Senko's

[FishinBill]

What's your favorite size and color?

Favorite way to rig them?

[JPSavage]

Any brown or green shade seems to work for me.As you know a ton of colors available......Dirty water, brighter colors...Just MO.

[Troublehook]

I cant tell you my favorite just yet,(havnt fished 'em much) but I can tell you what is popular. Size=5" Color=#222

and rig=eather wacky or texas.

[bassn1]

Any color is good as long as it's black!!...Black works great in almost every situation. Pumpkin, green pumpkin and smoke with silver glitter are my back up's. Wacky rig is the only way to go.

[Slyster]

That's funny, because I tried black a number of times last summer and never did well... and oddly enough.. I had the BEST success with wacky rigged bubblegum colored!

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[JPSavage]

bassn1....What hooks do you use for your wacky rigs?....I might try some of those Gamo hooks designed for wacky rigs.

[bassn1]

I use the wacky hooks by Falcon 3/0 or 4/0 (they have the wire weed gaurd), you can get them at Fleet Farm...spendy items, 4 bills for 4 hooks. I rig them with a red split ring (size 6). Just hook the hook under the split ring and don't touch the plastic. Your bait will last a lot longer.

[ssaamm]

I have had good luck using the wacky rig w/ pink and white senkos. Gulp sinking minnows rigged the same way work well, too. I use 1/0 or 2/0 Gamagatsu(sp?) wide gap hooks.

[carlcmc]

i get a bunch of:

laminate senkos:

-red shad

-watermellon/white laminate

-some rainbow laminates

regular 5"

-clear with black fleck

-clear

-black

-chart

-chart with black fleck

-cinnamon brown ********

-watermellon

-brown with yellow tail

weightless texas rigged, wack rig with weedguard

[Captain B.R.K]

Red/Black fleck

Blue/Black

and

Watermelon w/White Laminate ...Yummy

[bass-o-matic]

Bassn1,

How do you use the split ring? Do you feed the senko through the ring to the middle and then just hook it between the two? If so, does the ring affect the action at all? I've heard of others mention a split ring before, but have always been unsure of the technique.

[Maineiac]

5" generally but I will go to 6" and the big 7" if the fish allow it. I also use the 4" ones on a tough bite or if I am trying to match forage size. Most commonly fish them off an EWG hook. 2/0 for the 4", 3/0 for the 5", 3/0 or 4/0 for the 6" and 5/0 for the 7".

Colors? My go to is black with blue flake. After that I guess it would be solid black, watermellon, watermellon with red flake, watermellon with chartreuse tail, black and blue laminate, peanutbutter and jelly, junebug and black and red. At times but more as a jerk bait of all sizes I use white or bubblegum and Merthiolate.

I hook most of them Texas style weedless and weightless but will peg a weight up the line if I want to get down quicker. For Wacky I use rubber "O" rings in the middle and generally use a 3/0 weedless hook. If I'm out of "O" rings I will use a couple turns of narrow electriciand tape. Either way you will tear up less bait.

[JPSavage]

Hey Maineiac......Welcome aboard......jps

[bassn1]

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Bassn1,

How do you use the split ring?

Depends on how you wnt the bait to fall. Rig it right in the middle and it falls horizontaly. If you rig it off center then it will spiral (sp?) down.Just hook it between the ring and the bait without touching the plastic and it will last a lot longer.Rubber O rings work great too, you can pick up 100 of them for $5 off HSOList.