Flick Shake Rig

[edyer]

I haven't heard anything on this forum this spring about whether any of you use the Flick Shake rig here on Table Rock. The technique using a small, short shanked jig head with a skinny finesse worm waky rigged. Myself and a few of my buddies started using this up in Michigan with some pretty good success at different times. We also used the Flick Shake worms on our drop shot rigs. They seemed towork when throwing a regular Senko or fishing a shakey head wasn't catching fish. Even a couple of my walleye fishing friends use them dropshotted for walleyes, but also catch smallmouths and largemouths on them. The jigs and worms are pretty costly. I imagine you would lose a lot of them fishing the structure you have here. We plan on trying here this year. Do they carry the product at any of the local tackle stores in Kimberling City or at BPS in Springfield? Anybody that does use them, any color preferences? The greenpumpkin candy and watermelon candy worked great on Michigan waters as well as the camo and bluegill colors.

[Bill Babler]

Edyer, this sounds like a presentation that is very similar to a shaky head and a senko cross/bred. I am sure it would work here, but for cripes sakes how many ways are there to catch these critters.

I wonder is a guy just couldn't just take a nice solf Chompers Drop/shot worm, and put it wacky style on a 1/4 oz. ball jig head and make the presentation that way?

I would for the most part rather watch grass grow, than fish a senko, but me like all fisherman, will probably have to have some of this gear.

It is just something we have been doing for years reinvented it looks like.

Get the gear and figure it out and keep us posted on how it works. After you get the bugs out of it, I'll come on board.

[Champ188]

I'm with ya on the Senko stuff Bill. Shoot, I'd rather MOW grass than fish that silly thing. But in answer to edyer's original question, yes, the Flick Shake worm and heads are available just down the road in Arkansas at Hook, Line & Sinker tackle stores in Bella Vista and Rogers. Green pumpkin and watermelon candy are local favorite colors as well.

[smallmouthjoe]

I actually use that technique quite a bit on Table Rock. It catches fish for me all through out the warm weather months and is a great alternative when everyone throwing the same thing. I usually use a three or four inch senko but have had success using a zoom finesse worm as well. The colors I prefer are watermelon seed, pumpkin seed, watermelon red or pumpkin with purple flake. Any natural color will probably do the trick.

[edyer]

I actually use that technique quite a bit on Table Rock. It catches fish for me all through out the warm weather months and is a great alternative when everyone throwing the same thing. I usually use a three or four inch senko but have had success using a zoom finesse worm as well. The colors I prefer are watermelon seed, pumpkin seed, watermelon red or pumpkin with purple flake. Any natural color will probably do the trick.

I was at the big sports/fishing show in Grand Rapids, MI last night. I did pick up some more of the Flick Shake worms there that I will bring down to Table Rock with me. I know everyone throws Senkos all over the country and they do catch fish. I would rather catch them other ways too, but in a buddy tournament, I've had my partner catch fish on the Senkos when I was throwing everything else and couldn't catch them. After a trip to Lake Amistad in Texas, I even bought some of the big 7 inch Senkos and caught some bigger fish in tournaments up here in Michigan. If my wife fishes with me, I usually put a four inch senko on for her and she always catches fish while she's working on her tan, doing nothing but letting it sit on bottom or drag behind the boat. In Texas and Louisiana, they throw a wacky rigged six inch worm like the Zoom Trick worm with a lot of success. The Flick Shake worm is just a little different, and a few times last year, it put fish in the livewell, when the Senko throwing guys couldn't catch them. Gary Yamamoto came out with a short shanked jig to use with Senkos and the Kut Tail worms, doing pretty much the same things. What's cool about fishing is that I've taken techniques I've learned on Table Rock(fishing jigs, Rogues, salt craws, and big spinner baits), drop shotting from Japan/California, shakey head from Alabama, wacky staight tail worms and Texas rigged worms from Texas/Louisiana, Senkos from Arizona, and now the Flick Shake from Japan. It's fun trying new techniques and I guess it stimulates the economy because I keep buying more stuff every year. My friends say I need therapy because I'm sick because I can't keep myself from buying more stuff. I don't smoke, use drugs, and rarely drink more than a beer or two, so I guess it's my addiction. When I was a kid my dad and I would fish with live night crawlers during the day and fish a Hula popper or Jitterbug at night. The first artificials I used were Mepps Spinners and Rapalas. We caught a lot of fish using those techniques too and I'm sure you can still do it now. But last night I brought home another bag of stuff from the sport show? Has anyone tried the Kopper Live Target crawfish crankbaits or their minow baits here on Table Rock? If not, maybe the fish will get a look at something different when I get down there in a couple of weeks? Bill Babler is responsible for getting me to order some of the Spro stickbaits he was using to catch those nice smallmouths he posted a few weeks ago. I'm a very sick man.............................