Ed,
I'm still wating to hear back from the guy about his schedule. I emailed him like Sunday night I think and he hasn't gotten back to me yet. I don't think he likes me... But, as soon as I hear from him I'll give you a ring. If nothing else, I think I'll try to come down and take a look at it on Monday cause I don't have school. Maybe we can hook up and do something, you busy on monday? As for the senkos, they're super versatile, you can do practically anything with em, but I think they're most effective on the drop, or just sitting. I too get bored of fishing senkos, just dead sticking em, so what I do is let em sink to the bottom let em sit there for maybe 10 seconds, give it a couple twitches, let it sit for another 10 seconds or so, and then I crank it in and do it again. In my experience, I've found that 90% of the fish will come on the drop, or right after that first movement, I catch very few fish at mid retrieve, so I decided it wasn't worth the boredom.
-Brian