What is your favorite soft plastic for summer time?

[DMac]

Not sure I follow this. I work the Senko both weightless and with a weight depending on which they prefer that day.

Stick worms are normally fished weightless or nearly so, to exploit their lazy shimmy during a natural freefall.

The more weight added to a senko, the more its natural charm is destroyed,

and with enough weight the senko begins to resemble a stickpen that fell out of your vest pocket.

When a "weighted" worm is used, most anglers tend to move to an action-tail worm

like a Berkley Powerbait, Anaconda or Culprit.

Roger

When I use a senko in the summertime it is normally when the sun is highest and the fish have moved back into or next to cover. I pitch the senko around the cover and basically pick it apart. So I'm covering water without wasting to much time.

[rubba bubba]

Stick worms are normally fished weightless or nearly so, to exploit their lazy shimmy during a natural freefall.

The more weight added to a senko, the more its natural charm is destroyed,

and with enough weight the senko begins to resemble a stickpen that fell out of your vest pocket.

When a "weighted" worm is used, most anglers tend to move to an action-tail worm

like a Berkley Powerbait, Anaconda or Culprit.

Roger

I agree with this, my point is that even with a weight the Senko outperforms a regular worm, imo. Your experience appears to be different which is fine, but for the same size worm (6" or less), my experience has been that the "stick pen" behavior out performs the ribbon tail behavior. The bigger worms (Anaconda, Power Worm) are a different story.

So straight up the Senko outperforms in an apples to apples, plus you get the flexibility of being able to go weightless. To me, that makes it my favorite summer lure. Again, just my opinion.

[cart7t]

I'm prefishing for a T tomorrow.  I'll have tied on

10" Anaconda rigged with a swimming hook

C rig - Space Monkey

5" swimbait

6" worm on a shakey head

Some sort of craw on a jig on my flippin stick

A 4" senko to drop by docks.

[fathom]

zoom ole monster.

tough to beat here.

[Wayne P.]

I don't have a favorite, but everywhere I fish, the bass's favorite is a wacky rigged Zoom Finesse worm. The Zoom Trick worm is a close second, rigged the same.

[The_Natural]

When just doing my normal creek fishing I always go with Zoom mini lizards.

Not to get off topic, but those Zoom 4" lizards are just dynamite on a C-rig.  Anyway...the only thing I do different in the summer is add a 10-12" worm to the arsenal.  

[NasTMcfingas]

Fat Ika and Senko.

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[BigJohnny]

Zoom super flukes. I'm not even sure why I own any other lures/baits. I probably catch 95% of my fish on these.

[Big Tom]

Zoom Ol' Monster - Any color green or brown.

Zoom Big Dead Ringer - Pumpkin Chartreuse

Zoom Brush Hog and Baby Brush Hog - Pumpkin or Watermelon Red

Berkley Power Lizard - Pumpkin

Bass Pro Shops Tender Tube - Melon Pepper

and recently I have started getting into the Roboworms.  Awesome little bait there.

[Catt]

Plastic Worms

In my opinion, stick worms like the Senko are not the best choice of worm during the summer.

Stick worms are normally fished with a vertical freefall, which can be very time consuming.

Due to the higher water temperatures, bass metabolism and bass activity is at its peak during the summer.

Plastic worms like the Gambler Ribbontail, Strike King Anaconda or Berkley Power Worm

would provide faster coverage and likely encounter more bass during July and August.

Roger

T for Texas

[steezy]

T-rig'ed Black Worm

Its like holding candy in front of a kid!  They just can't resist.  I almost feel sorry for the Bass.

[eyedabassman]

I would say mine are the Senko,Baby Paca Craw or the Paca Craw on a T-rig,  Zoom french fry,Zoom Mini lizard on a drop shot and big worms at night!

[Daiwa]

Gulp 7" and 4" green pumpkin turtleback works. The tail on them is awsome. On any hook, and a slow jerk, pause retreive, you are sure to catch fish.

[CODbasser]

drop shot rigged robo worm...shakey head with several diff worms...pointer 78, fluke in baby bass or baitfish, really depends on when and where im fishing...

[diver_sniper]

I'm surprised I read all these answers and didn't see my favorite on anyone's list.  Without having to even think about it I'll say a T-rigged tube craw in any shade of green.  I refer to it as my "cheat codes", because on a lot of days it feels like playing video games with the cheat codes on