Senko's Get a Bad Rap?

[Jocko]

Senko's do get a bad rap, almost like if you are caught using one - you're a joke. It's like riding a bike with training wheels or like you might as well have a snoopy pole with a bobber. I guess too many guys have gotten their butts handed to them by someone using a senko and that's the only comeback they could think of - "oh you were using a senko" as if it's live bait.

I mainly only use mine as a follow up bait. Senko's don't fit into power fishing and I've got to keep moving and covering water. I hate to slow down - so senko's are not my style of fishing. But I'm not going to put them down either. It's pure genius and GYCB will go down as being the father of stick baits.

I remember when they first came out many years ago. It was a craze just like any other, you had to have some yamamoto senkos. I was floating the Potomac and ran into a few guys. Asked them how their day was and they opened the live well and pulled out a few citation smallies. Said they caught them on senkos and I didn't know what that was. Probably atleast 16 years - 18 years ago. How old are senkos? I subscribed to the GYCB Magazine and they would give you a credit - I bought a ton of senkos and hula grubs. The fish went CRAZY for them. Then as the entire world caught on, the fish are like " seen it". I don't think they are nearly as effective as when they were new. Everyone knows about and throws senkos.

[jfrancho]

How old are senkos?

Introduced in 1998.

[uncross]

I love senko's, have one tied on one of my rods almost all the time. I don't see why they get put down, or people who use them get put down. I have people talk about how there is no skill in using senko's and how they are too good of a fisherman to use senko's, senko's take no skill to use and all that b.s., then the same person relies on a depth finder and sonar to find structure and bait fish. In my opinion that should be considered cheating or less skill than using senkos. Not that there is anything wrong with fishfinders and sonar.

[Plasticpirogue]

Actually I think the Slug-O was the original soft plastic "soft jerkbait". The Senko was certainly an improvement and I do fish soft stickbaits, but I usually fish Yum Dingers.

[CrX970]

Actually I think the Slug-O was the original soft plastic "soft jerkbait". The Senko was certainly an improvement and I do fish soft stickbaits, but I usually fish Yum Dingers.

Dingers are like half the price too!

[Swamp Rat]

Actually I think the Slug-O was the original soft plastic "soft jerkbait". The Senko was certainly an improvement and I do fish soft stickbaits, but I usually fish Yum Dingers.

yes they were, and the Fin-S Fish from the same company was the original fluke bait, not the Zoom.

[flyfisher]

You know when i was bass fishing over 15 years ago i loved the sluggo. I then went into trout fishing mode and just started bass fishing again about 2 years ago and the first bait i went for was the sluggo and that led me to the fluke and then the yum dinger.....

I guess it is all about what you are confident in and what you like to fish.....no artificial bait is an automatic win. And i have never even caught a fish on a wacky rigged bait....

[uncross]

Actually I think the Slug-O was the original soft plastic "soft jerkbait". The Senko was certainly an improvement and I do fish soft stickbaits, but I usually fish Yum Dingers.

I remember catching a ton of bass on bass assassin's 18-20 years ago when I was a teenager. If I remember correctly they were very similar to the slug-o.

[jfrancho]

The Slug-O gave birth to the fluke style baits, and was pretty much the first popular soft plastic jerkbait. I don't even recall the term "jerkbait" being used for them until they evolved into flukes. The Senko was never intended to be a a jerkbait, but it works well as one when rigged weedless on an offset worm hook.

[w2n]

The Senko was never intended to be a a jerkbait, but it works well as one when rigged weedless on an offset worm hook.

That's my favorite way to toss ACTUAL Gary Yamamoto Senko's.