The Singular Senko
Posted by Pete Robbins on Sep 9th 2020
I figure I’m a little bit over 20 years into my Senko addiction and one of my biggest regrets in life is that I didn’t start using them sooner. I remember getting a pack as a bonus for renewing my subscription to the old print version of the Inside Line magazine, but I had no idea how to fish them – I think I tried to make them act like a soft jerkbait – and I put them down until I started getting my ass kicked by others who knew more about what to do.
Since then, my greatest weakness is that I probably fish them too much. I don’t really care why they work, I just know that they do, in all types of conditions and all types of habitat. I can’t say that for any other lure.
You can say that this column is unnecessarily advertorial, seeing how it is published with paid-by-Yamamoto-financed-pixels, but I dare anyone to say that the lure doesn’t consistently work better than the competition. I hear guys say “one bait, one bite, one buck” in order to put them down, but when I get in the pros’ boats they’re all using the original. Look at BASS Live, MLF, or YouTube and you’ll see the same. That speaks volumes. Yes, when the fish are chowing down on anything and everything, a knockoff might be fine, but when things tighten up and money is on the line, there really is no substitute. Obviously it has been knocked off dozens of times over the year, but it continues to amaze me that no one has matched the precise fall rate and wiggle of the original. You’d think they would’ve reverse-engineered or improved upon it with the marvels of modern manufacturing, but in this case you really need to know that the one that came first is still in the pole position.
