Pond Trip 8/23

Steve826 08/24/2008 - 13:13 Trip Reports Impoundments Roll Your Own Fished a local pond last night with my dad from 7-8:30. Started out with a Senko fished in the dam area...no bites but my new reel casts a weightless senko GOOD. I'm having a little trouble with detecting Senko bites...what I usually do is cast out as far as possible, let it fall on a slack line, wait a few seconds. Then wind up the slack, and twitch the rod tip up a foot and let it fall on a slack line again. And I retrieve the senko doing that..but since the line is slack, how do I detect bites?

Well anyway after that...decided to use my zebco that i had rigged up with a small hook and bobber to catch some bream to use as bait. Within seconds I caught a little 4 incher so I rigged him up on a size 1 hook under a larger bobber. Had something big take a swipe at it...my bobber moved about 3 feet in 2 seconds...but I didnt connect. Spent the rest of the night catchin bream on my other rig just waiting for somethin to go after the bream i had under the bobber. The grass was HORRIBLE...i cant wait til it gets cooler out and can actually catch some bass..hopefully..I havent caught a bass since July :( Ahh well its ok I had fun catchin little bluegills anyway haha

Steve

Capt, thanks for the Senko ti

Steve826 08/25/2008 - 19:30 Capt, thanks for the Senko tips. I may have to give that wacky rig under a bobber a try one of these days...I'd be able to detect bites easy anyway. I'll keep experimenting, I know senkos are good baits.

Mike, thank you very much for suggesting the President. It works great, casts well, and most of all- NO LINE TWIST AS OF YET! Haha I'm pretty happy with it.

Keep going..

muskalungee 08/25/2008 - 18:54 Glad to see that you're getting used to the new spinning rig. Take this time when you go out to practice your fundamentals and make sure you turn that bail over with your hand after casting (don't use the reel handle). It'll save you a ton of trouble if you work on it now and don't have to teach yourself later (like I've been doing this year).

Muskalungeeeeeeee!
-Mike

Detecting a Senko bite..

Captwalleye 08/25/2008 - 06:28 You need to keep a sharp watch on your line where it enters the water.Try to maintain some tension on your line without making the lure move.You can actually see the line twitch or start moving away when a fish grabs it.Also after you cast as soon as the lure lands begin counting to see how long it takes for the lure to reach bottom and your line to go slack indicating so.Keep that in mind,and count the lure down everytime.For example:::If you notice your line go slack after a four count,and you've been counting to nine before your line goes slack.You had a fish grab it on the fall.Start taking up your slack,and watching the line to move.You may even feel the sensation of animation on your line too.Keep your cool,wind down a bit more and than set the hook.Your going to have to keep at this to learn all the ways a fish will strike this lure or any lure.Best advice is.."when in doubt",SET THE HOOK!

Steve,this is way that works for me.It may work for you. Hopefully,
someone else will volunteer their opinion of how to fish a Senko.You can make it simple or as technical as you want.I'd go the route that works for me.Hey,you can fish it (wacky style)under a bobber too if you want.The only wrong way to fish a Senko is to not fish it.Don't get discouraged,it works and it will eventually.Remember P&P.