Swimming Senko Question?

[senko-guru]

I have heard nothing but great things about these things, do they really work , what do you guys think?

[Calistar]

oh my god....not this thread again....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!



Greg H.

[L.Hackney]

Stinko, your a bad boy....

[fish_food]

I have heard nothing but great things about these things, do they really work , what do you guys think?

They're really effective if you dip them in MonaVie! Ask me how!

[mac (Doyle McEwen)]

I have used them on the Delta and at Clearlake with some amount of success..Are there better baits out there, could be..Use them when fishing in or around grass..

mac

[Joe W.]

I thought you were the Senko guru?

[senko-guru]

I am, just thought I would get the opinions of the rest of the guys in here. Just because my senko fishing abilities are above par from the rest of the fishing world, doesnt mean i dont value the opinions of others.

[Joe W.]

I've caught fish on them. I fish them with 800lbs wire.

[Matt Moreau]

I like to drop shot them with a shark hook and 5lb sinker!!!

[senko-guru]

I like to drop shot them with a shark hook and 5lb sinker!!!

I thought I was the only one that did that, works great. Hows it going Matt, been a long time since Ive been on here.

[brambo0311]

I have a worm binder full of nothing but them. They are in back of a cabnet in the garage behind the banjo minnow kit and pocket fishermen. All I need now is a stadium pal and i can book a trip with cooch. I have only caught limited numbers of fish on them. I did really well with the white ones in arizona for stripers, but they were hitting anything at that point. I would use a fish trap as cheap alternative that works better. The money minnow, and basstrix will work way better though but more expensive. If you dart head a regular sinko I think you will get better results, something about there swim action just doesnt work right for me. They do ok when bass are getting ready to hop into bed, but I would throw a tripple trout or hudd first for bigger fish. Its the only thing made by yamamoto that I am not a big fan of.

[Joe W.]

They do catch fish. I bought some to try and have caught fish on them the few times I have thrown them. I just slow rolled them on the bottom and they got bit. I don't fish them a whole lot but they do catch fish.

[DeltaDan]

Senko -- Try Marinating them in Ocean Spray ........... But again -- WTH do I know other than Senko's ....... Like yourself ........ JUST DO NOT WORK !!

[brambo0311]

You still aint stuck a senko fish dan?

[gman2047]

These are just as effective as the regular senkos.. I had good succes during the pre-spawn with these. I would make long cast past the areas i thought fish were staging and would hop it or use a yo yo type retrieve. I usually got bit on the fall or when I made the bait get erractic like it was swimmin away. I rigged it with a small nail weight in head or the smallest bullet head i could find. 1/16 or 1/32 oz head.. 50 pound braid or 65 pound with floro leader. Worked great through sparce tullies in the tract on flats. best colors for me was green pumkin and black/blue flake.. I will be throwing them this year. ohh.. forgot.. did experiment with them wacky style and yes they worked..all i can say is zappu..

good luck.

[David Rogers]

I caught a few on them at Clear Lake this year but I think you are better off just using a Senko when a Senko is needed, texas rigged in the toolies and wacky rigged when fishing the rocks and docks and just use a real swim bait of your choice and size. I did not hear of any of the BASS or FLW guys using swim senkos this year but I sure heard alot of Huds, River2sea & Osprey's.
Just my .02:)

[Joe W.]

I caught a few on them at Clear Lake this year but I think you are better off just using a Senko when a Senko is needed, texas rigged in the toolies and wacky rigged when fishing the rocks and docks and just use a real swim bait of your choice and size. I did not hear of any of the BASS or FLW guys using swim senkos this year but I sure heard alot of Huds, River2sea & Osprey's.
Just my .02:)

True, there are better swimbaits. Using what everyone else is using isn't always a good thing though. Something different is a good thing sometimes.

[ppickerell]

We KILLED with swimmers last spring at Clearlake.

[Cooch]

If you bought these, with the first intent that if ya took the success of the Senko, and matched it with the success of a swimbait, that you'd have a bait that's gonna be twice as good as anything else you've ever tossed, ye gonna be highly disappointed! I know I was. I couldn't git bit tossing it weightless like a Senko, and I couldn't git bit with em tossing em on a darter head like a swimbait.

It wasn't until I started to experiment with them that I began to find ways to use them that attracked bites. My first adventure was tossing em like a Texas rigged worm. I got bit and began to catch my first fish on them during this past spring. I was tossing it in the same places I would toss a Senko or Iovinno Spade worm. Were they better than the other two, not really, but I could catch fish regularly with it this way.

The second way I tried was attaching them to a swiming jig head. Somewhere I picked up several differnt colors of these swimming jigs, the ones with the fancy style head, sparkly eyes and short colorful skirts. I began to flip, pitch and cast it to targets and key zones much like a spinnerbait and just slow roll it back. I caught some fish doing it this way, but nothing really ta set my wheels spinning out of control.

With this concept in mind, I then tried them as a trailer on a blade and buzz bait. Worked great on the buzzbait, I actually caught several really nice fish on it back in June/July. But who doesn't catch good fish that time of year, on any kind of a buzzbait? Used on a spinnerbait, it was very cool looking. I didn't catch any fish using it like this, but hey, I sure made truth tellers out of KB & BDO. It was prolly due to I don't know $hi+ about spinnerbaits anyhow! HAR!

The last thing I used them on was a Rodstrainer Shimjig. These are hair jigs I use for stripers. Attached to a white and/or Chartrues hair jig, it made for the perfect big white thing that a striper will just engulf. And engulf they did when tossing and winding that concotion where ever I was looking fer stripers. I actually caught my biggest, an 8 pound largemouth bass, using the Swimmin' Senko in this fashion.

If you attempt to use this bait strictly as a weightless worm or like a swimbait, you'll be very disappointed in it's effectiveness. But if you find different ways to use it as a trailer, I think you'll find a place for this bait in yer arsenal. Yamamoto is currently field testing a few new color patterns for the Swimmin' Senko. They have implimented the Laminated process to the mold machine of this bait. They are kinda cool, so look to hear more about them down the road.

Ps. Okay, okay, I know this is coming, so I'll git it out of the way now. No, we prolly will not use these when we go Crappie fishing at ClearLake on the 29th, but I WILL, bring ya a bone er two! HAR! HAR! HAR!

[David Rogers]

Mixing up is good, giving the fish something dif to look at is always a good idea. If I only had one rod to use I would go swim senko but I think these 2 dif fishing styles should be kept seperate. I love the Senko, I have caught a ton of fish with them this year at Clear Lake but did not do very well with the swim senko in the same areas. I think if you going to swim something it should look like something that swims, I think if just gives you a better look.