Has anyone tried these yet? I'm looking at them and I just can't quite grasp how this will be good. To me the beauty of a senko is the wiggle on the fall. To me the beauty of a swimbait is the swimming action on the retrieve. How these two baits can combine in to something good is perplexing to my brain :) Opinions?

Fish them on a darter head or a round ball head, something light. The weightless thing is odd but it works. I haven't done great with them yet, but they seem to work. Shoot me an email...

I think it was a bad idea on their part.

Most of the people I've talked with about senkos fish them wacky rigged, and this new "swimming senko" is going to turn off all of those fishermen/ potential customers.

Personally, I don't catch crap on wacky rigged senkos, but T-rigged weightless = easy limits; to much pressure i guess. 99.9% of my fish DON'T come on the sink.

Anyways, back to the new senko. I don't plan on buying any. Not because they won't catch fish, all baits have the potential.

That's just my opinion because I fish some tough lakes and if I want to throw a senko, then I'll probably throw a senko. And, if I want to fish a swimbait, I'm not planning on throwing a worm with a boot tail; I'll be throwing something that at least resembles a baitfish.

You'll probably get more strikes fishing it in heavy weeds, tulees, pads etc... just catching fish as a reaction bite.

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!!!!!!

I am underwhelmed by them. They cost more than the original and yet, the Bass I've caught with the SS could have been caught with the original IMO. I've only fished them T-rigged, weightless.

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Dan

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Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like something that I'll wait to see on...