1 hour ago, J Francho said:

Caught 6 bass on the same senko Monday. 

You should write Yamamoto and see if that is some kind of record ? Maybe they’ll send you a free pack of Senkos for your nice letter - lol. 

It's not really a stretch. They were all decent fish that completely ate it. It's the little doinkers that ruin the baits. Smallmouth are ruiners too. 

Yeah, just some Yammi stick poking - lol. The little smallmouth head shakers are a killer with it. I stopped buying them after a couple of those river smallie trips about 20 years ago where you go through 2-3 bags a tourney. 

In my week of fishing on St Clair, I filled the cup holder with an assortment of plastics that I used for Ned, dropshotting, Senkos and I only replenished it twice with partial color changes all week.  

This thread reminded me that I need to super glue a Missle 48 that's starting to tear after a dozen or so bass from this afternoon. Shrink  wrap really helps when wacky worming. I try to set baits aside before they go flying into the water. Better yet, I mostly use elaztech. I just happen to have a lot of plastisol baits laying around.

If I have a creature style bait, I replace it as soon as I lose a kicker.  I know there are a lot of one clawed craws, but personally I can't stand it. 

 

Fun fishing, I'll make a plastic last until it no longer sits on the hook right, or it looks like it's to tear up completely.  In a tournament situation it's every fish, or when the hook point becomes exposed and starts snagging vegetation.  The exception is during a really hot bite.  I'll give a quick visual and if it seems ok it's right back in.  

I buy empirically proven soft baits in bulk so I never worry about trying to "stretch" the useful life of soft baits.  Life is too short to introduce additional, self-inflicted variables.

I definitely stretch them these days.  Back when all the tackle shops had an abundance of clearance soft baits....not so much.