Comments on: More Old School!

By: Nomad

Nomad — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:04:07 +0000

Ack!!!! No way, Tex Mex! The Senko is and always will be my “go to” lure, well,as long as the bass keep tearing them up, that is. I just decided to start trying other lures this year so I can hopefully become a better and more well-rounded fisherman. As you know, if you only rely on one and only one lure, you’re hosed on the days the bass don’t want that lure. I’m a bit limited on what I can throw from shore in that river, but I’ve been having a good time trying a few different things.

By: Tex Mex

Tex Mex — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:13:36 +0000

Nomad,

Am I hearing “Taps” for the expensive senkos now. You always seem to catch them on anything you throw at them. You sure as heck do better than I ever did in that river. You just always seem to kill them. Good job and nice fish.

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:16:48 +0000

Now that’s taken it to them Bass Nomad! WTG, I fish that same spot this evening and caught four there. I’ll send the pics to you. I caught one at the power lines and it was well over 3 pounds. I also took Allen out with me and he manged to catch one also. I caught the first one on a 5″ black and green flake senko and the other four were on a 5″ natural shad senko’s. All the fish today were nice, no dinks and I managed to avoid a skunk which is my goal this year for every trip out.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:13:01 +0000

Nope, no weight at all. Just a big old 10.5″ worm on a 4/0 hook. On a spinning reel with 8-pound line, it casts pretty far…we’ll see how it goes once I go to heavier line though. When I first started yesterday, I was using the smaller, regular Zoom worms, with a bullet weight but they kept getting snagged so after losing 4 or 5 rigs, I put on the bigger hook and worm.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:02:18 +0000

LOL Nice going Nomad! Are you using any weight at all?

By: Wilsong

Wilsong — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:27:08 +0000

Haven’t seen it in bass but have seen other species try to eat things bigger than them.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:02:46 +0000

Mike,

Thanks, I just ordered some more of these worms

wilsong,

Makes you wonder…I mean that worm was almost twice as long as that dink. What if I used a 20″ plastic worm? Would a bass try to eat that too?

By: Wilsong

Wilsong — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:51:17 +0000

He was thinking “HOOOOONGRY!!!!!!” Great work Nomad.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:17:17 +0000

Nice looking fish. Keep it up.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:06:53 +0000

Thanks Steve, I’ve been scouring the internet to get more of those in the dark colors and lo and behold, almost everyone is out of stock exept for the weird colors. Imagine that. Once again, I’m late to the party, seems everyone else already knows that these produce in the summer time. We’ll see if the last two days were a fluke or what…but man, those fish were tearing them up this morning. That last one that broke my line…I cast out about 10 feet and lit a smoke. When I started reeling in, I felt hard resistance so I thought I had snagged up on the rocks but then the fish took off and started stripping drag. Quite the awesome morning