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| Everyone seems to work certain baits a certain way. To the best of your ability please explain what you prefer your jerkbaits to do in the water.
What is basicly your confident jerkbait presentation! |
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| Accelerate, flash, turn, and HANG.
If you got that... you will catch fish with your jerkbaits. However, my personal favorite jerkbait dance can only be achieved with a crankbait (I presume everyone knows which one I'm thinking of too - heh heh). The crankbait provides better depth control and neutral bouyancy allows total SPEED control as well. If a bait is sinking or floating on the pause... you've just lost your CONTROL over the situation.
But... my favorite dance includes acceleration, flash, turn, and pause.
I'm sure some will argue all you need is the acceleration.... but you asked for our own personal preference in the dance step[:halo:]
jlong |
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| Clearly the jerk bait dance is a very "personal" act. There are alot of variables involved,including, but not limited to:total consumption of liquids, distance to nearest releaving site, current music playing on cd player, air temp, and water temp. warm water, tear it up. Cold water, ssllooww it down. It's alot like Doing the HOKEY-POKEY![:sun:] |
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| I have two personal favorites.
The up/down movement of a Suick style bait is something really like in the fall. If you can tune these to get a little side action even better.
During the spring and through the summer I like what a well tuned Burt does..."down and to the side" if ya got a good one you can almost twitch it to get it to flash. I have a few Burts that I've customized to "hang" and I think that is the key, they most always hit it just on the pause.
Hawgseeker Tackle's new Hawg Dancer should be a good one too.
I am however really excited about 2 new crank'n/jerks for this year... The triple D and the Squirly Jakes (cusomized to hang) should absolutely kick some serious tail.. Been playing with the Jakes in the bath tub and got one to hang oh so pretty. Wife just shakes her head when she walks by the bathroom...[8)]
"Esox Rock, bring on the bite"
Curly
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| I`ll bite with the CRANK`IN UNDERWARETAKER! Soon as its hits the water,one good sharp jerk downward then a swift reel crank(1 full turn)slight pause then another and another all the way back to the boat!Every fish caught last season hit before the bait made the boat,never 8`ed one fish with that lure/retrive(good thing to cause they don`t 8 so great.I think its definatly the speed! Handy |
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| I love a bait that will turns, hangs and yes the acceleration is a good trigger too, but if I can't get a glider to roll a bit to show its belly I will quickly lose confidence in it.
My favorite gliders have a variety of erratic movements unique to each and everyone. Some of them glide real wide, others combine the wide glides with darts up and down, while still others have a real tight side to side action. The only action that is similar in all of them is a rolling motion that exposes the belly of the bait to a following fish. |
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| Widow Maker's T-Bone. Slack line hits makes it do head stands, then it swaps ends before the rise. Deadly at the weed edge. Good for at least 20 fish in 2002. But the Bulldawg, with fast rips. seems to do magic when all else fails. |
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| I do the ZZ TOP Slide!
Easy on the sauce, and bear down on the meat.
:)
T.
www.muskytomsguideservice.com |
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| I've got a 10 year old custom Slammer Jerkbait which acts like a cross between a old Gries Striker Jerkbait and an "old" style Suick. Under ideal conditions it comes in about 5'-6' down and glides 12"-18" side to side. I let it rise at the boat. Strikes and follows can occur anywhere during the retrieve.
If I ever lose it, just put into a mental health clinic
because I will clinically depressed![:((] [:bigsmile:] |
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| I'll vary my "Dance" based on what I think the fish want. I've found at a given depth, the more bouyant baits twitched quicker stay in the strike zone and trigger more aggresive fish with the faster retrieve. I tend to use this approach when trying to locate fish. The bucktail "run-and-gun" version of jerkbaits. |
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| I think Jlong's description is a good one. I like to make the non gliding jerkbaits blow out or even spin out of what would be percieved their normal action.
I have a few that work for me. One is a hard jolt. Smack it hard and fast and then pause. Works great on the Zalt. Another one is a very hard 2ft rip and pause. Works grat on jerkbaits. Another one is for gliders and snap it back and forth as fast as you can, tiring but you would be suprised at the results. Works great on 6" phantoms, magic makers and crazy shads. |
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| GLIDE AND ROLL. nothing is better period. [:praise:] |
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What jerkbait dance catches fish for you?