I fished them for the first time last friday evening. I met a friend at the ramp, just happened to have two rods in the car, one with the swimming senko and the other with a Slammer. I was fishing the SS either weightless or with a weighted wide gap hook. The tail kicks so much that the head will kick in the opposite direction. So that's the reason lots of guys are using the small florida weight to stablize the head. The weighted wide gap hook worked great in areas where we were not fishing the grass. The weight acted as a keel to keep the bait tracking. I used the weightless verision over the top of the grass. Since this was the only soft plastic bait I had in the car i fished it for 5 hours. Everything was feel because of the dark, most of the time i was using a "worming" type retrieve. Caught a bunch of fish nothing big. Im fishing a tourney on saturday and will definitely have it rigged.

Now for the Slammer story....my friend is not a swimbait guy, so i wanted to stick a swimbait fish in his boat. Well....i made the 8 iron cast when i should have used a wedge and stuck the Slammer in a tree....wayyyyyyy up in the tree....its dark and Duke had a boat hook, but we could not get to the limb....between pulling the closest limb with the boat hook and pulling on the line, we never got there and the line broke....another reason i threw the SS for 5 hours. So saturday morning i headed down the lake with my extending tree pruning saw. Saw a buddy of mine on the lake..."hey what's up with the saw"...."don't ask".....got to the tree, found my old line...pulled on it...found the bait, extended the saw and dropped the limb on the deck with the bait still stuck to it!!!!!!