How to Fish a Wacky Rig and Other Details about a Senko

there's one there we go this bait does catch fish all fish even little bitty ones oh look at that little guy what's going on guys this is gene jensen and today i am finally making a video about a senko i'm going to talk about all the little details the different ways to fish this little bait and the ways that have been successful for me in the past and just dive into the dirty details of a senko [Music] all right so the first technique i want to talk about is a wacky rig it is the most popular way to fish a senko and it is a rig you can fish any soft plastic wacky style but this is this is how i've fine-tuned it and figured out one how to make your your uh your senko last longer on the hook and two how to make it a little bit easier to rig and how to how to make it you know you can catch and hook more fish doing it right let's start off first thing we'll start off with is the rods and the reels with a wacky rig you're throwing it weightless but a senko and any other type of a stick bait are fairly heavy so you can throw it on a medium power bait caster you know seven three to one eight eight one to one gear ratio reel whatever i mean it really doesn't matter with the reel but uh with this one i'm throwing it on a medium power spinning rod a 2000 size reel i've got 20 pound braid as a main line to a 10 pound fluorocarbon leader and that is connected with let me get a little bit more slack in the line that's connected with an fg knot that nice little thin knot right there that you never hear go through the guides so i want you to look real closely about of how i've got this thing rigged up okay most people rig it with an o-ring and when you rig it with an o-ring your hook is turned sideways like this and what i've found is a lot of times when the fish bite it bunches up the soft plastic right here and you never get a good hook set when your hook is going the same direction as the as the worm so you really want your hook to be 90 degrees to the worm and i do that by using some heat shrink something new i started this year and it does two things it solves the biggest problem which is a senko is really really um fragile it's not very durable two fish is about it for most of the time especially when you're fishing with an o-ring or just fishing it with nothing in the middle at all but with a heat shrink it's a little bit wider it's clear which is awesome but it is very very durable and it gives you a wider uh section of your worm to where it is a lot more durable and the fish can't throw it off you know rip it off or throw it off when they're fighting number two is the hook stays in it this this hook is really really hard to get out and so um it's going to last a long time it's going to stay on there a long time you almost have to cut it off when you have to replace it so it's really really good let me let me talk about how i how i do this now this is a 3 8 inch clear heat shrink that i got off of amazon i'll leave all the links to all of my stuff i've used down in the description um and it's a 3 8 inch and then i have a lighter that i keep in my tackle box and you just slide that 3 8 inch heat shrink over the tip over the end of it slide it all the way down to almost to that little egg sack right there so you're almost dead center and then you take your lighter out and you light it and you heat it up and it shrinks pretty quick you don't have to do it very much and you're not going to melt the worm you know stick your hook in there and have a whole lot of fun i mean that's that is how i rig a wacky rig senko and it really does work good now let's talk about how to fish it all right so history with me is i don't like to fish a senko um i do uh when people don't know it but i do when i need to catch a fish or when i'm fishing in a tournament the bite's really tough i will throw a senko and i do it quite often but uh the way you fish it is pretty simple you gotta think when that when that worm hits the water the with this the amount of salt and stuff that are in a senko or in a stick bait as it's falling it's wiggling it's got this little wiggling action as it falls and we'll do some underwater footage and show you while i'm talking about it but it wiggles as it falls and that seems to be a really non-intrusive enticing action for the fish but i'm gonna throw it out and i'm gonna let it slink let it sink on a slack line and i'm watching my line one of the critical things about fishing a weightless senko is i have this high vis seaguar smackdown braid and i can sit there and watch the line and i can see it on the water and when the fish bites it'll it'll twitch a little bit or it will uh or it'll just start swimming away when it's not not supposed to so i'll pop it up it went to the bottom and i popped it up and i when i pop it i want to shake it like shaking my rod so it comes up like this and then let it fall back down nice and easy on a slack line and there's three different time or there's two different times the bass are really going to bite it they're going to bite it on the fall or they're going to bite it after it hits the bottom and it's been sitting there for a minute so one of the things i do that a lot of people don't talk about is once it gets down to the bottom i don't really pop it up yet i shake it and then i pop it up and i let it fall back down alright so before we jump into the next rig i want to talk about the actual stick bait itself there's there's really two different brands of stick bait that i fish a hundred percent of the time there are a lot of other ones out there they work just as good i know big bites has them and there's tons of companies that have a stick bait but the two that i keep keep on me all the time are the kvd perfect plastic uh ocho is what i is one of the ones and i love some of the colors they have it this is a green pumpkin candy and i'd pretty much fish that 100 of the time or their straight green pumpkin and then the yamamoto 5 inch are the ones that i keep the most and these are either in black and blue or in green pumpkin so really the only two colors that i fish are green pumpkin and black and blue and five inch i will go up to the the larger six inch but most of the time i'm just throwing this because i'm trying to get any fish to bite and a little fish will even hit this little five inch senko all right so the hooks are real important and i have three different types of wacky hooks that i throw uh one is the g finesse weedless wacky the other one is a finesse wide gap hook is what it's called and the and the other one is a called a wicked wacky i believe and the wicked wacky is really good because it's a it's styled after the old k heel hooks and years ago i was guiding a couple of old guys they showed up with these giant k-hill hooks that they had rigged with these two little wires coming off of them to make them weedless they literally had hand-tied all these hooks and uh back then i was having a hard time getting bass to stay on the hook when i was fishing wacky style and those cahill hooks and that we those weed guards the way those guys had them set up they landed every single fish that they hooked all right so this next one is the texas rig and i love to fish a cinco on a texas rig and there's a several reasons we'll talk about just a second but let's talk about how to rig it i use two different hooks two different style hooks i use the g finesse flipping hook light wire flipping