Senko lover

You're not the first, my friend . Maybe on here, but not on fantasy.

I'm homeschooled, and I'm trying to finish school for the year this weekend. Starting a landscaping job didn't help getting school done, and it's dragged out until now. I don't want to be doing school in June/July, so because my boss is at the beach, I'm gonna be finishing school. IF I finish school, I'm going fishing, of course. No-brainer for me when there's a holiday. And I'm going to Cabela's today with my Dad.

DUDE. That looks so much like one of Speed's swimbaits that he posted a pic of in the Tackle Purchase Thread:

Competing at that level, getting the bass in the boat could be worth 100,000 dollars, or a spot in a classic, or 500,000 dollars. So, they get it in any way possible. As far as holding them so they are bending at the neck.....that's a different story. Bugs me too.

WTG!!

I know that Brent Erlher loves the Flappin Hog, which is similar. I haven't used the Physco but it sure looks awesome.

I wouldn't put them on a small jighead. It can be done, but you will not have as good of a hookup ratio.

"I also saved the trick worm and plan to use it again this week." Isn't it funny how cheap we can be? Yet we blow lots of money on gear the next day.

Honestly, if I bought everything of mine brand new (most of what I have is bargain bins and used), I would just get Green Pumpkin and Black/Blue. They both work on my ponds, and for that matter, just about everywhere else I've gone.

I have a bad track record of bank fishing there. Still haven't caught anything. I have a former FLW co-angler in my church who fishes tourneys there all the time. He has said he'll take me out somtime, which would be really cool. In the prespawn, it takes over 30 pounds to win an tournament on Falls!

I hate to admit it, but I still have not dropshot. Time to change that.........

Yeah they do a really nice job. I love B.A.S.S. but I get a little tired of Sanders and Zona......

I have taught myself to skip. It's pretty painful to watch me, and I still end up with "professional overruns," but it's a small price to pay to get into the places where you couldn't without skipping. Point in case: I was fishing a pond with my boss. The water was full of large limbs and docks. I caught several nice bass skipping a senko under the dock, while he was forced to watch because he couldn't skip. Just practice, and you'll get better.

I just watched an old FLW show in which Brian Thrift worked a jerkabait very fast, faster than I would fish a fluke or topwater, and caught the first 20-pound bag ever recorded in FLW history on Kentucky lake. Just goes to show, conventional approches aren't the only ways to catch bass.

Well.....on the plus side, they didn't get skunked!

Just watched this FLW show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v=wq8art50eSc. Really like Daniels and his personality. I think he'll add a lot to the sport. Great finish.

I know, he's the awesomest guy ever. I work in landscaping/mowing. We pass ponds all the time on the way to work, not to mention Falls Lake, and we both look at them. It's not unusual to hear the following comments in the work truck. "There's one breaking out there." "Dang, topwater would slay them on that pond." "Water's a little muddy since the rain hit." Yeah, I have it pretty good

This one was my bro's first senko bass:

Some of my latest bass, mostly on topwater. I'll have to do them in two parts .

His boat was REEAALLY messy. I could barely stand it, being an organization freak

My boss took me out today on a very private, stocked pond that his Grandfather is part of a club on. We had a johnboat, and started beating the banks. I caught 4 on a wacky rigged senko. We then moved to an area FULL of lily pads. The entire time on the pond, you could hear bass blowing up in the middle of the lily pad sea. It was like a BamaBass "Topwater Strikes" vid with just the sound. It was the first time I'd ever gotten on a good lily pad bite. I caught 8 or 9 hopping a fluke over the pads, and my boss caught 3 or 4. I didn't have my frog with me, although I did catch one on a buzzbait. I lost count of the exact number I caught, but they were amazingly hard, violent strikes and for the 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pound size, they fought like monsters. It was a blast. He said that the fishing was really, really slow for that pond. He told me if you get on a good bite there, you can not only catch 25+ fish, they are usually better fish over 2 1/2 and they almost always catch one over 4 pounds. On any other pond, I wouldn't believe him, but I totally do. I must have seen over 100 bass jump out over the lily pads chasing something down. Couldn't believe it. I can't wait to get back there!

I got lots of pics, just haven't taken the time to upload them.

I realized that my original post was not very coherent, so I revised it.

I got some pics, but felt to lazy to upload them . I'll see if I can get them posted. Haven't done it from my phone yet.

My boss took me out today on a very private, stocked pond that his Grandfather is part of a club on. We had a johnboat, and started beating the banks. I caught 4 on a wacky rigged senko. We then moved to an area FULL of lily pads. The entire time on the pond, you could hear bass blowing up in the middle of the lily pad sea. It was like a BamaBass "Topwater Strikes" vid with just the sound. It was the first time I'd ever gotten on a good lily pad bite. I caught 8 or 9 hopping a fluke over the pads, and my boss caught 3 or 4. I didn't have my frog with me, although I did catch one on a buzzbait. I lost count of the exact number I caught, but they were amazingly hard, violent strikes and for the 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pound size, they fought like monsters. It was a blast. He said that the fishing was really, really slow for that pond. He told me if you get on a good bite there, you can not only catch 25+ fish, they are usually better fish over 2 1/2 and they almost always catch one over 4 pounds. On any other pond, I wouldn't believe him, but I totally do. I must have seen over 100 bass jump out over the lily pads chasing something down. Couldn't believe it. I can't wait to get back there!