I’ve heard of some guys pegging a light 1/16oz weight with their senkos. What advantage does this give you? Wouldn’t the senko fall nose down?

21 minutes ago, Jcj90 said:

I’ve heard of some guys pegging a light 1/16oz weight with their senkos. What advantage does this give you? Wouldn’t the senko fall nose down?

Advantage? Ummm, yea they fall nose down unless you rig them the other way and then I guess they fall tail down. I have fished them with 1/8. 3/16, 1/4, and 3/8 oz weights.

 

Not sure what you are asking.

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That’s a Neko rig. You can Neko rig a lot of soft plastics, such as the Daiwa/GYBC Neko Macho or XZone True Center Stick. 

I’ve fished senkos  Texas rigged and used a bullet weight used to get a little more casting distance or help it sink. Sometimes when I cast into the Lilly pad or grass trying to hit the one open spot, weightless doesn’t want to pull  the line across the Lilly pads and sink. I try to use the lightest sinker possible. I like the perfect worm hook sold by pass pro, no pegging. I guess you could

 use it wacky rigged to with a weighted hook. 

Works great.  Just cast it, let it sink to the bottom, and pop it a little.   

6 minutes ago, FishTank said:

Works great.  Just cast it, let it sink to the bottom, and pop it a little.   

Do you peg it?

The reasons I use a screw in weight.....For pitching where I want a direct to the bottom fall like bed fishing, for punching through vegetation, a very small nose weight to counter tide pull....I did this a lot in Florida on the St. John’s river where there were strong tides.  You can actually get a vertical fall weighted in the tide pull. And finally I put a Senko on a 1/4 oz football head jig to drag on lake st Clair.  The football head makes the Senko “walk” on the sandy bottom giving it a totally different action.  Since I did an article for Yamamoto and came up with 78 ways to rig a 5 inch Senko, I have a lot of other weighted presentations but the ones above are the main ones.  

I think you would peg it in heavy weed growth otherwise just let the weight slide freely on your line.

1 hour ago, Jcj90 said:

Do you peg it?

Yes and no

Docks, cover, punching yes

Open water no

3 hours ago, Jcj90 said:

Do you peg it?

 

This is the type I use when I peg the bait.  It just screws in.  I do like this technique but prefer a  standard T-Rig setup with a regular bullet weight and a 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG.