Now I'm a believer!!!

[keithdog]

I had never used a Senko style bait in my life. I would look at the various brands of baits like the Senko's and wonder what the hell a bass would ever see in one of those lifeless looking baits? They looked like nothing but a useless stick to me. Well I have read so many articles about how deadly they are, and here is this forums, they are obviously well liked. So I decided to stop at Walmart yesterday morning and pick up a package to try. I ended up buying the black and red Tiki Bamboo Sticks in the 5 inch size. Tonight I had a 45 minute window to dash to the lake and try those baits out before dark. So off I dashed with one spinning outfit and my package of Tikis. I used a 6 1/2 foot med heavy action rod, 12 pound mono and rigged my Tiki stick Texas style and weightless on a Gamakatsu 3/0 offshank worm hook. I was there in 5 minutes and began trekking the shoreline to a spot where I knew there was a large tree branch that hung well out over the water with lilly pads nearby. My second flip under the branch and I was landing a nice chunky 3 pounder!!! To make a long story shorter, in 30 minutes I caught 3 nice bass on those "useless looking" Tiki worms. Now I'm hooked. I wasn't sure if I even had a chance of catching anything as there were severe storms that rampaged through the area last night bringing three tornados within a half hour from here and golfball size hail along with tons of lightning. It rained most of the day today as well. But those weird little sticks of plastic worked great!!! Time to place an order with Beckys My Mom and get some of his baits to try. I'm glad I listened to you guys. Now I'm a believer.

[ROBZILLA]

See now you got the tiki gods on your side nothing can touch you now!

mmmmmuuuuuahahahahahahahahahahahahaahah! (evil laugh)

[keithdog]

HAHAHA, How I hope your right Robzilla. I gotta admit, I felt like I had no idea what I was doing at first when it came to retrieving the Tiki. So I just flipped it out, let it sink to the botton and using my rod tip, just slowly twitched it a couple twitches and took up the slack. Also I would hold the rod in one hand and using the free hand, I held the line and gave the bait soft little tugs to make it dance in one spot. Seemed to work. Anyone else have a diferent retrieve they use?

[Vabass22]

Try every thing you can think of, I like to put half of one on a jighead, and bang it super slowly along the bottom.

[ToPwAt'R GuY]

I usually wacky rig it and either deadstick it or fish it under a bobber.

[rrw4258]

try texas rigging them with a 1/16 to a 1/8 ounce weight... i just go back today (it was 96 degrees out with the humidity very high), tried rat-l-traps, crankbaits, spinnerbaits in the heat of the day and nothing... threw on a tiki with an 1/8 oz. bullet weight and got 15 bass in 1 hour, the biggest being a little over 4 lbs... anbody who has not tried this you WILL Regret it!!!!

Ryan

[Rebbasser]

MOLOPO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the party, Keith!

There really isn't a way to fish them wrong. 99% of the time I fish them rigged weedless and weightless or wacky. The other 1% I throw them on a C-rig.

[PowerBass]

I love tikis. They catch tons of fish. Flip em, pitch em, t rigged wiht a 3/16oz bullet weight is deadly, wacky, jig trailer C-Rig, Split Shot, Drop shot, got get um!

[Snake2715]

Just dont get discouraged if they dont produce everytime for you!

[flamez]

ewww bamboo sticks and only on a 3/0 hook i use a 5/0 even on regular tiki sticks try senkos in watermelon candy with the chart. tipped tail

one word DEADLY!!