Originally Posted By: Al Davison
 Originally Posted By: teehjaeh57
weightless senko...favorite colors? what hook do you favor?


My warm weather favorite is a 5" Yum Dinger that's kinda "baby bass" colored on top and sorta cream colored on the bottom (can't find the exact one on the web right now but I bet I've bought 30 packs of them over the past few years). Cooler weather preferences is usually junebug or black in Yamamoto Senko - sometimes 5" but sometimes 4".

I like both Owner and Gammie EWG hooks as a rule. Usually a 5/0 but sometimes a 4/0.
Sometimes I want a bigger hook just for the extra weight.

Always T-rigged - where I fish, you gotta have a chance of working that bait through the sticks without getting hung up all the time. ;\)

I'm not scared of big hooks - I've caught a bunch of 12" bass on 6" Money Minnows using a 6/0 hook so, I don't believe that using a hook that is "too big" will keep you from catching the smaller fish when they bite.


Good feedback - thanks! I haven't been in the hook market for plastics for a long time, but when I used to bass fish I'd use Gamakatsu [sp?] Mustad or Owners. Sounds like they're still the leaders in quality.

For my SMB and HSB I can't wait to try a weightless fluke. The action they impart and slow horizontal fall is hypnotic until your arms are dislocated from their sockets by a suicidal SMB or HSB [although mine aren't quite to socket dislocating metrics...YET].

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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