A resounding “Yes!” was my answer when my college-aged daughter asked if I’d take her fishing during the first week of summer break. Now, understand, she might fish one time per year. Therefore, I needed a lure that would give her (and me) the best chance of catching bass with the simplest means possible. The clear choice was the curiously versatile 5-inch soft stick bait.
When Gary Yamamoto introduced the Senko more than two decades ago, he initiated a genre of soft plastics that has likely become the most effective bass-catching worm of all time. The simplicity of its design (based on a ballpoint pen of all things) lends itself to multiple rigging methods that can produce bites when bass simply won’t eat other lures. The method that produced multiple spotted…
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Game & Fish East (Digital) - 1 Issue, June/July 2023