Swimming Senkos

[Choporoz]

It might have been this thread that convinced me to buy the kit with about 3 dozen of these from BPS.  I've still got most of them, I think.  Every couple years I break them out......still have yet to get so much as a bite on one

[J Francho]

I’ve never caught a fish on one either. 

[Smells like fish]

I love 5" GYCB Senkos. Does the swimming model have the same salt content meaning does it sink and tear the same?

[Log Catcher]

I did like @Choporoz and bought the kit with several different colors from Cabelas several years ago. I have caught a few on them but I still have a lot of them. I fish them the way the info in the kit had and use a Texas rig with a screw in sinker. Like most GYCB baits they are not real durable so they don't last through very many fish.

[Cgolf]

I have had great luck at times with them of course on a slider head during a tough bite. I would let them sink, and when I started to retrieve the bait the fish was either there or hit right away. I did test them on the back of a swim jig and they put out the most thump of baits I tested. Like many baits I haven't thrown them in years even though I have done really well with them. The only thing I hated was the cost, so I bought them on sale and have a deep 3700 box half full still of like 5 different colors. Probably should throw them again because they are great baits.

[snake95]

I wonder how @Sam and @roadwarriorand @.ghoti. feel about them now, 13 years later?

 

Sometimes I guess it is good to resurect a thread from the grave...

[roadwarrior]

I still use the Swim Senko as a swim jig and spinnerbait trailer. However, the Rage Swimmer

has replaced the bait as my "go-to".

 

[Sam]

7 hours ago, snake95 said:

I wonder how @Sam and @roadwarriorand @.ghoti. feel about them now, 13 years later?

 

Sometimes I guess it is good to resurect a thread from the grave...

Pair them with the Storm 360 GT Search bait rattling jig heads and see what happens.

[A-Jay]

The swim Senko was first favorite Vibrating Jig trailer;

especially early season. 

Since the introduction of the Zako, I hardly use them any more. 

A-Jay 

[txchaser]

I stopped fishing them and I don't know why! Probably got distracted with some other shiny thing. Mostly fished them weightless T-rig and did well with them... low and painfully slow. Occassionally would put on a weighted hook so they'd fall a little more horizontal. Biggest fish on one is mid-sevens in the fall, sitting on the bottom while I was fiddling with the TM battery. Had pulled a few fish out of that spot, but the big one was having none of it. 

What I haven't done is any testing to see if I can pull a fish when a regular senko has been through there - ie does it really do anything different enough to matter on a weightless presentation. 

 

Partly on my mind is has a keitech fat replaced this as a better bait for a swimming presentation.