Getting The Most Bites

[Green Trout]

I find if you just want to get as many bites as you can, Texas Rig a 4 inch Senko weightless. If the fish are on the bottom, just add a bullet weight. You could really have 3/0 hooks, 1/4oz and 3/8 oz bullet weights, and take only that and catch as many fish as you would like. Anyone else find this?

[Catt]

For numbers it's hard to beat a Wacky Rig

[long island basser]

I find if you just want to get as many bites as you can, Texas Rig a 4 inch Senko weightless. If the fish are on the bottom, just add a bullet weight. You could really have 3/0 hooks, 1/4oz and 3/8 oz bullet weights, and take only that and catch as many fish as you would like. Anyone else find this?

I would agree with this 100 percent. I do believe this is the greatest bass catching machine in the world.

But if I don't throw some spinnerbaits, cranks and jigs I think I'd lose my mind.

[ABW]

I'll also agree. One day I wasn't catching anything so I threw on a 4" weightless senko. It was a struggle with baitcasting gear, but I still caught 8 fish in the range from dinks to 2 and 3 lbers

[smalljaw67]

I find if you just want to get as many bites as you can, Texas Rig a 4 inch Senko weightless. If the fish are on the bottom, just add a bullet weight. You could really have 3/0 hooks, 1/4oz and 3/8 oz bullet weights, and take only that and catch as many fish as you would like. Anyone else find this?

 

That is what finesse fishing basically is, so we have wacky rigs and shaky heads along with drop shots, pick what you use based on the area but what you are saying isn't new but there are times when that just isn't good to do. Try doing that during the post spawn period on a decent size body of water, fish are really spread out during that 2 to 3 week period after spawning andyou will need to cover a lot of water to get some bites. If you apply that technique you may end up with a goose egg, but there are definitely times when that kind of fishing is the best way to get bites but not all the time.  

[Texas Pride]

I was doing it yesterday in the shallows caching them on a weightless texas rig but they were all to small to even keep

[Bluebasser86]

Last week they wouldn't touch a 4" Senko weightless, but they were all over a 7" glide bait. There is no surefire trick to getting the most bites.

[BassinLou]

I find if you just want to get as many bites as you can, Texas Rig a 4 inch Senko weightless. If the fish are on the bottom, just add a bullet weight. You could really have 3/0 hooks, 1/4oz and 3/8 oz bullet weights, and take only that and catch as many fish as you would like. Anyone else find this?

 

A weightless senko/stickworm will catch you fish. For bottom contact I recommend using the least amount weight possible. For ex: I only throw my stickworms either with a 1/32 oz or 1/16 oz. An 1/8oz starts to become way too heavy. Just a thought.  

[scaleface]

Some lakes , for me anyhow , the slow presentations are not as effective as they once were. Ive caught a lot more fish the past several years on faster presentations. I'm a Texas rig junkie too .

[Senko lover]

Yup, wacky or T-rigged, for numbers it's hard to beat a senko. 

[RSM789]

Last week they wouldn't touch a 4" Senko weightless, but they were all over a 7" glide bait. There is no surefire trick to getting the most bites.

 

Exactly.  When I went out this past Thursday, a T-rigged 4" Roboworm out fished a wacky rigged 4" Senko by a ratio of 8:1.  That was an oddity, normally the ratio is closer to even, but the conditions that day dictated that the fish were striking an extremely slim lure as it dove towards the bottom (as opposed to fluttering down).  It is a struggle for me often to not try to force the fish to hit what I think they should hit, but I catch a lot more if I just let them tell you what they want & how they want it.

 

That said, there are more days than not when a 4" Senko rigged wacky style will load the boat, once the sun comes up & positions the fish in the shadows.

[rippin-lips]

I couldn't get bit on a weightless t rigged senko the other day but then I switched to a Mustad hook, and it was like I flipped a light switch.

[Green Trout]

I couldn't get bit on a weightless t rigged senko the other day but then I switched to a Mustad hook, and it was like I flipped a light switch.

Dude that is so insulting. Please quit about Mustad.