Lure Conditoning

[Muddy]

Hey Fellas: I was thinking about something that Catt said: the bass do not get conditioned to worms, that really seems to be true.

I was wondering if all the sucess with swim baits is because the bigger bass have been eating bigger fish and they never had hooks in them before

T Last season most of the folks on Mauch Chunk that I know were wacky rigging Senko type baits, their effectiveness declined. However the T rigged Senko baits and jigs was slaying them. I noticed this when me and Speedbead went out mid season.

It held true for the rest of the season.

Wake baits on top ( Jitter Bugs) seem to be as old as Long Mike and they always work also, swimbaits just seem like thier bigger brothers, I see them in my boat in the future.

 Just think how many times you were reeling in a fouled crankbait or Rapala type bait and it is waking across the top and you get a hit.

[Pigsticker]

IMO wacky rigging senkos work best in cold water or post cold front during the spawn. For all other times you will catch bigger fish T-Rigging a variety of plastics. I also think fish get conditioned to wacky rigged senko chucking more than any other plastic bait presentation.

I think WayneP. might come on and disagree with me but I know most of his success is with finesse and trickworms, great baits that are hard to condition bass with.

I think wacky rigging(senkos) is much different than other plastic rigs and is more of a reaction bite technique and that traditonal C-rigs/t-rigs do NOT condition bass or minimal at best.

[Tin]

If you were throwing senkos in lakes up here three year, you would catch ever fish in the lake. Now go try it... You will be beat destroyed by jig-fisherman in 9/10 lakes. Last year it was noticable that the senko bite was diminishing, this year that senko bite (texas or wacky rigged) is gone in all the lakes I fish. And I could not be happier...

There is still one lake though, but I have learned to love a 4" junebug senko.

[Pigsticker]

4-5 inch senkos, fish get conditoned to them. Bring out bigger stuff I love throwing an 11 inch trick worm........

[Tin]

4-5 inch senkos, fish get conditoned to them. Bring out bigger stuff I love throwing an 11 inch trick worm........

But if you have 95% of the guys throwing them non-stop, the fish will catch on eventually. The same thing has happened with spinnerbaits and lipless cranks up here on most RI lake, which is why I believe the chatterbaits  and jerkbaits are doing serious damage up here were the other 2 use to.