Thread: Wacky rig: Saving senkos and cents

Problem 1: Senkos are not cheap!
Problem 2: Traditional wacky rigged worms are easily destroyed.
Problem 3: The clever o-ring wacky rig is not cheap!

Here's a cheap, local solution.

1: Raid your desk drawer and find a large (executive sized) ball-point pen. The pen should be large enough for the senko to slide into. Remove the guts and the top keeping the bottom cylinder. A good source of oversized pens could be your local pharmacist, they seem to get funky pens from reps all the time. Ask one if they have any tired pens.

2: Run down to Builder's Warehouse or the like and pick up a couple of small rubber o-rings (usually R1 a piece) You'll know the size required when you see them, but they're usually the smallest on the shelf. Look in the plumbing dept.

3: Place the tail of the senko in the pen cylinder and roll the o-ring on from the narrow end. Roll it all the way up and onto the senko. Thread the hook between the o-ring and senko and pull the o-ring up the worm until it is centered (usually two or three ribs below the egg-sac). SEE ATTACHED IMAGE.

4: Fish!!

A hell of a lot cheaper than imported wacky rigging tools.

I wonder how many of our more "expensive" toys can be replaced with stuff from builders. Great idea. On my next visit to builders will make a point of getting some o-rings.

Terminator and myself spoke about this the other day.

Instead of destroying your pen, use the spout you get when you buy a tube of silicone from your local harware store. The senko fits nicely in there as well.

Some good ideas guys, and at builders they sometimes have a box of those spare silicon spouts that you can just pick up and dont even have to pay for.

The fellow in the USA who showed me how to use the whacky rig stopped using the senkos because they were so brittle due to the very high salt content and continued to break.

He moved over to the softer Zoom trick and finesse worms with no O ring and had no reduction in his success rate.

I fished with him, he is a machine catching around 2000 bass per year using this technique. He uses a bead counter on his boat and logs every trip that he makes. Let me know if any of you are heading down West Virgina way and I'll introduce you.

thanks for the info