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How should I retrieve a weightless texas rigged senko?

Retrieving a weightless Texas-rigged Senko is all about letting the bait do the work for you. The Senko is designed to have a natural, enticing fall that mimics the movement of prey in the water, which is often enough to trigger strikes from bass. Here's how to effectively retrieve this setup:

Cast and Watch: After casting your weightless Texas-rigged Senko, keep a close eye on your line as the bait sinks. The Senko will shimmy and flutter on the fall, which is where it's most effective. Watch for any twitches or sudden movements in your line, which could indicate a bass has taken the bait.
Give It Time: Allow the Senko to fall on slack line to the bottom. This slack enables the Senko to descend slowly and naturally. If you keep the line tight, it may impede the Senko's action and make it less appealing to bass.
Subtle Twitches: Once it's on the bottom, you can give it a couple of gentle twitches with your rod tip to make it hop or dance slightly. This can entice a bass that might be eyeing the bait but hasn't committed to striking.
Pause and Observe: After twitching, let the Senko settle back down and pause for a few seconds. This pause can often trigger a strike if a bass is following or watching the bait.
Reel and Repeat: Slowly reel in the slack line, and then repeat the process of letting the Senko fall back down. Work your way back to the boat or shore with this method, giving bass in different areas a chance to see and strike at the bait.
Hookset: If you feel a bite or see your line moving off (which could indicate a bass swimming away with the bait), reel up the slack quickly and set the hook firmly with a snapping motion of the rod.

Remember, the key to fishing a weightless Texas-rigged Senko is patience. It's a finesse technique that relies on the subtle action of the bait to entice bass. Keep your movements minimal and let the Senko's design do the work for you. As mentioned in the video context, the Senko's shimmy action on the fall is what makes it so effective, so make sure to capitalize on that by allowing it to sink on a slack line and watching your line closely for any signs of a bite.

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How To Fish Texas Rigged Senkos | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → There we are. Okay. Come here guy. Got it on a weighted Senko. Come here big guy. Look at that. Tell you what guys, catching here on a Texas rigged weighted Senko. I'm gonna show you how to catch fish today on it. Just ah, I'm gonna show you how to rig this up and what type of equipment you should be using on it. And then I'm going to take you on the water and show you the different techniques you can be using for fishing a weighted Texas rigged Senko. Hey, folks, Glenn May here with BassResource.com. Today, I want to talk to you about fishing a Texas Rigged Senko. Not weightless, but with a bullet sinker in front of it. You know, if you're not sure how to rig it this way, I've got a video that shows you how to do that. It's linked underneath this video. You can go check that out in a little bit. But right now, I want to talk to you about the different gear and the outfit to use this rig. And then I'm going to show you how to fish it. So to start with, I'm using a stout, extra wide gap hook here. This is a 3/0, might be even a 4/0 hook. Real strong, you want to look for a hook that's called the superline hook or flipping hook. And the reason being is because we're going to be throwing this in some heavy cover. So I've got a tungsten weight here. This is a 3/8-ounce weight.

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How To Rig A Senko 5 Ways | Bass Fishing Tips by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Consequently, it keeps it from tearing too, it makes the bait last a lot longer. Okay, then I just rig it normal Texas style, that's how you want it to look. You line it up, bring it through the bait. Then I just, you can see the hook sticking out like that. So I "Texpose" it, just back it off a little bit and put the hook, bury the hook right back inside the bait so that way it's nice and flush so it doesn't pick up any weeds. That's the most basic way to fish this bait, weightless, throw it out there. When it drops, it drops vertically and it just shimmies like this, just does this little shimmy action as it falls down. The fish just love that, love that, so this is the most common way to do it. Here I'm using 15-pound test, I'll use it on a medium-heavy action rod with a fast action tip. That's my typical general purpose setup, I throw this in all kinds of cover and open water. There's several other ways to fish this. For example, you can fish it drop shot. Here I've got it rigged up on a drop shot rig, okay? It's just sticking out like that. In the water, it's going to stick out like this. I just have it nose hooked, as you can see. Okay? I just have it nose hooked. So it's not Texas rigged in this case, but the bait is free to do its little action. Okay?

