One of the BEST Winter Baits for Bass Fishing (Fishing Tips)

[Music] what's up guys and welcome back to another video today i'm going to show you guys how to catch bass whenever they just won't bite no matter what time of the year it is i use this technique it's really deadly in the winter you know the water gets cold and the bite gets really tough you can't get a bite with a texas rig can't get a bite with a crank bait on some days them days when it's really tough and you just cannot get a bite you've been fishing for hours if you use this tip you'll probably get a bite all right so let's jump right into it please hit the thumbs up drop comment down below don't forget to subscribe if you found this video helpful let's go all right guys first things first you see i've got a spinning rod here so whenever the bike gets tough i always downsize i always finesse or either i go big i go to one or the other end of the spectrum i'll go big throw a giant swim bait a huge texas rig worm or i'll downsize so what i've done today i've downsized this is a pc fun surf and spinning rod it's a medium action with an extra fast tip perfect for drop shotting it's got that stiff tip on it so you can give it quick fast little pops if you need to and i've got my viper x 1000 spinning reel here link to the sweet spin rails in the description below it's only like 40 bucks i have 15 pound yellow high vis braided line i think it's suffix braided i'm not sure what brand and i've got a 12 pound suffix 100 fluorocarbon leader on here now this is a five foot leader and the way i judge my leader length after i tie the knot i'll reel it all the way down to right here and then i'll pull it out of the top of my rod tip to where it's about how far i'm gonna cast and i'll tie my hook right there that way you're not reeling that knot down into your reel because if you have too long of a leader and you're rolling that knot down to the reel one it's gonna put more damage on the knot but two it hinders your casting all right now let's get to the rest of the rig this is a size two wacky rig hook it's a weedless wacky rig hook and paired with it i've got an 8 ounce tungsten now guys i get all my tungstens from the same place if you get 40 or more you get free shipping so i'll buy 40 worth of tungsten it'll last me six months and then i'll buy some more but you can find them online and put the link down below to tungstens now if you guys don't know this bait you haven't been fishing very long if you haven't been fishing very long it's a great bait to learn with i started with this little bait here the actual senko this is an actual senko it's not a knockoff stick bait i started with this when i was about 12 years old when it first come out i caught all kind of bass with it now let me tell you why the senko is more deadly than the other baits you know a lot of people know the senko works but they don't know why the reason is because that senko is heavily salt impregnated so it has a different action and whenever it gets cold the water gets cold those baits like say the zoom trick worm they don't have as much salt in them and the bait doesn't flex as much when it's cold now in warm water it'll have a little bit more action but in cold water the senko that's heavily salt impregnated is still going to have more action and that salt and pregnation gives it more weight so it sinks faster now when this thing sinks if you have it wacky rig hook the side of it is going to flutter like that all right that is how you get the bites for this thing making it flutter but i'm gonna take the sink over here there's some chartreuse dye and i'm gonna dip just the tip of it into that chartreuse die and i mean just the tip that's probably actually a little bit too much there i wanted to dip about half of that much but my chartreuse die it's kind of low here so it's hard to be accurate when you're working with the bottom of the barrel all right that's a little bit better still a little bit more than what i wanted there you really got to be careful with this die i guess everywhere all right i take my senko there and i stick my hook right in the middle of it and i like to hook it until i get it dead center point so what i mean by dead center point is that bait is hanging evenly on both sides all right just put my little weed guard down now the reason i've got a weed guard on here you probably don't need this if you're fishing rocky bottom but in the south we got a lot of grass a lot of weeds so with the weed guard i can fish it through the grass and not get hung up or i can fish it through timber or sticks or lay downs and what this little weight does that you probably didn't realize also it deflects cover so if you're pulling this thing through the water like that that point on that weight right there is going to act and hit the cover first or grass and deflect it as if you didn't have that weight there say you're pulling this into some grass and that grass is going to get caught right there and it's not going to shake off with the weight it's going to deflect the grass and the timber stuff a little bit better now you don't want to go too big of a weight let's say if you put on like a quarter ounce regular weight or something that's uh any bigger size than this you don't want the size to be bigger than that whether it's a tungsten or regular weight you want it to be about that size if you're using this small of a hook and the reason why is if a bass comes up and grabs that you go to set the hook and the weight is too big that weight is going to open that bass's mouth and you're going to miss him with that hook so you want a tiny weight or if you're using a peg weight you can peg the weight up here that'll prevent that but let me show you guys how to fish this all right now i've shown you guys how to rig this bait i'm gonna show you how i fish it when the conditions are really tough in the winter and the fall when the water gets cold i like throw it out let it sink all the way to the bottom with that weight on there especially if i've got a rocky or a hard bottom i like to do is just kind of pull it and just barely drag the bottom just pull it real slow and fill it dragging that bottom and then if it gets some grass hung up on it and i feel like i'm not getting it off with the next pull i'll give it a little pop and shake that grass off and let it fall back down basically working this making super super slow you guys see right now it's really windy so right now is not ideal conditions to do this ideal conditions would be let's say there's no wind it's super sunny you can't get a bite if anything at all i would resort to this but right now with windy and cloudy i'm gonna fish a little bit different a little bit faster pull it up really fast and then let it fall again and i don't know what it is about that fluttering action that fast but it draws those bass in almost like a paddle tail swim bait does you know whenever the water's cold the bass like something that's got a tight wobble paddle tail swimbait has got a smaller uh flutter action with that tail so does the senko whenever you hook it in the side and you pull it like this now keep in mind guys too if you're fishing with a weight when you throw that out if the weight's not pegged that weight is going to sink first so once the weight you'll feel the weight hit the bottom that bait the senko will still be above the weight and be fluttering down to the bottom so i like to give it time to settle on the bottom and a lot of times after that weight hits while it's still sinking i'll get the bite and as soon as you tighten your line for the first time you feel if you do feel it's in grass once again keep in mind that bait is still sinking especially if you're using braid you'll feel it the senko pull up to the bait the owner you let go of it dang so i threw it out the weight had hit the bottom and the senko was still sinking and i felt the fish pick it up and grab it of course i missed him no he's still on there he's running out towards the middle with it just gotta look at him he's swimming towards me guys this is a good one right here dad jump son come on up here now yeah it's a good one there we go there we go now oh he got off i was trying to take it really easy with him guys because with these senkos they come off the hook they rip off the hook so easy so i was trying to kind of keep him down where he didn't throw it off the hook i was gonna let him go anyway so it really didn't matter but that is how you fish the senko and catch fish when they're being difficult if you guys found this video helpful please hit the thumbs up drop a comment down below and if you want to see more how-to stuff comment down below what kind of how-to or what how-to you want to see i'll do my best to get that out too we'll see you again next time [Music] hey