All this rain has me going through a bunch of past threads and there was one where a guy was having no success with crankbaits. It was early in the season and he had some waxies with him and tipped one treble hook. Fish after fish.
So, I'm laying in bed last night thinking, I might try threading on a stub of nightcrawler onto the hook shank of my Senko setup??
Depends on the lake I would assume and if you are bank fishing.. I would assume bank fishing this way will catch you a lot of panfish and very few bass. But I don't know.
I don't think there's much doubt that fish hit live (or recently diseased) bait more than artificial. But I'm not sure adding a piece of worm to a lure would be much different from putting fish attractant on the worm.
I use some garlic scent with Senkos but adding a natural scent like nightcrawler bits that fish may associate better with that profile could up the bite. Worth a try.
A senko is a deadly bait, as is a big weightless, nose-hooked crawler on a small hook (shoutout Carl Malz!). My personal opinion is either 1 would be more productive on their own & less so by combining them.
Try it and get back to us. Be careful with deep hooked fish because regular senkos get swallowed without tasting like tasty worms. God knows theres been a ton of them on my driveway recently
In Canada last year, we were using live crawlers/jig and Twister/jig combos without much luck... On a whim I added about a 1/3 of a crawler to the Twister/jig and whollysheet man. That was the hot ticket for the week and increased our catch rate phenomenally. I swear I just read something recently about this over on WC, but can't find the thread right at the moment.
I've tried tipping plastics with a piece of crawler a number of times without very positive results. The one exception was fishing for river smallies where I added half a crawler to the hook on a tube jig. This was to make a live bait, bigger version of the berkley atomic teaser which I've had very good luck with for crappie. The tube + crawler combo definitely out performed tube only but I'm not sure it did better than crawler only would have done on that day. I haven't tried it again, actually I forgot all about it until this thread.
Also, I know many spring coho fisherman swear by tipping a grub on 1/4oz jighead with piece of squid. Lastly, I've had really good luck in early spring fishing small spoons, where I have replaced the treble hook with single hooks and tipped with wax worms.
FWIW- Here's the thread I was referring to about using crawler/twister combos, also discussion of using other "meat" with plastics as well and some on preserved baits.
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