BPS Stick-O > Senko

Catching fish just as good for a third of the price..... Can I get an Amen?!?!

Like some of the unique color options also

Knock offs work good until you get to the heavily pressured places like Fork, then you better bust out the real things.

I am a big fan of the Stick-O. I used to use YUM dingers and the big bite baits stick worms but the BPS Sick-O is much better.

Now I will say, I think the GY Senko is still a little better. I don't know why but I seem to still get a few more bites on the GY baits.

Has anyone used the Strike King Shim-E-Stick baits?

I know for a fact the knock offs work just as good on Toledo Bend and it has had a ton of pressure the last several years.

They work well also.
I've tested many different brands of stick baits, and the Shim-E-stick has a fast fall relative to many others; but, not much wobble or glide.

Other then them being a lot cheaper and lasting a little longer I haven't noticed any difference between them and the Senko. Plus wasn't the Senko kind of a knock-off of the Slugo?

It's not even close.

Senko weighs more and has way more action on the fall.

I think a real Senko is the way to go. If a bag of worms costs $2 more than the knock offs, and it can win me money...then $2 is cheap insurance.

GY Senko's have inflated prices. Your paying for a brand, and for an inferior worm. They don't "catch bass better", not even on highly pressured lakes, where the hundreds of thousands of bass have "seen every lure". A black bass doesn't know the difference between a GY Senko, a Big Bite Tiki Stik, or a BPS Stik-O.

You can buy x25 packs of Big Bites for $5-$6.

Just add a bullet weight to the cheap ones and catch away! With a weight there's no difference!

No sir. The original Sluggo is still a great bait but the action is WAY different. The Sluggo is designed to be twitched hard a couple times then allowed to glide to the bottom like an injured minnow. The Zoom Fluke is designed to mimic this action.

The Senko has a unique wobbling action as it falls in a horizontal position weightless.

I've thrown and caught fish on many different brands of stick baits, and have a fishing buddy who swears by the Big Bite trick stick. If I'm throwing one on a C rig or a T rig, I'll throw a dinger or a trick stick but weightless... I don't think you can deny that the original senko has a far superior action to the others. If you watch it on the fall, the tail has a subtle side to side wiggle that I don't see in the other brands.

Agreed. But without a weight...different story

Spend away what ever you like but fish just ain't that smart.
J D

The Senko was one of the rare baits not based on another bait etc.

Not sure what happened to this guy but he did some good videos to compare baits. This shows why the Yamamoto Senko gets bit better than most knock-offs. Not saying the others won't get bit but you can clearly see the difference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation...p;v=nH9xdnUXjXM

That's ole Rob ! he is a local guy and still makes video's all the time , he is one of those famous YouTube guys !
As for worms I tend to buy the Senkos.