I have been reading on this website for sometime now.I live in the west(Colorado).I do a lot of bass and catfishing but mostly bass.And i read alot about a senko lure.Could somebody please post a picture of the famos senko lure.

Check them out at
http://yamamoto.baits.com/cgi-bin/order/scan/co=yes/sf=category/se=soft/sf=description/se=senko?uuhHJXa3;;256

Order yourself some as well...they are good.
-- Josh

Hey Big_Worm! How they rigged?Carolina,texas?I guess what i'm saying what is the bast way to fish this cool looking bait?Or should i say how to you veterans fish them?

The best way is texas style but weightless. This chunk of plastic has a really wild action. Try it out they catch fish(period)

What is the best size hook to use,also do they work good when when fishing in thick cover?

Greg,
There is literally no wrong way to rig a Senko. The fish just chew 'em! The most common way is to use the 5" model with a 2/0 or 3/0 extra wide gap Gamakatsu hook. Run the hook thru the head of the senko exiting out the side about a half inch below the top. then punch the hook point all the way thru the bait but then bury only the hook point into the "skin" of the bait. The Senko should be straight as a pencil when rigged properly.
Cast it out and do NOTHING to give it action. Just dead stick it as it sinks. Most of your strikes will come on the sink.

Here's a link to the Yamamoto Senko tips page from Inside Line. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Senko.
http://www.insideline.net/articles/tips.senko.html

Enjoy!

Thanks Chris,I think this will be a big change for me since i like to crank'em and spinner bait fishing is the most common for me i'm not much of a wormer but i'm willing to try anything once!

If you are a spinnerbait fisher, you might like my favorite technique with them. I fish with the Spinnerbait until I get a miss, then I try to get the spinner out of the water and drop the Senko in near where I got the miss. I give it a twitch (sized depending on how far away I think the bass is, but usually small), when it first hits the water and deadstick it after that. The bite is usually just a weight on the line or it moves off sideways, if it's a decent sized bass. Medium sized fish usually make the line twitch then move off, and dinks will hammer them. Hope this helps. Although my usual sign off says "Tight lines," you may want to make sure you have about 6" of slack when fishing these.

Tight lines,
Wade

Hey Tight Line,Have you ever had any luck with the terminator spinner bait?

I really like them, but at the prices they want it hurts to open my wallet. Ouch!

Tight lines,
Wade

In the beginning i thought the samething but after fishing with them for a while it becomes second nature.And i have done fairly well with them.And i have just started fishing with the in-line terminator lure and it is AWESOME you should try them.

For a good alternative to Terminator spinnerbaits, get the titanium Wal-Mart FLW ones that are made by Terminator. These are the main blades I use, and they work! And they're only around 4 bucks a pop, cheaper than the regular Terminator ones. Just make sure to get the ones with the Terminator logo, as not all of the FLW spinnerbaits are made by them...

-odb

If you have the option, fish it wacky rigged. Even when I am throwing them on the delta I will try and throw them this way unless the weeds/trees/tullies/rocks are too bad. Fish it slow, very slow. I prefer the 7 inch senko's...but that there is your call.
-- Josh

Hey,Big_Worm does cabelas sell senko's?

I believe the catalogs (don't remember if it's Cabela's or BPS) sell the 'Kinami' version, which is essentially the same, but with different packaging. I've also seen them at Wal-Mart. However, I tend to stick with the original brand. (I think Kinami's are pretty much identical. I read on the 'Inside Line' website Forum that it's just some of the *colors* that are under one label or the other, but not necessarily available under both).

The 6-inchers have been working well for me lately -- and of course, most here know I'm partial, too, to that wacky-rig presentation!

Do you use a different hook for the Wacky rigging and do you nail weight them? w/ how much weight?

Tight lines,
Wade

Also how do they work just swimming the bait?

If you mean swimming them in as in realing it in slow the problem you will have is it will twist up, besides the action in the bait is in the way it falls.

Fish will hit it on the retrieve though, I've had that happen a couple times. I also use it kind of like a jerk bait and got bit that way too. Guess sometimes they'll just hit anything moving...

I most often use a 1/0 or 2/0 Owner J-hook on the 5 or 6-inchers, so I can switch immediately to a Texas-rig if necessary. Lately, I've been using a Gammie #2 split-shot hook, which is much more subtle, and apparently just as effective. It wouldn't work so well on the T-rig, though. It's a pretty small, thin-wire hook.

I rarely miss a hookset with that big 2/0 J-hook, though, so I still consider that my go-to setup. I jerk on it the instant I see that line pop or move to one side or the other.

Do you use a barrel swivel up the line f/ the hook to reduce line twist? If not, is line twist much of a problem? And, do you use the wacky rig all year, or is it mostly a seasonal thing?

I'm going to have to give this wacky rig thing a try one of these days.

I don't use any swivel or anything...just tie a hook straight on. The way I fish it, I don't get much twist in my line. This is probably because I am not casting a long ways with this bait, I fish it primarily in and around cover. Hooks with these can be interesting, I personally haven't been in one area long enough that the wacky rig was all I needed, so I would end up switching back and forth on how it was rigged, retying would take too long, so I just started throwing a wacky rig on an EWG hook. I haven't noticed any difference in the number of strikes, and the strike to hook-up ratio is high with a big exposed hook. Rarely will you see me with anything but a 5/o hook tied on with the senko.
I normally do not like throwing a wacky rig with anything under a 6" senko, I just don't have the patience to sit there and wait for it to sink, I prefer the 7" wacky rigged. The big benefit I see with the 7" is that the senko is heavy enough to pull the line down through cover, where as the smaller baits don't have the weight, so the bait ends up hanging up too often, and you won't get nearly as many strikes.

-- Josh