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How To Fish Texas Rigged Senkos | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → It's kind of an unorthodox way of using a Senko. I mean, yeah, if you got a weighted Senko, you can flip and pitch it in other areas where you normally fish jigs and plastics. But I think, it really shines well in places like this because it doesn't have any appendages that's going to get hung up on any weeds or if there happens to be any twigs or branches down there, it's not going to get hung up on any of that stuff so you can bring it through this cover really, really well. So you're more effective at fishing this area. You're spending more time fishing it than you are getting your bait unstuck off something, you know. So give that a try. Next time you come against cover like this, take your punching bait off, put a Senko on it and give it a whirl. For more tips and tricks like this, visit BassResource.com.

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How To Fish Texas Rigged Senkos | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → Now if you notice, a lot of baits that are used for punching are kind of bullet shaped. They're kind of streamlined. They're narrower up front than they are in the back, that helps them get into the weeds and into that cover a lot easier than say a bigger bulky bait like a jig. But if you look at this, the weight is the same width as the bait, so that makes it for an excellent punching bait. So on stuff like this, a lot of times, you pass it by because you can't fish it very well, that's where I pull this rig out. All you got to do is just pitch it in there and let it fall right through the cover and then keep a tight line on it. And you want to feel for that bite. A lot of times that bite occurs right when it punches through because it's a reaction type bite. Lift it up through that hole, bring it up over the top and let it fall right back in again. And that's how you work it back to the boat. Just let it find its holes by itself. Lift up on it and see if you can't feel that fish. Lift up on it a little bit and feel for it. If you don't feel anything, just lift it back up again and let it fall through another hole. It's a great way to fish when the fish are buried up underneath stuff like this. They're holding deep in thick cover.

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How To Rig A Senko 5 Ways | Bass Fishing Tips by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → What it does is when it hits the ground, when you throw it in heavier cover, it stands up like that and then slowly wiggles as it falls back down, all right? Fish love this, and you can throw this in cover, throw this in heavy cover wood, things like that, it's not going to get hung up. It's also a little bit subtle action. Sometimes when you're throwing those creature baits, those lizards and those Brush Hogs and that sort of thing, they got all those appendages making all this action and sometimes that's not what the fish want. They just want something a little more subtle, a little bit less action, and that's when this is the ticket. Okay? It's very basic, straightforward, but sometimes that's candy to them. So take a look at your Texas rig and if you're not getting bites, maybe you put one of these on. Finally, another way that I rig it is the split shot rig. Here I've got a, or a Mojo rig, some people call it Mojo. I have a cylinder weight up here on the front, this goes through weeds and rocks a lot better without getting hung up, so it works really well. About 18 inches behind it, again, I have that weightless Texas rig just like I showed you. This is a little bit smaller bait, this is a three-inch bait, because I'm using here a six-pound test on a seven-foot medium-light action rod again. I'm sensing a theme, that's what I use for my finesse gear. You can use six-to ten-pound test.

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Texas Rig Tricks To Catch More Bass! (BEGINNER And ADVANCED) by TacticalBassin → and then this swims down almost weightless behind it and up against pilings it's unbelievable how well it works it's one of those little magic tricks that i held on to for years and years it was just post spawn early summer fish like to suck up in that shade on a hot day and i knew that i could rig this exact setup up pitch it up on every piling on a dock and if there's a good one under there i'm going to catch them and again i'll link all this stuff in the video description today's video description is going to be very very full very full but i will do my best to get all of it in there for you uh let's talk weightless because that's a really simple one okay in this category the senko is king so five inch senko i rig on a three-ought superline ewg six-inch senko a rig on a four-ought super-line ewg now again you could throw them on a regular worm hook you could use different hooks for them i really prefer that ewg style hook personal preference but three ought and four odd and then i just throw it up against cover and just leave slack and just let it fall and i just watch my line if you see a hop in the line if you see it start to take off set the hook you don't need to reel up

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