Senkos, Texas or Wacky???

[BassinSoldier]

  I have been fishin Senkos texas rigged with no weight but have yet to fish them wacky style.  Which produces best for you guys, and as far as the wacky rig what do you use and how to rig yours??

[KU_Bassmaster.]

To rig them :  I use Gamakatsu wide gap finesse hooks, they also have a weedless hook I use when fishing around some heavy grass.

I seemed to catch quantity wacky rigging and qaulity t-rigging them.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

You're really not using the senko to it's full potential if it's not wacky rigged IMO.

[Nick_Barr]

When the fish are more active i wacky rig them, When they are in a negative mood or mid-day i t rig them.

[dodgeguy]

i've never caught a fish on a wacky rigged senko.i've caught hundreds of them on weightless t-rigged senkos.

[Shad_Master]

You're really not using the senko to it's full potential if it's not wacky rigged IMO.

It really depends on the water.  Here in the mid-west, wacky rigs will get snagged very easily, but T-rigs work well along the weed lines or in the brush piles.

[basspro48]

I love skipping t-rigged and wacky rigged senkos under docks and trees, I have found that the t-rig seems to work better when the bass are active and the wacky rig works under tougher conditions.

Hope this helps.

[bassdocktor]

Seems to be the wacky rig for me too. However, I haven't spent enough time with either one really but I have notice when I get one texas rigged it always seems to be a little bit bigger. I've also noticed that if you use the strike king 3x zero it seems to skip the best. I've compared it to several other brands and it just seems to be the easiest to get to glide on the surface of the water. My guess is the extra buoyancy that the 3x's have.

bassdocktor

[Shad_Master]

bassdoktor, that's something I hadn't considered about the 3X's.  If that is the case, there might be a reason to pick some of these up out of the bargin bin

[bassdocktor]

Yeah I really don't know what it is except like I said maybe the extra bouyancy of the 3x's. Plus the one advantage too is that they will stay on longer. If you loose one it isn't that bad given how cheap you can get them on sale. Usually when I skip the 3x's I've been using a red Eagle Claw in a #1 size. It's been working just fine for the zeros. The bargin bin is how I found them.

bassdocktor

[basser89]

I just started fishing with the wacky rig late this summer. What I've did this year was use Wave Worm's Tiki Bam Boo stiks (t-rigged) in the spring. Worked them around heavy cover on my flippin stick and caught some nice fish doing this. Like I said, it wasn't until late summer (I stopped catchin bass out of this small pond I hit from time to time) that I tried the wacky rig (with Kinami Flash) and it produced when nothing else was. The largest one I caught out of that pond was about 3#. I guess this goes hand in hand with what basspro was saying, when the bass are active, use the t-rig. When the conditions are tougher, use the wacky rig.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Had to go back and check the excel spreadsheet but I had 21 fish over 4lbs on a wacky rigged senko for '05.  That was 27% of all my lunkers (3.5lbs+)

[Dirk_Jig-lure]

Wacky rig allllll day long.

Like LBH said, if it's not wacky rigged, you are not maximizing it's potential.  Horizontal drop, both ends quivering,...gives me the jimmies just thinking about it,lol.

[Lightninrod]

I've been throwing them wacky-rigged much more than T-rigged.

As for hooks, I use this Gammy in the 3/0 size. As for snagging a w/r, that doesn't happen very often for me and I fish in a very 'snaggy' places most of the time. Btw, that's not a "Senko" but it's similar and better in some ways IMO.

Dan

[5bass]

I throw them wacky rigged almost all the time.The exception is when I want to fish it IN a laydown tree,then I will T rig it.That will probably change when I finally get my hands on the weedless wide gap finesse Gamakatsu's like KU was talking about.They were backordered last time I ordered them from BPS. >  

[senko_77]

i think they both work the same, its just a confidence thing.  if you have thrown t-rig the whole time, you look negativly toward wacky, if you have thrown wacky, you look negativly toward t-rig

[BassinSoldier]

 Thanks for all the input guys.  I am gonna try the wacky rig next time I go out.  Most of the fish on these lakes at Ft. Campbell have seen a million and a half lures thrown at them so I think it will work pretty well.

[Siebert Outdoors]

texas rigged no weight is the only way I fish them

[405z06]

I have a different technique that I use. I Texas rig it, hookwise, but use a small slip-shot about 10 inches above the top of the bait. I like to fish brushpiles at Lake of the Ozarks this way and it has replaced where I in the past used a traditional Texas-rigged plastic worm or lizard. The only time I use a Senko without a weight is either in very shallow water, or in and around weeds/vegetation.

[kbj3579]

I know everyone says to use the Senko Wacky and weightless.  I love fishing t-rigged plastics, and I can fish very slow.  But I have a hard time fishing the senko wacky weightless.  I don't know, guess it's a feel thing for me, cause I can't feel anything.  I have had some recent success(actually the first time I ever tried it) T-rigging the Senko with a 1/8 oz. bullet sinker.  Worked two days straight for some quality fish.  Maybe it was just what they wanted then.  Right speed and all.  Don't know, but I plan on testing it again this weekend.  There is no question the wacky senko weightless catches fish, especially IMO when they are suspended under docks.  

[roadwarrior]

I have been fishing Senkos for about seven years. I have fished them every way I know of, every method I have ever read about. I consider the Senko a "magic bait" although not quite as magical as they were a few years ago. My experience has led me to fish the 6" version, weightless and Tex-posed. (Doesn't  T-rigged technically include a weight?). Anyhow, I fish all of the GYCB products and understand most if not all of the many ways to fish them, but for me, I generally fish each bait with a specific rigging. Most of my biggest largemouth bass have been caught on 6" Senkos, weightless and weedless. That's how I fish them and that's how I will be fishing them in the future.

[Triton_Mike]

Like my roadwarrior friend I have been a senko fan for quite a while.  I like to Texas Rig them and when they tear on one end I'll Texas rig the other end.  WHen they are torn on both ends I'll stab it in the middle and Wacky it.  .  

T Mike

[George Welcome]

Senko? Who ever heard of a Senko? I call them fishcatchers cause that's what they do. T-rigged with or without weight - wacky rigged - soft jerk bait - c-rigged - you name it they produce. You can try to duplicate it, and you can try to replace it, but in the end you will be back to it because it does the job. By the way: don't get caught in the do-nothing hype - this bait is as versatile as your imagination will allow it to be. As Mr. B; , and RW say - it's the bait that "gits er done"!