Just thought I would see what everyones favorite stick baits and wacky worms are?  I am partial to GYCB Senkos and Yum Dingers of both regular and split tail design.

I caught a monster 4lb bass on a split tail chartreuse and black Yum Dinger this week.  Surprised the heck out of me.  It was my first bass this year!  I got a late start...

yamamoto senkos and i like the zoom trick worms to wacky rig big worms
scott

I like to use a 5in watermelon -pearl yum dinger with salt they really do well at the res. that i fish at on a regular bases .

I personally use baits from a local guy in my area with his own bait company bass-et baits. He sort of sponsors me for my tournaments and stuff. His baits have incredible action and keep their scent for a lot longer than other baits I have seen. As far as main market stuff, I like Yum Dingers. Yamamotos are way to easily ripped and destroyed in my experience. Usualy won't last me but a few fish.

My biggest bass came from a Watermelon/red flake 6" Yum Dinger...rigged wacky style! 

Never heard of a "stick bait" before. I had to Google it and im still not sure what exactly it is you mean by that. Nobody in my part of the country has ever talked about "stick baits." It must be geographically specific terminology. If it's what I think it is, you must mean a Senko or a similarly shaped soft plastic lure? And yeah if it is, I can't reveal which ones I use!

Well, I believe in this thread they are referring to stick worms as stick baits...but it's actually another one of those interchangeable fishing terms. Around here a "stick bait" is a Rapala floating minnow or Smithwick Rogue(which are also called jerk baits and minnow baits). Then there are soft plastic jerk baits...jeez...where does it end?
                                                                                           

Posted By mo65 on 28 Dec 2011 08:09 AM
Well, I believe in this thread they are referring to stick worms as stick baits...but it's actually another one of those interchangeable fishing terms. Around here a "stick bait" is a Rapala floating minnow or Smithwick Rogue(which are also called jerk baits and minnow baits). Then there are soft plastic jerk baits...jeez...where does it end?
                                                                                           

Ha ha it's like learning a new language!

It is like learning a language, and one with many regional dialects to boot! If you ask for a soda on the east coast or in the south, you will get Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up and the like. Ask for a soda around Chicago and it will have ice cream, soda water and a flavoring (usually fruit) and no ice! When my folks lived in Florida, their neighbor invited me to go speck fishing with him. I expected speckled trout and got crappie! Yeah, Mo, to me a stick bait is an original Rapala or the like.

Like everyone else... Yum dinger. As far as stick baits go I love a lunker city slug go.

I love catching bass on senkos and kinamis, but for the one or two fish I catch before the lure is torn to help it seems expensive. I like jogger worms, although they're a little less effective, I had a day in Oct I caught over 25 fish on 1 worm. That never would have happened w a senko.

I bought a big box of those Cabela's stick worms on sale, and I can honestly say they work nowhere as good as dingers or senkos. They do feel a little stiffer...maybe that's it...in the water they don't have the right action. All I can tell you is bites fell off dramatically with those worms!