Jack M

I hate to burst y’alls bubble but listen to the first 30 seconds of this video lol A senko on a barely weighted hook looks KILLER, still falls pretty slow with a great shimmy, but is much more versatile. It’s almost like a way to have a senko and fluke tied on at the same time, and the weight even adds an ever-so-slight swimming/glide bait action on a crawling retrieve. You can do almost anything with it, even rip it across top. The beauty is you can do a hundred different techniques with it, and when you get bit it’s a hint to what the fish are keying in on, and then you can adjust your rigging or lure selection accordingly. If they’re eating it shallow on the fall, then maybe I’ll tie one on weightless, but if they’re eating it while I rip it across the top I might switch to a walking style bait. This all might sound silly to you guys who have 10 rods pre rigged and a dozen tackle boxes in your boat, but for me as bank fisherman, versatility and multi-purpose techniques are EXTREMELY important. It’s a great do-nothing bait but don’t let that overshadow that it CAN do anything! A few other things that work great using a senko: -split the tail in two with scissors and now you have a great spinnerbait/chatterbait/scrounger trailer -screw lock from the senko to a swivel then screw lock from the swivel to a paddle tail, now you have a super weedless whopper plopper -fish it like a jerk bait/fluke, the wobbling action on the pauses is DEADLY. You can do this at any depth, depending on how long you let it sink after the cast and in the pauses