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Best way to fish a senko?

The best method for fishing a Senko, according to the video context, is to cast it out, engage the reel, and let it sink. The Senko is a soft plastic stick bait that flutters, moves, and wiggles as it falls. While it's sinking, it's important to watch the bait and the line for any twitches, jumps, or odd movements, as these could indicate that a fish has grabbed it. Once the Senko hits the bottom, you can lift it up with your rod tip and let it fall again with slack line. Reel up some of the slack until you almost have the bait, but avoid moving the bait with your reel.

Another method mentioned in the video is to twitch the Senko back to the boat after casting it out. You can do this at any speed, from slow to fast, and it can mimic a jerk bait or a baitfish skimming across the surface. This method is particularly effective when the fish are feeding on schooling baitfish.

Additionally, you can drag the Senko on the bottom to imitate a baitfish like a sculpin. To do this, move the rod tip to the side and reel up the slack as you drag the bait along. This method can be successful when trying to target fish feeding off the bottom.

It's important to pay close attention to the line and any movements or jumps, as bites often occur on the fall or with a slack line. Setting the hook at the right moment is crucial to avoid gut hooking the fish.

Overall, the best method for fishing a Senko is to experiment with different techniques, such as letting it sink, twitching it, or dragging it, and see what works best in your fishing conditions. Remember to pay attention to the line and be patient, as sometimes the bites can be subtle.

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How To Fish A Senko | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource I tend to throw the bait around heavy cover, and around bushes, and thick weeds, so I'm using the 15lb, that's why I do that. But if you're in open water? Fishing rocky areas, where there is not a whole lot of vegetation or something where the fish can wrap you up, then by all means, go with 8lb test, 6lb test if you want. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just telling you the way that I do it. Okay, so that's the gear, that's how I use it. Now let's go out and fish it. Okay, so one of the basic ways and the most effective ways to fish the Senko is simply just cast it out there, engage the reel, and then let it sink. Let it do its thing. The Senko flutters and moves and wiggles. The key thing is, when it's falling like that you wanna watch the bait. You wanna watch the line especially. Watch that line to see if it twitches, jumps, flicks, does anything odd, because that's usually the fish grabbing it. So pay close attention that if you see that, then of course set the hook. Once it hits the bottom, all you're gonna do is just lift it up with your rod tip, and let it fall and slack line. Reel up some of that slack, 'till it's just about . . . 'till you just about have the bait, but you don't wanna move the bait with your reel.
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How To Fish A Senko | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource For more tips and tricks like this, visit the BassResource.com.
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How To Fish A Senko: Everything You Need To Know! by TacticalBassin what's up guys tim little welcome back to tactical bassin today's video we are talking senkos how to fish senkos right now to catch fish they are one of the most universal baits can catch fish in any body of water across the country let's go just last video matt did his top five or six baits for the month of april and guess what his number one bait would be the senko now the senko a soft plastic stick bait this is actually a seven inch here's a five inch i totally agree with matt you know we did a video probably i don't know four or five maybe six years ago time's flying but we did a is the senko the best bass fishing bait ever made the best fishing bait ever made so many tournaments been one on it so many big fish have been caught on it but it is super universal believe it or not this little five inch stick bait has caught more double-digit bass than a lot of other baits combined and actually matt's wife cece i don't know what size senko but i think her pb like 14 pounds 14 plus pounds was caught in a tournament on a senko so it catches giant fish too but today how to rig a senko how to fish a senko and how to simplify a senko because believe it or not it is the most one of the most universal baits
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How To Fish A Senko | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource You just want it to fall straight down, and that's the enticing . . . it does the work for you. You don't have to do anything. Let it fall. Again, now my line is slack, so I know that it's hit the bottom. I'm just gonna reel it right back up again. All I'm doing here, I'm fishing an area that's got some rocks in here, and some scattered weeds, and the fish are out here roaming in it, and that's a perfect way to fish this bait. And that is how I do it 90% of the time, how anybody does it, really. You just cast it out, let it fall. A lot of time those bites occur on the fall on that slack line and that's the hard part, it's detecting that bite. So pay real close attention to that line. If you don't and the fish grabs it, then by the time you realize there's a fish there and you set the hook, you might gut hook fish them. It's real easy to do that with this bait, so pay close attention to that line. I'm gonna show you one other way to retrieve it. Once you've cast it out there, now what you wanna do is kinda bring the rod tip down, just kinda twitch it. And then just twitch it back to the boat. And you can do this at any speed. Here I'm doing it at a moderate, you know . . . twitching. This is like a jerk bait.
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How To Fish A Senko | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource But one other way to do it is, you can do it really fast. You can do it slow, you can do it really fast. You can make it look like a bait fish just kinda skimming across the surface. Just pop it, pop it, pop it, pop it. And reel it in as you do it. And it looks just like a little bait fish that's trying to get away from something. And a lot of time, especially when the fish are feeding on schooling bait fish, you can throw right into them and pop it like this and you can catch a lot of fish doing it this way. Okay, very straightforward way of fishing it. One other method I wanna show you here, you cast it out, let it sink, and once it hits the bottom, all you wanna do is drag it on the bottom. And here you are trying to imitate some kind of a bait fish, say a sculpin or something like that, feeding off the bottom. And in that case you just wanna move it with the rod tip. I like to move it to the side. Some people like to lift up on it, but I don't wanna lift it up off the bottom here, I just wanna drag it along. Just move the rod tip, and then reel up the slack. And that's all there is to it. Straightforward Senko fishing. If you fish it like this you're gonna have whole heck of a lot of fun.
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Senko Fishing Tricks! Beginner And Advanced! by TacticalBassin i'm gonna see a flick a lot of times you won't feel the bait you're just gonna see that line jump on the on the surface so i watch that bait down and i let it fall anywhere from a foot to 20 feet you know it gets really really you gotta be really really patient but it works a lot of guys from the west coast have been doing this for many many years and have success on all the different tours and tournament circuits all across the country but if you can skip a five inch senko up underneath those that cover whatever it may be and let it fall you guys will catch some of the biggest uh bass and most finicky bass you've ever caught on this guy right here now with that said colors i'm going to go through my favorite colors of senkos i have some some primary colors if i'm fishing a bottom and i also have some primary colors if i'm fishing that technique that i just explained hands down my two favorite styles for this technique this is going to be baby bass another tip for you guys i started doing this a long long time ago take a black sharpie and color the last half inch or three quarters of an inch of your bait with that sharpie if you have ever seen a baby bass in the springtime one thing you'll notice is they all have

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