@Bass Rutten changed my life. In another thread, he posted a photo of a weightless Senko. I have always fished Senkos with bullet weights and when @JonB2 said he loves weightless worms too, I thought it would be perfect for my style of fishing, which is stealthy and often in close quarters. @FloridaFishinFool helped too by making me aware of solunar tables. The table said this morning would be great and it was.

I caught three bass on my first three casts and then lost the next two. Other than two bass on a white walking bait and one bass on a trolled craw, I caught every bass on a green pumpkin weightless Senko with a chartreuse tip. I pulled them from shoreline cover, a white pine laydown, from mid-pond grass, a couple rivers, lily pads, and a rock flat.

80 is the most I've ever caught in one trip in Maine. I had two 70-bass mornings in 2024. I could have caught 100 if I were younger and had fished another hour or two. Like @Lottabass, I left feeding bass because I was tired. Oh, to be young again, Al. Just think how many we could catch if we were!

Here are the first two bass I caught in the cut that runs through the bog to my dock. I was backing the canoe out the cut, so I had to swivel in my seat to cast:

I measured some of the early bass:

I didn't measure this one, but it was my biggest and my 70th bass:

This was my final bass, a thick smallie:

This was the only bass I caught trolling:

Here are two of five bass I caught from one laydown:

I have now caught 780 bass in 2026. I want to reach 1,000 by the end of June and 1,800 for the year. I have about two more weeks of hot fishing. Then it will slow for two months and pick up again in September and October.

Here are some of the other bass:

Excellent.

Well I'm happy to have played a small part in helping someone else catch some nice fish. Funny thing is I actually, for the most part, swore off using senkos about a decade ago because me and my fishing buddy were relying on them a little too much, and we'd joke that the senko is regressing all our other fishing skills. Maybe we were wrong?

Your trolling bass makes me smile…I also had brown bass with pads and weeds in the background today…looks weird, but 🤷‍♂️

Amazing morning!

48 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

Amazing morning!

It exhausted me. I caught more small bass than I normally do and when I hooked one, I was relieved because I didn't have to wrestle them. Some more of my bass:

6 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

@Bass Rutten changed my life. In another thread, he posted a photo of a weightless Senko. I have always fished Senkos with bullet weights and when @JonB2 said he loves weightless worms too, I thought it would be perfect for my style of fishing, which is stealthy and often in close quarters. @FloridaFishinFool helped too by making me aware of solunar tables. The table said this morning would be great and it was.

I caught three bass on my first three casts and then lost the next two. Other than two bass on a white walking bait and one bass on a trolled craw, I caught every bass on a green pumpkin weightless Senko with a chartreuse tip. I pulled them from shoreline cover, a white pine laydown, from mid-pond grass, a couple rivers, lily pads, and a rock flat.

80 is the most I've ever caught in one trip in Maine. I had two 70-bass mornings in 2024. I could have caught 100 if I were younger and had fished another hour or two. Like @Lottabass, I left feeding bass because I was tired. Oh, to be young again, Al. Just think how many we could catch if we were!

Here are the first two bass I caught in the cut that runs through the bog to my dock. I was backing the canoe out the cut, so I had to swivel in my seat to cast:

I measured some of the early bass:

I didn't measure this one, but it was my biggest and my 70th bass:

This was my final bass, a thick smallie:

This was the only bass I caught trolling:

Here are two of five bass I caught from one laydown:

I have now caught 780 bass in 2026. I want to reach 1,000 by the end of June and 1,800 for the year. I have about two more weeks of hot fishing. Then it will slow for two months and pick up again in September and October.

Here are some of the other bass:

That's by far my favorite color combination in 4 or 5 inch, Senko or Yum Dinger; preferably weightless, sometimes Neko rigged. What a day Swamp Girl, I bet everyone reading this is envious; I know I am.

40 minutes ago, Tackleholic said:

That's by far my favorite color combination in 4 or 5 inch, Senko or Yum Dinger; preferably weightless, sometimes Neko rigged.

The bass really seem to like that chartreuse tip. When I see it in the water and the tip is wildly waving as I twitch it, I almost want to bite it too!

41 minutes ago, Tackleholic said:

What a day Swamp Girl, I bet everyone reading this is envious; I know I am.

Thanks. However, turning 70 this August, I did feel the strain of that many bass. For example, I really struggled to unhook the last few I caught. I was just too tired to summon my skills.

When Bass Resource was down, I posted at a Maine Facebook bass fishing page and I'd report how many bass I caught. Some of the guys who replied seemed to doubt that I caught what I reported. There's no way I'd report that I caught 80 today.

4 hours ago, Bass Rutten said:

Funny thing is I actually, for the most part, swore off using senkos about a decade ago because me and my fishing buddy were relying on them a little too much, and we'd joke that the senko is regressing all our other fishing skills

Thats funny you say that, I've somewhat felt the same. Not that I "rely" on senkos too much, they just work so perfect on my small, slower river. If I want a lazy day of just catching bass; tossing a weightless, texas rigged senko is hard to beat.

7 hours ago, Swamp Girl said:

when @JonB2 said he loves weightless worms too

I LOVE jigs, but I've come to accept and often enjoy line-jumping with senkos. I have dingers for t-rigging as they're much lighter than senkos, but if I'm fishing weightless...only the original. I think your water color would be very conducive to purple-pearl with blue flake, which is my #1 color. You might hit 100 on that one!

20 minutes ago, JonB2 said:

You might hit 100 on that one!

Oh, I could have hit 100 today. I was just too tired to keep fishing. I decided I'd stop at 80 and I did. 5.5 hours with miles of paddling and fighting all those bass took me to Tuckered Town.

When I was young and perky, I had many 100-bass days in Michigan, Wisconsin, and northwestern Ontario. Sadly, that was half a century or so ago.

Thanks for sharing your great day. I’ve never gotten close to 100, but not had the opportunity yet either.

I got 10 today in 2.5 hours. Not sure what they really wanted, but I force fed them a bladed jig and then a swim jig as that’s what I wanted to learn.

Every time I've tied a Senko on its been weightless on a T rig or a wacky rig. My thought process with it is that its a heavy lure on its own, so I've never really saw a need to put a weight on it.