0-6/0 wide gap hooks to avoid gut hooking them. Sometimes you don't respond fast enough and they wilL swim off and just eat it.

 

I know the 5" is the standard but I'm always trophy hunting and have caught six pounders on the 6". These baits should be illegal considering how effective they are. Cast. Let it settle to the bottom and just weight until they pick it up if they didn't do so on the initial drop. You'll be amazed how many bass will hit after it's been sitting there for over a minute. I suspect they followed it down and then just losS their mind and patience.

HOW BOUT DEM COWBOYS

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I mostly use 5" but have some 6". The colors that seem to work best for me are black, green pumpkin and watermelon. Solid or with various flakes. The Swim Senko can be especially effective at times so get a pack or 2 of them too.

 

I've tried some of the knockoffs. Strike King Shimmy Stick, Yumdinger, BPS and others. They have the advantage of being cheaper and more durable than the Senko. The Senkos fall apart quickly. I go through nearly one every fish I catch.

 

But the knockoffs I've tried don't cast as far, don't sink as quickly and don't have quite the same action as the Senko. I think the Yumdinger is the best of the knockoffs but none are quite as effective as the Senko most of the time.

 

I almost always fish them weightless with a 4/0 to 5/0 EWG hook, through the nose Texas style but I know a lot of anglers prefer wacky. The O ring setup mentioned above is popular because the Senko will last longer. They even sell O ring kits now with a tube that makes putting it on easier.

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I mostly use 5" but have some 6". The colors that seem to work best for me are black, green pumpkin and watermelon. Solid or with various flakes. The Swim Senko can be especially effective at times so get a pack or 2 of them too.

 

I've tried some of the knockoffs. Strike King Shimmy Stick, Yumdinger, BPS and others. They have the advantage of being cheaper and more durable than the Senko. The Senkos fall apart quickly. I go through nearly one every fish I catch.

 

But the knockoffs I've tried don't cast as far, don't sink as quickly and don't have quite the same action as the Senko. I think the Yumdinger is the best of the knockoffs but none are quite as effective as the Senko most of the time.

 

I almost always fish them weightless with a 4/0 to 5/0 EWG hook, through the nose Texas style but I know a lot of anglers prefer wacky. The O ring setup mentioned above is popular because the Senko will last longer. They even sell O ring kits now with a tube that makes putting it on easier.

 

Pretty much my experience. I can get usually 2-4 fish per senko although it may only last for one fish.

See you on the big one.
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love senkos. caught a 6.1 lbser on one this year and this season was slow for me.  dont toss them back into the water when they get ripped and old, they really screw with the water and fish. the fish will eat them. youll catch a nice tasty trout filet it and have it be filled with senkos and other plastics.

wacky rig is one of my favorite ways. i dont get alot of big fish but if i want numbers i use em. ive out fished my buddies 9-1 on wacky. fish em SLOW!!!!! twitch twitch pause. 

smallies love em to.    

 


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Whacky is effective, however I prefer T rig because it is weedless. Whacky picks up too many weeds for my taste and I've often caught more in the same boat, with the same color Senko with a partner who was fishing his whacky.  Perhaps because I had more water time because he was too busy picking off weeds while I was fishing.


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I do prefer wacky myself, but I've been consistently out-fished by my long time partner TX rigged. I like the feeling w the wacky vs the "nothing" feeling that I get from TX rig.



 The way they fall  is significantly different. Wacky drops pretty much straight down but I think the ends fluttering as it drops is what is enticing to the bass. T style, properly balanced, falls with a rocking back and forth motion. The bass where I usually fish seem to prefer the latter


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Lets see....wacky, TX rig, drop shot, Carolina rig. Weighted/weightless. It does not matter how you rig them up, they all work. Currently I use the weedless wacky setup with a 1/16 oz. weight usually with a 4" Senko. The smaller size really work better in highly pressured waters. Some of our club members even use a 3" Senko during tournaments.

 

As for colors I use the basic black, blk/blu spec, watermelon, pumpkinseed. One of my favorites is the melon/lime laminate.

 

You should have no problem catching fish this Spring when the SENKO is at its best. Work on your reaction time setting the hook to avoid the infamous "GUT HOOK". GOOD LUCK!!!

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Whacky is effective, however I prefer T rig because it is weedless. Whacky picks up too many weeds for my taste and I've often caught more in the same boat, with the same color Senko with a partner who was fishing his whacky.  Perhaps because I had more water time because he was too busy picking off weeds while I was fishing.







some ponds id never use a wacky cuz of the  weeds but the ponds were the weeds arent bad i catch a lot of fish.  i fished at one of my stomping grounds. been fishin this place my entire life.

the only fish i caught was on a wacky rig fished as a top water. the brand i used was super slow sinking. i would twitch along the top and fish would smack it.   caught 4 bass and  they all came on wacky 1-3lbsers.



 few months later i caught a 6.1 lbser on a senko  at this spot. missed a larger one at night the next day. =( had it at shore and the fish snapped my line. i was reaching down to grab it. POP!!!!  this also hit a senko

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