hook and i use a ewg either in three otter four ought this is a three odd you can see there's not a whole lot of gap here i tend to go towards a four ought i just didn't bring them with me but ewg or some type of flipping hook now with the weights the heaviest weight that i'm going to use is a a half ounce this is a 3 8 but a half ounce tungsten weight with a peg with a peg or a a punch stop up front and i'm going to slide that punch stuff all the way up against there okay and then to rig it you can either rig it texas style with that extra wide gap hook or with this one i'm just going to go through at an angle slide it down flip it over line it up and go just like that and that's how and this punch stop is critical for the way that i like to fish it let's talk about that all right so what i think is the reason the texas rig is so effective it is a texas rig senko is so effective is that it is a great flipping bait and the reason is is when it falls as it's falling down it falls in a spiral okay and so as it falls in a spiral that is such a great um attracting action to a bass tubes did that and a whole bunch of other different baits the ones that spiral on the way down and that's the reason why i'm not going to use a super heavy weight anything heavier than a half ounce because it takes that spiral away but when you're covering water when you're flipping cover or flipping brush or just flipping along the bank you just throw it out and let it sink on a semi-slack line or a slack line and as it's falling it's spiraling down and just pop it up and i and as i'm working cover and as i'm working the bank i'm just running along the bank and i'm just flipping and pitching now the rod that i'm going to be using is i'm i use a medium heavy a seven foot three make sure it's ten foot three yep seven foot three medium heavy rod an eight one to one gear ratio reel 15 15 to 20 pound test fluorocarbon line and i and i'm gonna be ready to jack them is basically what it is so this is not a finesse technique it is not meant to be one you're flipping into heavy cover now there's a couple of other tricks you can do and i'm gonna pull this senko or this is a ocho i'm gonna pull this ocho off of this hook and i'm gonna take this extra wide gap hook and i'm gonna show you a trick now pretend there's a line hooked up to this this uh or tied to this hook and a sinker up in front of it um actually no pretenders line tied to it with no sinker i'm fishing it weightless but i'm still going to texas rig it but instead of doing it like you normally do bring it in and bring it out and then when you by the time you're done rigging it the the the eye of the hook is right there on the tip of it what i want to do is i want to take and i want to bring it down and i want to bring it down and i want to bring it down and i want to pull it through and then i want to work that hook all the way down until that bend that offset bend comes out right there just like that and then i'm going to texas rig it behind or run the the hook behind the egg sac and then skin it like this now weightless rigged like this with the the hook being the weight rigged back in the back of the or towards the further towards the back of the worm it causes that worm as it falls not to fall down like it normally would but to fall away from you so if you're fishing under docks or you're fishing under trees that are laying down like this you throw it up in there and if the bass are sitting like on this sea wall that's right here that bait will swing will go will fall towards the uh towards the bass and right into their face and it causes them to bite that's a simple little trick now if you go just a little further up it'll cause that worm to fall just like this a little bit better and it won't go nose down so you can play around with where that hook is and it works great so but you do that weightless so here's another one that can be done on with a baitcaster can be done with a spinning rod um i um it's basically what it's kind of the the original method that gary yamamoto meant or had in mind when he designed the senko and that's to nose hook it so you take a little you know wide gap finesse hook and get it to where the you guys can see it i'm literally just gonna nose hook it now i'm not this is not gonna make your worm last very long okay this is one of those that it really has you have a hundred percent action on the worm and everything else but you're only going to catch one fish per worm whether you're using a yamamoto or any any other style bait but you nose hook it just like that and you fish it just like you would a wacky you throw it out let it sink to the bottom you work it now the other option to fish it is you can fish it like a jerkbait throw it out pop pop pop and let it sink a little bit and pop pop pop and let it sink if they're really really the fish are really active and you'll get a ton of bites but like i said it's not gonna last very long but man when you have to when you have no choice when you're fishing a tournament and you really need them to get by and get the bite and you're you're desperate and you really want to catch some fish that's a wonderful way to rig it and uh and fish it but like i said i would not if you're on a budget i wouldn't recommend it because they're not going to last very long all right so the last rig i want to talk about is one that i fish all summer long we're not quite in the summer yet so i don't even have one rigged up but a carolina rig now i learned how effective a senko was on a carolina rig completely on accident i was out of my favorite bait which was a zoom uh speed worm is what my favorite one was years ago and i could not i didn't have them i i and i had 100 confidence in them so the only thing i had that was somewhere close it was a senko and the zoom speed worm is basically uh the same shape as a senko with a kicktail on the back side of it so i just took a senko threw it on a carolina rig and i spent three weeks probably four days total just whacking them on a carolina rig senko and so that's why i'm including it in this video because it has worked so good for me over the years and it is such a good un i wouldn't call it unknown but not very well known way of fishing a senko so i mean i love it so let's go and i'm gonna grab uh a texas rig and i'm gonna grab a wacky rig and i'm gonna go see if i can catch a couple more fish before we end this video fish oh my gosh [Music] he was so freaking small like nope not that one i can't catch one bigger than this but that's what's good about a senko is that a senko is all about getting you to catch a fish when you just have to get your line pulled it is one of those baits it is the bait man really that will just absolutely wreck him and uh let me pop this hook out of fish's mouth and let him go i can't get my finger around the hook there we go but it catches them and it's great for beginners it's great for experts it's great to save yourself during a tournament it's just one of those baits that always seems to catch them so go out and try it try these techniques try what i've taught you and have fun catching fish but like i always say be sure to introduce somebody to fishing introduce them to my channel let me help you teach them how to fish more importantly get out of the water go ahead get catch some fish and have a great day we'll see

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Length: 16min 36sec (996 seconds)

Published: Tue May 25 2021