Every other week or so, George Welcome posts results of some of his outing. Huge numbers and some real toads. One of the baits/lures that contributes to his client's success is the GYCB Swimming Senko. I'm surprised that we see so little on this bait. During the spring and summer this has been a good producer for me.

Most of my most successful outings with the Swimming Senko is in grass. Although many people have good luck fishing the lure weightless, I fish it weighted as suggested by Gary Yamamoto:

http://www.insideline.net/articles/swim_senko.html

Give it a try, I think you will be pleasantly surprised!

p.s. Here's a related article:

http://www.imaginationbassin.com/Crawfordswimming_senko.htm

8-)

thanks for info. i caught a few fishing it weightless. ill give the 1/4 ounce a try.

Thanks for the article. I have wanted to try the Swimming Senko. I usually dead stick the regular Senko's but lately I wanted to try something with a little more action. I think the Swimming Senko fits the bill.

I like fishing the swimming senko on a c rig. I have caught a lot of fish by doing this on wind blown points. I tend to fish it a little faster than I normally would.

Fished it (watermelon/red) side by side a friend who was throwing bandit 200 cranks.  Had it on 15lb berkley trilene flouro and MH F rod, a 1/8oz screw in bullet, and a 5/0 EWG gami.  I either let it sink to the bottom and then started a steady retrieve or I counted it down for a few seconds before starting my retrieve.

My friend really out fished me that evening.  I think it was because the grass hadn't really grown in thickly where we were fishing (offshore humps) and I expect this bait is much better suited to fishing through weeds rather than open water.  Just hard to beat a crankbaits wobble.

A week and a half later with a lot more weed cover, the bait performed much better.  I think it's a less obnoxious spinnerbait when wanting to fish quickly through cover.  It open water/weed edge situations, I'm still doing better with crankbaits.  Many more comparisons to be done in the future, so far so good.

I have good luck using these weightless and with the screw in bullet weight.

The Swim Senko has been a great bait for me, both weighted and weightless. I use a regular bullet weight pegged with a bobber stopper.

It works very well just casting it out, counting it down, and swimming slowly back.

It also works very well fished like a T-rigged worm, bouncing it off the bottom.

My secret, go to, rig is glueing a Swim Senko on an Evolution Shakey jighead. The one with the post, keel, and no weedguard. I superglue the bait on the post, and just swim it. That jighead, with the keel on the bottom, gives an extra dimension of action to the bait. Deadly! This also works nicely bounced on the bottom.

One thing I really like about it is it's tougher than the regular Senko. Lathered up with MegaStike so it can slide easily in the fish's mouth, you can catch 4 or more fish with one bait. Make sure you lather up the weight or jighead too. It makes it slide through the weeds that much better.

Cheers,

GK

I caught my PB so far on a swim senko.I fish it weightless most ofthe time.

 I've also had some luck tossing it up on top of mats and "buzing" the tail across the tops till I reach the edge.Then kill it and let it sink.If they don't hit on the retrieve they'll hit it on the fall.

Ive done well texas rigging and dragging on bottom.

Weightless, on a texposed 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG keeps it in the top of the water column and over the snot.   Deadly in the lilypads.