Senko Secret Revealed!!

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

You know, one of life's little mysteries to me has been why does the Senko catch fish the way it does?:huh: Is it the scent? Is it the action? Doesn't look like anything....A bic ballpoint pen maybe....So why does it work?? In my home lake (Lake Anna) I think I have it figured out....Stay with me here, there is a point....I went out "prospecting" yesterday, looking for some new water and different spots, for upcoming tournaments. Weather was cold and misty/rainy all day. I venture off the main lake and head for a big creek that I rarely fish (been blanked in there too many times):angry: because the fish are there for a short time during the spawn. About 1/2 way back in the creek there is a little cove with a good sized hump out in front in 20+ feet of water. I set the boat down and start fishing to the back of the cove. 1/2 way back, there is a good sized laydown. I fish the laydown with a Senko thinking that for sure I was gonna get bit....no such luck....I continue to the back of the cove and manage a 3 pounder in about 2 feet of water at the creek mouth. On my way out, I decide to hit that tree one more time. As I am slowly pulling my Watermellon/Black Fleck (color 297) Senko through the submerged tree, I feel that familiar "thump" that we Senko fishermen live for!! I go on point....lower my rod tip, reel up slack line getting ready to cross Mr. Bass' eyes........I am at defcon 5....if there is the slightest tug on my line, I'll rare back for everything I am worth. As I raise my rod on a tight line, I feel no tug....just weight....is it a leaf....a piece of bark.....or is that wiley 10 pound bass (my personal goal) swimming at the boat? My heart is racing, my adrenelane pumping.....Closer and closer the Senko comes to the boat and still no indication that there is a fish on my line, all the while I am on a hair trigger...."just give me a reason" I mumble to myself....all the while keeping an eye peeled on the crystal clear water for any sign of a fish.....As my Senko surfaces what do I see....



THIS.......

At first I thought I had snagged him with the hook as I pulled it through the tree branches and felt sorry for him but then I noticed that this little bugger WAS DOING THE WILD THING TO MY SENKO!!! He's holding on for dear life goin to town!! What now????.....Do I let him finish? Do I coitus interuptus.... Do I cover him with a towel? By this time I am laughing my arse off and he just keeps on doin' the deed. Then I realize that hey this is a new Senko we're talkin about here so I decide to pull him off from violating my Senko any furthur but the little dude won't let loose (must have been some good Senko!!). I finally pry the little pervert off my bait and toss him back in the lake. What did I learn? That in Lake Anna, Watermellon/Black Fleck Senkos look like female newts and good looking ones at that!! As an aside....bass eat them little newts also, so that would explain the successful color!!



TOXIC

 

[Eddie Payne]

Man now some wildlife biologist type will want to rope off the whole lake to do a study of the trauma induced on the Newt population during mating season by bass fishermen. Boy I hope PETA doesn't get wind of this, it could be terrible.



One for the book for sure.

 

[Brian Ingersoll]

:blink: :wacko:



you actually had to pry him off???



I've got to many things running through my mind to put any of them down, but that has got to be a once in a lifetime experience - your own little part in salamander sex.

 

[mike chip]

hey toxic,

How did the rest of the day go? did we manage to find some fish or not.

mike c

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Maybe I am fishing the Senko a little too slow!!:lol::lol::lol::lol:



TOXIC

 

[Bob G.]

Geeze Tox, ya should have let him finish. You might have ended up with some offspring that could be a new design for a Senko with funny tail!!! :lol:



Bob G.

 

[Mike L.]

That was a pretty cool find and comparison Tox!



Maybe I shouldn't spray bass attractant on my Senko's and just rub

on a little KY on them!

 

[Bill McElroy]

Tox,...what you REALLY learned is that a horney, male Newt has no morals, self respect or pride!! Even if a piece of lifeless, artificial, soft plastic enters it's lair on a warm spring day,...he's gonna make it his Beyotch!!! Only a senko can go from being a soft plastic lifeless bait, to a Newt-Ho in a matter of seconds.:blink: Nature is FULL of cheap porn if you know where to look!!:unsure:

 

[Mini]

So Mac, what your sayin is that it is a little like me? lol!

 

[Steve Rizza]

I've never seen bass go after newts. Up at the cabin, there is a pond full of bass, and newts. I have tossed so many of the little buggers at the bass, and have never seen them eat one, even as they are slowly swimming past them.

Thought they might not be good to eat or something.



Now the tadpoles are another story. They suck them up as soon as they hit the water.



Steve

 

[TritonGlenn]

I had a Firebelly Newt as a pet for a long time. He got nice and fat. The pet store owner said he never had seen one the size of mine, as they usually stay relatively small. When he died... my friend Paul covered him in worm mold plastic, made a mold, and poured colored replicas of him (black back, tan belly with a bit of redish / orange). The fish chomped them up in the springtime. Years later, my wife notices the same colors on a lizard while we are fishing a tournament in Alabama. She calls Paul, has him pour up some custom lizards, and proceeds to spank me from the back of my own boat with them.



Come to think of it... it's that time of year.... I gotta go call Paul.



All the best,

Glenn

 

[Bruce Freeman]

Guys,I know this won't help but I am sitting here trying not to pee myself. One of my cats is in Love with the drawing of the newt, she is smelling the screen, looking under and around it and pawing at the drawing. Scolling the screen up and down only make her more interested............................LOL



BF

 

[Mike Gersh]

funny story and well told.........:lol:

 

[Mark Hofman]

That is about the funniest thing I have read in a LONG time, and well told...WELL told...Mr. Toxic!



All that's going through my mind now is the visual overlaid with this track:



BAMP.....BAMP....BAMP....BAMP BAMP......WIIIILD THING

 

[mike chip]

im still curious where he was on anna, i have never seen a newt, especially doing the wild thing.

mike c

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Mike,



It was up Pigeon. I didn't go any closer to the splits than that. I went prospecting downlake. Caught fish most everywhere I went just nothing big. Congrats on the good finish on the Potomac by the way!! That's some gas $$ for the tin rig!!:lol:



TOXIC

 

[mike chip]

thanks toxic,

we used my mikes boat, and not to make excusses but we should have won the whole thing, mikes batteries died at noon, and would not hold a charge, so we went back to the ramp and waited for weighin.

mike c



p.s. we were at the ramp 3 hours early.

 

[William H. (Bill) Barham]

Truly funny and great story Tox!!! I think you've missed your calling! In your spare time you should sit down and concentrate on starting to write. Maybe you'd be the author who writes the great American novel? May not the great American novel but I think you'd be a great humorist author.



Uncle Billy

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Unk,



Thanks for the encouragement. I am starting to write for Yamamoto but in a more "technical" and serious style. Maybe I ought to send them some lighter side stuff.



TOXIC

 

[Mini]

I think romance novels revolving around Yamamoto baits would fit your style just fine!

 

[Tim King]

The watermelon/red senko could be the Fabio of the Yamamoto line!!:lol::wub:



Tim

 

[Bill McElroy]

Can I illustrate the BIG Tubes???:wub:

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Mac, you'll have to add a Leeeezard to you cast of characters.



TOXIC

 

[Bill McElroy]

He's already in there..........his name is Lenny!