Quick and simple. We recently have been collecting a large container of used soft plastics that have either been poked by hooks one too many times or that we just did not like. Now, if you are a custom soft plastic bait builder, then this cemetery of soft plastics is right up your alley, but for us who count on you custom bait builders to supply us this cemetery is a buzz kill.
Recently, we decided to take our stick soft plastics and turn them into a tube senko hybrid. On the skinny end of your senkos (considering you are using the common 5 inch ones) take a sharp exacto knife and do a bit of dissecting. Laying the bait flat make an incision 1 inch up from the tail and slide the knife down. Turning the bait about 90 degrees do the same for a quad tube looking tail. Do this multiple times to give it more flare and that tube appearance. With your hybrid senko tube, the best luck we have had with it is texas rigging the bait so that now flaring tail sticks up in the water for huge bites! The action of the damaged senko/stick is now tuned up due to the wavy effect when in water.
So re-use it, re-tool and re-create with those dead soft plastics and you could have results like this!
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| Spencer - 5/17/2013 - Long Lake Park- 7.9lbs Senko Black w/Gold Flared Tail |
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