Best Wacky Rig Reel

Water temp was just under 80 when we hit the water and then we got slammed with some hard rain, not much wind. Cooled the water down a bit at the surface and made for an interesting bite. All but one of our keepers were on wacky rigs. The biggest was on a rat-l-trap at the end of the night. Caught a couple on frogs, swim baits and a BFS popper. I bent out a hook on a big one (damaged the hook earlier extracting it from a dog fish and should have replaced it). We ended up with just under 8lbs w/ 4 fish. 1st-3rd were all right under 9lbs.

Timothy Skinnell reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Wacky Rigs technique and Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel - EOL on Claytor Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Cought multiple fish underdocks let the senko go to the bottom an soak mastiff held up great this fish me had me wrapped up under a dock an I still managed to get it out an land it "

Toolman Tim reported catching Spotted Bass using the Wacky Rigs technique and Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel - EOL on W Kerr Scott Reservoir. Additional comments from this report: "Found them in the morning around the 268 bridge overpass. Fished a wacky senko around the bridge pilings and rip rap"

I fished a kayak bass tournament on Big Lake. The lake is surrounded by docks and has a great amount of vegetation and pads in the northwest end. I had some initial success with texas rigged worms along the pads until some river otters showed up. Later in the day was able to find bass using weedless wacky rigs on the edges of submerged vegetation, docks and brush piles.

Ron Dohm Jr reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Wacky Rigs technique and Daiwa Tatula LT Spinning Reel - EOL on Lake Michigan. Additional comments from this report: "Zero wind this day made the prespawn smallmouth extra cautious. Utilizing the long rod and a slow falling bait was crucial to my clients getting bites. The little bigger hook on the set up helped the bait fall purely and helped on hooks at the end of a cast our 30+yds. A key move was when one of the guys hooked up the other cast right at that same spot. This resulted in the double in this picture."

Justin Logan reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Wacky Rigs technique and Daiwa Tatula LT Spinning Reel - EOL on Lake Marion . Additional comments from this report: "Look for bedding fish in the back waters, but be sure not to overlook the docks as well as some fish will spawn around them. Braided line to a fluorocarbon leader on spinning gear works best and allows you to skip in to tight areas. "

Tim reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Wacky Rigs technique and Daiwa Fuego LT Spinning Reel on Acton Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Buzz bait followed up by a wacky rig. "

Shane Flint Outdoors reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Wacky Rigs technique and Daiwa Fuego LT Spinning Reel on Lake Mooney. Additional comments from this report: "Picked up around 50 Bass on Mooney fishing the Senko around brush and trees in 6-8 feet of water. The bass are in post spawn mode and are about to make the push to their summer feedgin areas. If there is a piece of cover in 6-8 feet their was a bass around them. "

Steve Wise reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Wacky Rigs technique and Daiwa Fuego LT Spinning Reel on Rappahannock River. Additional comments from this report: "Took my Old Town Sportsman 120PDL kayak in the Rappahannock river. I had an incoming tide and even though the outgoing tide produces better, I still managed to catch a couple. I was fishing a weightless wacky rigged yum dinger (June bug). "