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Basstard · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Newington, CT

Flick Shakin'........ have any of you guys tried this?? Last spring I took my bud Tim fishing at Mansfield Hollow for what i think was probably like his third time bass fishing ever..... when we went fishing previously he did well on a wacky rigged senko...so naturally he wanted to throw it again.... so i told he to go in my tackle box and rig one up..... I turn around a minute later to make sure he rigged it properly and i realize that he grabbed a jighead instead of a worm hook and wacky rigged the senko. I kinda laughed to myself at how ridiculous it looked. (I would have bet money that he wouldn't catch anything) For some reason I didnt stop him. I just let him fish. He ended catching a couple 2lbers on it. I thought it was just a fluke. Then I open up April's Bassmaster magazine and there is a whole article on this new technique!! hahaha I guess I had this all wrong. Have any you guys tried this..... If so, how did you do?

RaMPaGeBaSsMaN · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 100 Location: West hartford

Yea i saw that rig i guess the Japanese first came out with it i used it a few times this year not much luck i do love to do sum thing with those jig heads and certin plastics.. Wink

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stumpy · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 395 Location: northford

i have seen this numerous times in the last couple of years on Linders angling edge. they seem to do it along weedlines. it doesnt appear that you really need a special jighead for this.

Basstard · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Newington, CT

The article on flick shakin' in this month's Bassmaster magazine made it sound like this is gonna be the next big deal. Kind of like the drop shot. It even said "move over dropshot, flick shakin' is here"..... I thought that was a bold statement. I think i might try this my next time out. I didn't realize this has been around for a while already. This article was the first i heard of it.

Just4fun · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 1389 Location: Saybrook

This is supposed to be a big deal in Japan right now. It is a combination of a jighead with a relatively short-shanked hook and thin/pretty flexible worms that really move easily in the water and look very alive when they are twitched so that the jig-head essentially rocks up and down.
The "real" jigheads for this are tungsten and cost an arm and a leg. I'm not sure they need to be tungsten,..but the other thing they have is a high quality hook. It's tough to find that in small jigheads.

Anyway,..my experience so far has been that they do catch fish,..however in the cold water right now, the pickeral like them more than the bass do,..and I can tell you from experience that it's a real bummer to lose $2 tungsten jigheads on successive casts to the toothy critters! Rolling Eyes

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Basstard · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 55 Location: Newington, CT

yeah....that tungsten sure is expensive.