Stick bait (Senko-style)

A fat, tail-less, salt-heavy worm that shimmies on its own as it sinks — the bait that catches bass doing nothing, on wacky, Neko and weightless Texas rigs.

Soft plastics are the biggest family in bass fishing: 36 shapes, each designed for a rig, a depth and a mood.

• Shape = design purpose: fish, worm, craw, creature, tube, frog
• Finesse tier vs power tier: the same shape at 3.5 in and 7 in is two different techniques
• Tail type decides the action; body decides the fall
• Rig it the way it was designed to be rigged

1. What it is — A cylindrical worm, slightly tapered, dense with salt so it sinks level and quivers from both ends. No tail, no appendages: the action is the body.
2. Designed for — Shallow bass that need a slow, horizontal fall: wacky-rigged on open water and docks, Neko-rigged for depth, Tex-posed weightless around grass and wood. 3-4 in is the…
3. Trade-offs — Slow — one cast takes a minute — and the salt makes it tear; you go through a bag a day.