Move over Senko I want to play too!

It’s no secret, I love the Gary Yamamoto Senko Worm. It’s been a proven bait that has brought me and thousands of others awesome results. Senko upon its inception has been synonymous with versatility, it’s well renown for it’s ability to be fished in a variety of ways. Between you and me though, I’ve never quite cared for all of the fancy rigs. Sure I know they work, but for me there’s only one way I find myself fishing a Senko worm and it’s always been about the wacky rig.

It's live bait scented, salt impregnated, wacky rigging goodness in a bag!

So think of my excitement when I heard about the Jackall Flick Shake system. This system is made up of a Jackal Flick Shake Worm designed by famed lure designer Seiji Kato to work specifically with the Jackall Wacky Jig Head. It’s wacky rigging pureness, and I’ve been dying to try it out. I was lucky enough to pick up a fresh pack in Pumpkin Pepper color at The River Rat. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to pick up the fancy Jackall Wacky Jig Head, as it’s been a hot and hard to find item.

None the less there was fishing to be done, so I threw the Flick Shake Worm on the rock solid Gamakatsu Finesse Wide Gap Hook and got to work. Right away i noticed the Flick Shake had a great fluttering action to it. In the 5.8 inch variety It lacks the girth that the Senko has, this significantly reduces the stiffness in the Flick Shake giving it awesome wobbling action on the downfall. It wasn’t too long after this observation that I caught my first Flick Shake bass.

My first bass caught with the Jackall Flick Shake!

Within a matter of minutes the Flick Shake had proven itself. After the obligatory photo op I released the bronze beauty back into the mouth of Oneida Lake. It was no sooner in doing so that I was fighting another fish on my Pumpkin Pepper Flick Shake. Man alive! this one felt stronger, and it was.

I barely released my first fish and I was already fighting this even bigger smallmouth!

So it’s safe to say at this point that I was loving the Jackal Flick Shake. I was hammering beautiful bass and this is without the Wacky Jig Head which is supposed to really add the fluttering twitchy action to this intriguing worm. It was only minutes after releasing this big mama that I had yet another, yes another fish on the line.

I hold up my final fish of the day, which also happens to be the first largemouth of the adventure.

The icing on the cake ended up being this nice largemouth which was hooked perfectly on the outside lip. It was a great way to end my half hour-ish of fishing. I was freezing cold from the whipping wind, and people around me were starting to get jealous (aka Juice). I packed up shop and decided to move out.

On the drive home I couldn’t stop thinking about how viscous the Flick Shake had been. I’m impatiently looking forward to picking up a pack of the Jackall Wacky Jig Heads at The River Rat when they’re back in stock. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled here at Angling Analysis for a featured review on the Jackall Flick Shake as well as an exclusive video comparison of both the Senko and the Flick Shake in action. In the short term my recommendation is to get to your local tackle shop and pick these up now. Based on my short experience it seems the hype behind the Flick Shake is more than justified.