I have been reading a lot of posts where you guys are throwing a wacky 4" Senko for a tough bite. Any favorite "standby" colors?

Watermelon flake or junebug

I usually carry a variety of colors; from lighter colors to black. You never know what can really get them going, but this size has accounted for a lot of big smallies for me over the years. Not as productive as the 5" wacky rigged, but close. Also wacky rig the 3" on a drop shot. Sometimes that can be good. And don't forget about slip floating!

GYCB in straight watermelon or watermelon w black flake or ( fading watermelon )

GYCB in straight watermelon or watermelon w black flake or ( fading watermelon )

 

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And I'll add #297 & # 912 - I simply have no choice.

 

A-Jay

My 2 main colors are 231 and 330

GP with green and purple flake. Man that is a killer color! I think it is 301? 

Before the 6.0 lb. smallie in my avatar pic had her photo op she had a wacky rigged 4" Senko in her mouth. Color #297. #194 works well too.

208, 305, and 330

My best color has been watermellon magic. It's a smoke fest with this color tied on.

The color Iv always found that works for me when no other color would is the BPS brand senko. "Crawberry"

Green pumpkin or baby bass

I like black with blue flake. I'm excited to try the pearl white this year.

Green Pumpkin with any kind of flake in clear water or high skies, black/red shad laminate in lower light conditions.

Junebug & Green pumpkin for me.

I keep Zoom Fish Doctors and Centipedes in my bag burried at the bottom. They're my last ditch shot before I come up skunked.

Fish Doctors and Centipedes are 4" and I like them Texas rigged or wacky depending on cover and almost always weightless. I believe mine are green pumpkin and junebug.

Once summer gets here and the submergent grass gets up, I am going to try them on a mojo rig. Some like them on a Carolina rig.

Smoke Pearl Blue is my favorite Senko color, followed by Watermelon w/black flake and Junebug.

I don't know the number or whatever, but the Yamamoto ones in blue always worked for me. Also BPS sticko's in bubblegum pink work good for me.

Mostly watermelon magic, watermelon gold-flake 

are hot colors for me.

Green Pumpkin , Junebug and/or Pearl

 

Mike

The Color Lineup for GYB Senko's is simply amazing, I find it very hard to pick colors when ordering worms from their site since they make some colors that are not made by anyone else.

 

In a perfect world I would have a pack in every size in about 4 dozen colors, but overall I would say I throw the Natural Shad and Smokes in clear water and I also love the Smokes with blue and other metallic flakes, but I also do well with the Watermelon/Pearl laminate and the Purple With Emerald Flake...

 

A 4" Senko is the perfect size if you are looking for strikes & even though I prefer to use larger sizes most of the time, I always have a spinning rod with a 4" wacky rigged senko, or 3" on a drop shot because they catch fish even if Panfish also love the smaller senko's.

I found color in stick baits makes no difference.

 

Fish what gives you confidence

If you haven't tried it, a 4" stickworm on a shakyhead is a killer. I catch some of my biggest smallmouth of the year every year on that setup.