TACKLE

THE SILKIE

By Scott Seibert

New this year and one of the hottest panfish baits around. It is great fished alone on a bait or tip it with a few euro larva/spikes, wax worm or adding Maki plastic with the Silkie works awesome, my favorite Maki is a 1” Mino white with red flakes or a red is good also.

Most of the time it will catch fish all by itself. The silk like strands just float around in the water with little jigging motion.

It is very easy to install on the hook just put your hook through the rubber ball in the center and slide it all the way to the head of the hook. I will also rotate it in the up and down position, so the top silk covers the hook.

Two of my favorite jigs are the Clam drop kick and the Drop jig rigged with a Silke. Red glow and Gold are two of my favorite colors. I have been having good luck with the Black in color and White/Red combo.

My thought is the fish think the Silkies look like the nature microorganisms, water bugs, back swimmers that are swimming around in the waters.

I have caught blue gills, crappies, bass and pike on these so far this year. Next on the agenda is to try to see if I can get walleyes to bite on them. Stay tuned on this.

The durability of the Silkie is outstanding I can catch 40-50 or more fish on one Silkie itself.

If I forgot my live bait at home, I would still go on my fishing trip without it as I am very confident in the Silkie for catching fish.

Safe Fishing,

Scott Seibert