Weightless Senko observations.

[Dakotabowhunter]

On a recent fishing trip my partner and I tried several different brands of Senko baits to fish docks. We ended up catching 40-50 fish on the day about half on Senko style baits. We fished actual Senkos, BPS Sticko, Yum dinger, Berkley Generals and Berkley Sluggo's all Texas rigged. At the end of the day fish were caught on every bait except the Yum Dingers. All were fished weightless, I noticed that the Yum Dinger was by far the slowest sinking bait that we used that day. The other baits all sank out of sight and to the bottom in a few seconds. The Dingers took quite a while to sink till out of sight. Most of the docks were only in 4-5 feet of water. So I guess either the fish wanted a faster fall or didn't like something about the Dingers. At one time I fished a Green  Dinger for about twenty minutes without a bite, replaced the dinger with a General and caught a fish two casts later.  Next outing I guess I'll try fishing the Dingers on a weighted Texas rig and see how they do. 

[gunsinger]

The dingers do fall slow.  I only throw then non-weighted wacky over weed beds. Weighted wacky just gets buried in the slop.  I’ve had good success lately on the strike king stick bait, weighted TR. 

[bp_fowler]

50 minutes ago, gunsinger said:

The dingers do fall slow.  I only throw then non-weighted wacky over weed beds. Weighted wacky just gets buried in the slop.  I’ve had good success lately on the strike king stick bait, weighted TR. 

 
I pretty much only throw senkos and senko knockoffs weightless Tex rigged.  Catches just as many for me as the traditional weightless wacky but seems to get hung up a lot less.

[gim]

9 hours ago, Dakotabowhunter said:

The Dingers took quite a while to sink till out of sight. Most of the docks were only in 4-5 feet of water.

The docks I fish are rarely that deep underneath. Part of the issue is that we are in a drought. But even without that, it would normally only be a couple feet or less.

 

You could try sticking a nail weight into the fat end of the stick bait. That makes one end fall faster. I don’t normally do it around docks, but you certainly could.

[Bird]

I throw mainly Yamamoto but also really like Zinkerz.

Plenty on this forum like the Dingers.

[BrianMDTX]

Sometimes Senkos works best. Sometimes it’s Dingers. Ain’t up to me. It’s up to the bass! ?