My boys and I are mostly shore fishermen and everything we use has to fit in a tackle backpack. Putting together a Plano box for each of us for Wacky worm fishing. Have room for 5 possibly seven colors in the box along with O rings, and assorted hooks and so far I know these four colors are solid day in day out choices in the lakes within 40-50 miles of my home:

*Watermelon Red Flake

*Green Pumpkin Blue Flake

*Blue-Black Metal Flake

*Bubble Gun Magic

Anyone know of two or three more colors I should add?

Green Pumpkin Gold Flake

My favorite anywhere and everywhere is black with blue flake and a blue tail. It's color 523 in a senko. Another is 927, Smoke Blue Hologram Silver Laminate. One more, Smoke Black Blue Chart flake.

I think the colors you already have can do it all. As a primarily plastics fisherman I always carry with me a spike it pen in chartreuse, with it you can color just the tip of the worm to add a bit of attraction or visibility, you can color the underbelly to give it the laminate like effect of dark back/light belly, I use it a lot, plus it adds some garlic flavor to ward off vampire fish lol

You can do a lot with green pumpkin + spike it markers!

27 minutes ago, Bass Rutten said:

I think the colors you already have can do it all. As a primarily plastics fisherman I always carry with me a spike it pen in chartreuse, with it you can color just the tip of the worm to add a bit of attraction or visibility, you can color the underbelly to give it the laminate like effect of dark back/light belly, I use it a lot, plus it adds some garlic flavor to ward off vampire fish lol

I have those pens in both colors along with the liquid dip in every tackle box, my fishing vest and all tackle BPs. I know beyond all doubt adding orange and chartreuse to my lurers to mimic panfish or craw fish have helped me catch a lot more fish.

Purple of some sort. I don't throw gp much with senkos; I bought a pack last season, and its still kicking with atleast half left. Some of the ones "used" were halved for jig trailers. I'm not big on wacky rigging either; texas rig for me.

15 minutes ago, JonB2 said:

I'm not big on wacky rigging either; texas rig for me.

Thanks for the color suggestion. I have had good success using purple collared worms.

Are you T-rigging the wacky worms in the center to get both haves to still flap as it falls? Otherwise it's not behaving like a wacky worm.

Thanks to all. Will assemble the Wacky kits with the colors I listed along with a purple worm and my Black/Blue-metal flake worms already have a blue tipped tail.

Again thanks to all for the replies.

Jackal Flick Shake in a color called Cola is one of my top 3.

Allen

5 hours ago, CDMTJager said:

Thanks for the color suggestion. I have had good success using purple collared worms.

Are you T-rigging the wacky worms in the center to get both haves to still flap as it falls? Otherwise it's not behaving like a wacky worm.

Thanks to all. Will assemble the Wacky kits with the colors I listed along with a purple worm and my Black/Blue-metal flake worms already have a blue tipped tail.

Again thanks to all for the replies.

No, I almost never wacky rig...not my preference. It doesn't need to "behave" like anything, it just needs to appeal to bass, which texas rigged weightless absolutely does. Don't limit yourself, you'll catch less fish.

Only thing I would add is something more translucent. I’ve seen a lot of times when the bite turns off that shifting to a salt and pepper or similar clear color will be the only thing that gets bit.

If I could only take 3 senko colors with me I would choose

black/blu flake

Green Pumpkin/blk flake

and finally watermelon seed.

Where I live I feel so confident in black/blue that I bought a 100 pack of Yum Dingers off Amazon and I have less than half left. I would probably say green pumpkin/black flake is a good alternative for clearer water.

The color that incorporates the Greens, Blues and Purples (pretty much works in any water clarity/stain) is Yum Dinger "Elder's Magic." It's a killer color, the picture doesn't do it justice. As stated above by JonB2 and CDMTJagr, the subtle mixture of Purple is the secret sauce ~

Watermelon slice laminate. Works great and they're always under $5 a pack on Amazon.

4 hours ago, JonB2 said:

No, I almost never wacky rig...not my preference. It doesn't need to "behave" like anything, it just needs to appeal to bass, which texas rigged weightless absolutely does. Don't limit yourself, you'll catch less fish.

I agree, the weightless Texas rigged senko is deadly and allows you a truly weedless option which can be huge when fishing from the bank. You don’t have as much real estate and need to target fish in cover at times where a traditional wacky rig would get hung up.

Junebug, watermelon red and chartreuse pepper are good ones in my area.

When GY invented the Senko, he had in mind a slugo or fluke type bait. So if you were to add a dual tone minnow pattern, you could work it in that way and have a much different presentation.