Thread: Ned Rig soft plastics not just for bass

A few years ago I looked down on a Senko stick lure and thought, the tips of the lure are without any action tail such as a curl tail, flat thin tail, thin rat- tail or Sassy Shad foot shaped tail. I've caught bass on the Senko so figured that a mini version of it might catch everything including bass.

This was the original mini-stick that caught fish the first time is was cast. Note the wacky rigged jig.

A light jig head is needed to allow the tips of the lure to quiver all the way to the bottom or twitched mid-depth, unlike the Senko which has salt weighing it down. It can be 1/16 oz or lighter and stick length can be 1-2.5" or for big crappie or other species 3" but still thin. A mold is not needed to make a mini-stick. Here I melted the tips of two grubs together and wacky rigged them after cutting off the curl tails:

...same tip quiver, same 7 species of fish caught. Note: I held a light to the ends to blunt them.

The mini-stick / blunt-tail grub can also be rigged the usual way with the blunt end at the rear of the lure:

(note the iridescent glitter glued to the surface for a bit of flash)

That's not to say that they outproduce other soft plastic designs but that they catch fish as well as the best of them.
* Someone on another forum suggested the photos were fake seeing as how the lures were reattached to the outside of the mouths.
I keep photo logs stored by lake and date as well as in lure folders that have category subfolders showing fish and lure used to catch them.
A photo of a lure inside a fish's mouth is of no use for record keeping reminders. Won't be posting there again!

I've wondered about what lures look like to fish but still don't have a clue. All I know is that fish when in the right mode or at the right activity level, are prone to striking most of Snake's lure designs in most colors basically because of their subtle motion, size and shape combinations. Giving names to or labeling things are what humans do, whether to remember objects or give descriptive names that are relevant to an object such as: fish strike because model X moves like or resembles something. When we say something appears natural, it's like adding a title to a book or a name to a recipe that says nothing about the content of either.

Simply stated: (IMO) anglers try to get any one of a range of lures close as possible to fish just in case they are - in the mood to tango. That's it. Turned off - it doesn't matter what I cast.